Method of permitting group access to electronically stored images and transaction card used in the method

• US 6,937,989 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2004
• Issued: 08/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: McIntyre, Dale F., Manico, Joseph A., Cooper, Andrew T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weiss, John G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vig, Naresh
• Application Number:
  US10/754,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20040143394A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1
• US Class Current: 705/76
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3821 Electronic credentials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method of storing and viewing a collection of digital images includes the steps of: providing a plurality of users with a unique user ID associated with a URL identifying a network photoservice provider; providing each one of the plurality of users with a separate password to the unique user ID; at least one of the plurality of users transferring a set of digital images to the unique user ID employing their separate passwords; and viewing the images located at the unique user ID using the separate password.

Claims

1. A method of providing photofinishing services with respect to a collection of digital images comprising the steps of

a) providing a plurality of users with a unique user ID associated with a URL identifying a network service provider and a share image memory storage location located at a network photoservice provider;

b) providing each one of the plurality of users with a separate password associated with the unique user ID;

c) at least one of the plurality of users transferring a set of digital images to the service provider associated with said unique user ID employing their separate passwords;

d) allowing the users access to the images located at the network service provider using their associated unique user ID using the separate passwords; and

e) providing a choice of photofinishing services related to the images.

2. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the photofinishing services include one or more services selected from the list of, prints, poster prints, t-shirts, CD'"'"'s, floppy discs, album pages, greeting cards, digital file downloading, extended image storage, mugs, posting to a web page, postage stamps, masks, sticker prints, and trading cards.