Method and system for defining a storefront in printing digital images
OwnerChris Tuijn, Marc Gemis +2inventors
InventorsChris Tuijn, Marc Gemis, Eddy Op de Beeck, Hermann Fuchsberger
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Abstract
A method for defining a storefront for showing to a customer a product set including a digital image product for being ordered by the customer, wherein the storefront has storefront-related data including first data defining the digital image product and second data selected from the group of payment data and shipment data, the method including (a) defining a hierarchical configuration of partners, wherein the partners include a first partner and a second partner, different from the first one; (b) defining the first data by the first partner; and (c) defining the second data by the second partner
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A method for defining a storefront for showing to a customer a product set comprising a digital image product for being ordered by said customer, wherein said storefront has storefront-related data including first data defining said digital image product and second data selected from the group of payment data and shipment data, the method comprising the steps of:
- defining a hierarchical configuration of partners, wherein said partners include a first partner and a second partner, different from said first partner;
- defining said first data by said first partner;
- and
- defining said second data by said second partner.
Operating in a system comprising
- a client server for obtaining a storefront by a customer, said storefront showing to said customer a product set comprising a digital image product for being ordered by said customer, said digital image product including an image having an image reference,
- a main server for transmitting said storefront to said client server, and
- an image server for transmitting said image reference to said image to said client server,
- a method for defining said storefront, the method comprising the steps of:
- checking first access rights of a first partner to storefront-related data of said storefront;
- based on said first access rights
- (A) accessing said storefront-related data by said first partner, or
- (B) refusing access to said storefront-related data by said first partner;
- and
- checking second access rights of a second partner to said storefront-related data, said second partner having a hierarchical relation to said first partner;
- based on said second access rights
- (A) accessing said storefront-related data by said second partner, or
- (B) refusing access to said storefront-related data by said second partner,
- wherein said second access rights depend on said hierarchical relation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.