System for Providing a Share Statement Linked to a Digital Identifier of an Image

A method for processing a share statement linked to an image uploaded to a service provider, comprising:

• the service provider sending the image to a decoding module;
• the decoding module extracting one or more digital identifiers used to encode the image;
• the decoding module sending the one or more digital identifiers to a server system;
• the server system having a registry with a plurality of one or more image-share-specific digital identifier keys linked to image-share-specific auxiliary information including at least the share statement for a specific image share;
• the server system searching the registry for the one or more digital identifier keys associated with the encoded image as a function of the one or more digital identifiers received from the decoding module;
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• the service provider receiving, from the server system, at least one of the share statement linked to the one or more image-share-specific digital identifier keys and a message indicative of a content of the share statement.

A method for a service provider to act according to a change of an image-share-specific auxiliary information including a share statement for a specific share of the image with a recipient, the share statement being linked to one or more image-share-specific digital identifiers of the image, where a user has uploaded the image to the service provider, comprising:

• encoding the image with one or more image-share-specific digital identifiers, thereby creating an encoded image for the specific share with a recipient;
• creating one or more image-share-specific digital identifier keys of said image-share-specific encoded image as a function of the one or more image-share-specific digital identifiers;
• creating image-share-specific auxiliary information, the image-share-specific auxiliary information including at least a share statement for the specific share of the image with the recipient;
• linking the image-share-specific auxiliary information to the one or more image-share-specific digital identifier keys;
• sending the one or more image-share-specific digital identifier keys and the image-share-specific auxiliary information to a server system;
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• upon receiving a request for a change of the share statement linked to the one or more digital image-share-specific identifier keys from the user, causing the share statement linked to the one or more image-share-specific digital identifier keys to be changed.

A system for providing auxiliary information linked to an image that, after being captured, is encoded with one or more digital identifiers, comprising:

• a server system;
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• at least one sender device comprising a communication module and an encoding module adapted to encode an image with one or more digital identifiers and to provide a digital identifier key, wherein the at least one sender device is configured to perform the following, after capturing an image:
• encoding the image with one or more digital identifiers, thereby creating an encoded image,
• creating one or more digital identifier keys of said encoded image as a function of the one or more digital identifiers,
• creating auxiliary information, the auxiliary information including at least a share statement,
• linking the auxiliary information to the one or more digital identifier keys, and
• sending the one or more digital identifier keys and auxiliary information to the server system.

A system for decoding an encoded image before the encoded image is shared, wherein the encoded image has been previously encoded at an encoding module with one or more digital identifiers, the system comprising:

• a decoding module configured to perform the following steps:
• receive from a requester device the encoded image,
• extract from the encoded image the one or more digital identifiers previously used to encode the image,
• transmit the extracted one or more digital identifiers to a server system, such that the server system can do the following:
• (1) search within a registry of the server system for auxiliary information linked to one or more digital identifier keys associated with the one or more digital identifiers of the encoded image,
• (2) send to the requester device at least one of a share statement included in the auxiliary information linked to the one or more image-share-specific digital identifier keys and a message indicative of a content of the share statement.