Patent ID: 8204894
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling a server apparatus which stores in a memory received image data received via a network, comprising the steps of: setting a disclosure date of a received image represented by the received image data; processing the received image data so as to create a plurality of processed images each represented by received and processed image data, wherein said processing step is executed plural times; transmitting first Web page information containing a selection region for use in selecting an interval at which the plural times of said processing step are to be executed, wherein the selection region includes a plurality of interval candidates and the plurality of interval candidates varies on the basis of a time period until the set disclosure date; receiving an interval at which the plural times of said processing step are to be executed, the received interval being selected by a user via said selection region; based on the received interval, setting an interval at which the plural times of said processing step are to be executed; setting a level of processing to be performed for the received image data to create each of the plurality of processed images such that a quality of each of the plurality of processed images is lower than a quality of the received image and the quality of each processed image differs from each other; comparing a time ticked in the server apparatus and the set disclosure date; creating second Web page information linked to the processed image represented by the received and processed image data at intervals of the set interval when the time ticked in the server apparatus is determined to be earlier than the set disclosure date, such that the created second Web page information is linked to the processed image with higher quality as the set disclosure date approaches, and creating third Web page information linked to the received image represented by the received image data when the time ticked in the server apparatus is determined to be the set disclosure date; and transmitting, via the network, the created second Web page information linked to the processed image represented by the received and processed image data at intervals of the set interval before the set disclosure date, and transmitting the created third Web page information linked to the received image represented by the received image data on the set disclosure date, to a specified recipient.