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