Patent ID: 7259879

Claim:
A server computer capable of being connected to a communication terminal comprising a display device capable of displaying an image such that they can communicate with each other through a network, comprising: an image database storing image data; an image data transmission device for transmitting to said communication terminal the image data stored in said image database in response to an image transmission request from said communication terminal; a storage device storing group order information transmitted from said communication terminal and related to prints of an image represented by the image data transmitted by said image data transmission device; a controller controlling a printer so as to print the image represented by the image data specified on the basis of the group order information stored in said storage device in response to the print command from said communication terminal; image data registration acceptance means for accepting the registration of the image data to be stored in the image database; first ID generation means for generating an image ordering ID and a print commanding ID in correlation with the accepted image data in response to the acceptance of the image data by the image data registration acceptance means, the image transmission request transmitted from the communication terminal including said image ordering ID, said image data transmission device transmitting to said communication terminal the image data correlated with the image ordering ID in response to the image transmission request from the communication terminal, second ID generation means for generating a member specifying ID in correlation with the image ordering ID generated by the first ID generation means, the member specifying ID specifying a particular member of a group, the communication terminal accepting input from members of the group including the member specifying ID, the image ordering ID, and the member's selections which comprise the group order information, said print controller waiting for the print commanding ID and upon receipt thereof, controlling the printer to print a group order represented by the group order information.