Patent ID: 9703806
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented photo management system, comprising: a processing unit storing user photos as shared items in a collaboration and data management platform, applying security to the user photos according to consent criteria, receiving via user entry a uniform resource locator (URL) indicating a location of the user photos, receiving at least one photo from the user photos using the URL, and managing, based on the consent criteria, the user photos, the processing unit to implement a configuration list including a set of properties for sizing the user photos and control access to the configuration list via an application programming interface, the processing unit to allow an external application to access the user photos to select at least one photo for a security credential wherein the external application reads the URL and appends a web service call to the URL and allow an internal application to access the user photos via a service object model of the collaboration and data management platform wherein the internal application is internal to the collaboration and data management platform.