System for creating messages including image information
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1. A system for processing and sharing digital images over a network, comprising:
- a server computer having;
at least one CPU, a storage device, an input interface for receiving user information from a client computer over the network, and a communications interface adapted for exchange of information between computers, the CPU adapted by a program to;
input user information from the input interface, the user information including electronic image data and at least one email address of a recipient;
store the user information in the storage device;
process the electronic image data;
generate a display including at least a portion of the processed electronic image data;
associate a uniform resource locator (URL) with the display;
create an email message that includes the URL associated with the display notifying the recipient that the display is available for viewing; and
send the email message via the communications interface to the recipient for retrieval at a recipient computer to allow the at least one recipient to view the display using the URL.
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Abstract
A system for creation of an image display such as an electronic postcard. The system interacts with a user to create and configure the display. The user provides the image data to the system and optionally specifies a message and addressee for the image display. The system creates the display, comprising a mixture of image and textual data, and sends a notification including identification of the display to a specified addressee, for instance, the recipient of the postcard. The addressee can then request receipt of the display from the system via the identification information sent by the system.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for processing and sharing digital images over a network, comprising:
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a server computer having;
at least one CPU, a storage device, an input interface for receiving user information from a client computer over the network, and a communications interface adapted for exchange of information between computers, the CPU adapted by a program to;
input user information from the input interface, the user information including electronic image data and at least one email address of a recipient;
store the user information in the storage device;
process the electronic image data;
generate a display including at least a portion of the processed electronic image data;
associate a uniform resource locator (URL) with the display;
create an email message that includes the URL associated with the display notifying the recipient that the display is available for viewing; and
send the email message via the communications interface to the recipient for retrieval at a recipient computer to allow the at least one recipient to view the display using the URL. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
scaling, rotating, centering, mirroring, filtering, formatting, compressing, decompressing, color correcting, compositing, cropping, blurring, captioning, adding motifs, adding visual effects and combinations thereof.
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7. The system of claim 1 wherein the CPU is further adapted to transmit the display in response to a request from the recipient computer received via the communications interface that includes the URL.
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8. A method for sharing digital images over a network that includes a client computer, a server, and a recipient computer, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) allowing a user of the client computer to upload to the server a digital image, contact information, and an email address of a recipient;
(b) storing, by the server, the digital image and the contact information;
(c) in response to the user requesting that the digital image be sent to the recipient, creating an email message that includes a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the digital image;
(d) automatically sending the email message from the server to the recipient at the recipient computer, the email message stating that there is an image available on a web site for the recipient and that the image can be viewed by opening the included URL; and
(e) in response to receiving a request from the recipient computer that includes the URL, displaying the digital image to the recipient for viewing. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of sharing image data between a user and a recipient via a server adapted to communicate with a sending computer and a receiving computer, the server executing the steps of:
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(a) receiving electronic image data that is transferred under control of the user at the sending computer, the image data residing in the sending computer or an image source separate from and in communication with the sending computer;
(b) storing the received image data in a database;
(c) associating a uniform resource locator (URL) with the stored image data that allows a browser to retrieve the image data;
(d) receiving at least one email address for at least one recipient from the sending computer;
(e) including the URL for the stored image data in an email message that states the stored image data is available for viewing; and
(f) sending the email message to the at least one recipient for retrieval at the receiving computer, whereby the at least one recipient can view the image data using the URL. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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