UPC consumer product image server system for the internet

A method of increasing the efficiency by which images of consumer products are delivered to web pages on the Internet, such products being assigned an identification number in accordance with a numbering system, comprising the steps of:

• providing at least one image file server which is connected to the Internet;
• uploading at least one image to said image file server;
• storing each said image based on its related identification number and an image size;
• assigning a URL to said image based upon the identification number and image size, thereby creating a unique URL for each said image;
• and
• writing a web page containing syntax that calls in said unique URL of said at least one image.

A method of increasing the efficiency by which images of consumer products are delivered to a browser from an image file server on the Internet, such products being assigned an identification number in accordance with a numbering system, comprising the steps of:

• providing at least one image file server which is connected to the Internet;
• uploading at least one image to said image file server;
• storing each said image based on its related identification number and an image size;
• assigning a URL to said image based upon the identification number and image size, thereby creating a unique URL for each said image;
• sending a URL request to the e-commerce server from said browser;
• sending a file response to the browser from said e-commerce server;
• sending a request to the image file server from the browser in accordance with the file response received from said e-commerce server;
• sending an image file from the image file server to the browser;
• and
• displaying a web page containing the image file received from the image file server.

A UPC image server system comprising:

• at least one image file server being connected to the Internet;
• a plurality of images being stored on said image file server, each said image being defined by a UPC number and an image size;
• a unique URL being assigned to each said image with said image size;
• and
• at least one web page containing one said unique URL.