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May 17, 2011 09:05 pm

Facebook's Broad Patent On Digital Media Tagging

bizwriter writes "Facebook has done well with the Friendster patents and patent applications that it acquired. Just last week, a patent application for passing personal info between users based on degrees of separation became public. Now, thanks to the Friendster IP purchase, Facebookpretty much owns the technology for publicly identity-tagging digital media of any sort in a database."

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