{
  "patent_number": "US 8862582",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Computers Automatically Organize and Search Photos Using Contextual Data",
  "original_title": "System and method of organizing images",
  "summary": "A system for indexing images by attaching descriptive data to objects within them and adjusting search rankings based on how often a user searches for those specific items.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a method for making photo libraries smarter by attaching 'scene description information'—such as audio, device orientation, or object detection data—to images. It creates a data structure where each object identified in a photo is assigned a weight, which determines how relevant that object is to a search. Crucially, the system tracks a user's search habits and updates these weights over time. For example, if you frequently search for 'dog,' the system increases the weight of 'dog' objects in your photos, making them appear higher in search results.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover simple image tagging based solely on manual user input.",
    "Does not cover geographic-based image sorting, as the claims explicitly state the weights are independent of location.",
    "Does not cover basic image retrieval that lacks the specific 'infinite array' data structure for object weights.",
    "Does not cover image processing that does not incorporate user search history to modify object weights."
  ],
  "filed": "2007-11-15",
  "granted": "2014-10-14",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "AT&T Intellectual Property I LP",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/att-intellectual-property-i-lp",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Charles Blewett",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/charles-blewett"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gregory T. Vesonder",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/gregory-t-vesonder"
    },
    {
      "name": "Enrico Bocchieri",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/enrico-bocchieri"
    },
    {
      "name": "Thomas Killian",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/thomas-killian"
    },
    {
      "name": "Thomas Kirk",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/thomas-kirk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/giuseppe-di-fabbrizio"
    },
    {
      "name": "David Kormann",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/david-kormann"
    },
    {
      "name": "Donnie Henderson",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/donnie-henderson"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 2,
  "tags": [
    "software",
    "ai_ml",
    "consumer_electronics"
  ],
  "abstract": "Disclosed are a system, method and computer-readable medium for organizing images. A method aspect relates to receiving an image into a device, receiving incidental information associated with the image, organizing the image and the incidental information into a data structure such as a sparse array, classifying the received image with an image classifier and storing the classified image in an image database, receiving a search query and responding to the search query by searching for and retrieving matching images in the image database based on a comparison of the image search query to the data structure.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8862582/amazon-redshift",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8862582/amazon-redshift/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8862582",
  "relatedPatents": []
}