Patent ID: 8082319
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving user input that indicates user intent to create, on a first client system, a collection having a user-specified name; in response to the user input that indicates the user intent to create the collection, creating the collection having the user-specified name on the first client system; receiving user input that indicates user intent to include, within the collection, a plurality of digital image files that are stored on the first client system but are not yet included within the collection; in response to the user input that indicates the user intent to include the plurality of digital image files within the collection, including the plurality of digital image files within the collection; publishing digital image files in the collection by causing the digital image files in the collection to be uploaded to a server from the first client system; after publishing the digital image files in the collection, monitoring the collection on the first client system for an addition of digital image files; while monitoring the collection on the first client system, detecting an addition, to the collection, of at least one digital image file that was stored on the first client system but not included within the collection prior to the addition of the at least one digital image file to the collection; responsive to detecting the addition of the at least one digital image file to the collection on the first client system, causing the at least one digital image file to be uploaded to the server from the first client system; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.