Patent ID: 8638466
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A server for an image network system, connecting a user terminal via a communication network, for receiving image data of one or more images to be uploaded from the user terminal via the communication network, comprising: an image storage unit which stores the received image data of the one or more images uploaded from the user terminal via the communication network; an image management unit which manages for each user the image data received from the user terminal; and a capacity management unit which obtains for each user a total value of a storage capacity of the image data stored by the image storage unit, and manages whether or not the total value is within such a range as not to exceed a predetermined upper limit value of the storage capacity for each user, wherein in a case where the capacity management unit judges that the total value for an user exceeds the predetermined upper limit value for the user, the capacity management unit notifies the user terminal of the user and causes the user terminal of the user to display thereon one or more countermeasures for preventing the total value for the user from exceeding the predetermined upper limit value for the user, wherein before the one or more countermeasures are carried out, one or more images which have been selected up for uploading and are not stored by the image storage unit because the total value exceeds the predetermined upper limit value are stored as one or more upload candidate images in the user terminal or the server, after the one or more countermeasures have been carried out, the one or more upload candidate images stored in the user terminal or the server are displayed on the user terminal to cause the user to select up again one or more images for uploading in the one or more upload candidate images.