Patent ID: 8719100

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for interactive delivery of information through images, comprising: establishing, by a computer, an image store including a plurality of images, an image in the image store showing an object; receiving, by the computer, an object tag for the image, the object tag identifying and providing information about the object shown in the image, wherein the image showing the object is received from a photo agency and wherein receiving an object tag for the image comprises: receiving product information from a marketer independent of the photo agency, the product information describing information about a product marketed by the marketer; interacting with the marketer to receive an association between the object shown in the image and the product marketed by the marketer; and storing the association between the object and the product as the object tag; providing, by the computer, the image to a remote publisher, the publisher adapted to publish the image to a client; providing, by the computer, a tag module to the publisher, wherein: the publisher is adapted to provide the tag module to the client; the tag module is adapted to execute at the client to receive the information about the object shown in the image; the tag module is adapted to display the information about the object shown in the image; the tag module is adapted to display an interface on the client allowing a consumer using the client to interact with the displayed information; and the tag module is adapted to report consumer interactions with the displayed information to an image management server independent of the publisher; and providing the information about the object shown in the image to the client responsive to the client receiving the published image from the publisher.