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Patent number 7,945,653 titled Tagging digital media has been accepted and assigned to Facebook. Here’s the critical first independent claim: “A method comprising: receiving from a device of a first user a selection of an item of digital media, wherein the item of digital media is stored in a database; receiving from the device of the first user an identification of a person associated with the selected item of digital media; responsive to receiving the information identifying the person, sending a notification to a device of a second user that the person has been identified in connection with the item of digital media; and enabling the identified person to reject the identification, wherein the identified user is different from the first user.”

You can find the whole blog entry at http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/facebook-gets-broad-patent-on-digital-media-tagging/10693