Patent ID: 8190688

Claim:
A method of emailing photographs from a set top box, the method comprising: presenting a menu at a television coupled to the set top box, wherein the menu concurrently displays thumbnail views of photographs, a viewing window, a send button, and an email photo button; displaying an enlarged view in the viewing window of a particular thumbnail view selected via a remote control device; receiving, via the remote control device, an indication that the email photo button was selected while the particular thumbnail view is selected; adding an address book to the menu in response to the indication, wherein the address book contains one or more recipient email addresses; receiving selection of a recipient email address from the address book; transmitting an email to the recipient email address when the send button is selected, wherein the email includes an attachment of a photograph corresponding to the particular thumbnail view and a return email address that will cause a return email to be sent to a location other than the set top box, wherein the return email address corresponds to an email address associated with a user of the set top box; when no thumbnail view is selected via the remote control device, determining whether a timeout period has been exceeded; and exiting the menu in response to determining that the timeout period has been exceeded.