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

• US 7,177,820 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2005
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• 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): Vig; Naresh
• Application Number:
  US11/106,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20050182651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• 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 storing and viewing 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 photoservice provider;

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

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

d) viewing by others users the images stored at the storage location associated with the unique user ID using their separate password.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital images transferred to the unique user ID are relatively high resolution images and the images viewed are relatively low resolution images.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of providing a high resolution print from a digital image located at the unique user ID.