ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,997, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).
"Filter for camera upload" was invented by Qimeng Li (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for automatically selecting a subset of photos to be backed up by an intelligent photo upload service provided by a content management system. The intelligent photo upload service is provided to a client application on a client device that uses one or more machine-learning models to determine which photos have the one or more attributes. The photos that have been determined to have the one or more attributes may be uploaded. Once upl...