Patent ID: 7978376

Claim:
A digital photographic display frame comprising: a processor; a non-transitory tangible memory including instructions that are executable by the processor; a communication module responsive to the processor; and a touch screen display, the touch screen display responsive to the processor to display a digital photographic image and to provide a touch screen number pad interface, wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to: provide a graphical user interface at the touch screen display to enable associating a first time of day with a first digital photographic image and to store a table including the first time of day and a reference to the first digital photographic image and a second time of day and a second reference to a second digital photographic image to enable the touch screen display to display the first digital photographic image at the first time of day and to display the second digital photographic image at the second time of day, the first digital photographic image different from the second digital photographic image; receive a third digital photographic image in a first format via the communication module; convert the third digital photographic image from the first format to a second format that is compatible with the touch screen display in response to determining that the first format is incompatible with the touch screen display; associate an audio message with a fourth digital photographic image, wherein when the fourth digital photographic image is displayed, the audio message is played; display a text message that is associated with at least one of a particular time of day, a fifth digital photographic image, and a particular caller identifier; display a second text message in response to receiving an alert message from a remote calendar system; initiate a voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) telephone call via the communication module in response to a number entered via the touch screen number pad interface; and replace a sixth digital photographic image that is displayed at the touch screen display with a seventh digital photographic image, the seventh digital photographic image associated with the number entered via the touch screen number pad interface; and a security interface capable of being coupled to a security system that includes at least a camera, wherein the touch screen display is operable to switch from displaying one of a plurality of digital photographic images to displaying image data from the camera in response to at least one of a pressing of a doorbell button, a detection of motion, and a user selected query, wherein the plurality of digital photographic images includes at least one of the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh digital photographic images.