Network photograph service system
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsMICHITO WATANABE, MAKOTO HARA, TAKASHI YATABE
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Abstract
Image transmission via electronic mail is carried out more easily and at low cost. An image file managed by a database of a system of a service provider (center server) is disclosed on a network. The center server obtains various kinds of information (such as an image ID to specify the image to be transmitted and a destination address) input to the system by a service user who has viewed the disclosed image. Based on this information, the center server reads the specified image file from the database, converts the image file into an attachment document format, generates an image-attached electronic mail message, and transmits the electronic mail message to the specified address.
Claims9
A network photograph service system which provides various kinds of services using an image by disclosing the image on a network, the network photograph service system comprising:
- image storing means for storing at least one image;
- image selecting means for enabling a service user to select one or a plurality of images from the image or the images stored in the image storing means, by enabling the image or the images in the image storing means to be viewed on the network;
- mail generating means for generating an electronic mail message including the image or the images selected by the image selecting means as an attachment to the electronic mail message;
- destination address specifying means for enabling the service user to specify a destination address of the electronic mail message;
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- mail transmitting means for transmitting the electronic mail message to the destination address specified by the destination address specifying means.
A second network photograph service system which provides various kinds of services using an image by disclosing the image on a network, the network photograph service system comprising:
- image storing means for storing at least one image;
- image selecting means for enabling a service user to select one or a plurality of images from the image or the images stored in the image storing means, by enabling the image or the images stored in the image storing means to be viewed on a network;
- mail generating means for generating an electronic mail message including an address or addresses of the image or the images selected by the image selecting means;
- destination address specifying means for enabling the service user to specify a destination address of the electronic mail message;
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- mail transmitting means for transmitting the electronic mail message to the destination address specified by the destination address specifying means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.