Patent ID: 8886717

Claim:
A method of causing an interchange server to intermediate communication between a client device and a plurality of service-offering servers, the method comprising: generating a uniform user interface at the client device in accordance with a common API, the common API being independent of a plurality of server-specific APIs, each of the plurality of server-specific APIs corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of service-offering servers, the plurality of server-specific APIs being stored in an electronic memory of the interchange server; receiving, at the interchange server, input data entered into the uniform user interface, the input data including selection of a service corresponding to a desired service-offering server of the plurality of service offering servers; translating the input data, at the interchange server, in accordance with a respective one of the server-specific APIs corresponding to the desired service-offering server; and transmitting the translated input data from the interchange server to the desired service-offering server in accordance with the respective one of the plurality of server-specific APIs, a response from the desired service-offering server being translated and transmitted to the client device according to the common API, wherein the common API includes a login function to log the client device onto the desired service-offering server, an albums function to return, via the interchange server to the client device, a listing of data groups stored on the desired service-offering server, the data groups being associated with the client device at the desired service-offering server, a new album function to generate, via the interchange server, a new data group in the desired service-offering server, an assets function to return, via the interchange server to the client device, a list of assets stored on the desired service-offering server, the list of assets being associated with the client device at the desired service-offering server, an image function to return selected data via the interchange server to the client device, the selected data being displayed on a display of the client device, and an upload function to upload the input data, via the interchange server, to the desired service-offering server.