Patent ID: 9325691
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A video management method of managing video information which is uploaded to a server by a user belonging to a group including a virtual administrator and a plurality of users and which is viewable by at least one different user belonging to the group via an Internet connection using an information terminal, the video management method comprising: associating the video information to be uploaded to the server by the user with user information indicating the user; storing the video information uploaded via the Internet connection into a storage unit; authorizing the different user to view the video information stored in the storage unit, the different user belonging to the group to which the user indicated by the user information associated with the video information belongs; and presenting to the user, at withdrawal of the user from the group, options for a process to be selected by the user, the process to be executed on the video information that the different user belonging to the group is authorized to view, the options for the process including (i) deleting the video information; (ii) transferring to the different user a right of management of the video information by associating the video information with user information indicating the at least one different user belonging to the group; and (iii) transferring to the virtual administrator the right of management of the video information by associating the video information with administrator information indicating the virtual administrator of the group.