Patent ID: 6809762
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
A photograph service method comprising the steps of:offering a photograph package to a customer containing a selected number of photographs to be taken at a plurality of individual photographic sites within a defined area; arranging for and accepting payment from the customer for the photographic package; identifying a prepaid customer at each photographic site; issuing a portable digital image storage element to the customer for use in a digital camera at each photographic site by the identified customer; transporting the portable digital image storage element by the customer to a plurality of the photographic sites; inserting the portable digital image storage element into a digital camera at each photographic site; taking at least one image at the one of the plurality of photographic sites by the customer using the digital camera at the photographic site; storing the at least one image taken at the at least one of the photographic sites in the digital image storage element; the customer transporting the portable digital image storage element away from the one photographic site after the image is stored in the portable digital image storage element; and transferring the images from the digital image storage element to the customer.