Patent ID: 9219840
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: at a server controlled by a third party: communicating with a first originating party user, different to the third party, to receive in an upload originating from the first originating party user user-defined information that is defined by the first originating party user to be accessed by other parties; at the server controlled by the third party, in response to receiving the user-defined information in the upload originating from the first originating party user, automatically storing in a database an entry linking, according to specification of the first originating party user, the user-defined information received from the first originating party user via a first image key, created by digital image processing at least a first portion of image content of a first image, at least the first image being specified by the first originating party user, to enable subsequent access to the user-defined information by a plurality of different parties, wherein the database stores multiple entries and multiple image keys, each entry linking user-defined information via an image key created by digital image processing image content; at the server controlled by the third party, subsequently communicating with a second party user, different from the first originating party user and the third party, to receive from the second party user image content of a second image captured by the second party user; at the server controlled by the third party, in response to receiving from the second party user the image content of the second image, obtaining from the received image content of the second image a second image key created by digital image processing the image content of the second image; at the server controlled by the third party, automatically determining a matching correspondence between the second image key and one of the multiple image keys stored in the database to determine a matching image key; at the server controlled by the third party, using the matching image key to retrieve the user-defined information linked via the matching image key in the database; and at the server controlled by the third party, automatically providing access by the second party user to the retrieved user-defined information linked by the determined matching image key, wherein access is provided to the second party user to the user-defined information defined by and received from the first originating party user when the image content of the second image, captured by the second party user, includes a portion having a collection of interest points extracted by digital image processing that correspond to a collection of interest points extracted by digital image processing at least the first portion of the image content of the first image.