Patent ID: 7774719

Claim:
A method comprising: eliciting and receiving, into a registration database, a plurality of personal information relating to a corresponding plurality of subscriber persons, wherein the plurality of subscriber persons includes a first person and a second person, wherein the personal information includes a name and an address of each of the plurality of subscriber persons; eliciting and receiving an uploaded first photographic image of the first person into the registration database and associating the first photographic image of the first person with the personal information relating to the first person; eliciting and receiving an uploaded second photographic image of the second person into the registration database and associating the second photographic image of the second person with the personal information relating to the second person; displaying on a computer output device a plurality of photographic images of the subscriber persons including the first photographic image of the first person in a plurality of photo arrays including a first and a second photo array, and configuring the plurality of photo arrays to allow a user to distinguish the first person shown in the first photographic image from the second person shown in the second photographic image, wherein the first and second photographic images are in the first photo array; eliciting and receiving input indicating a selection by the user of the first person from the first photo array; and interpreting the user's selection of the first person as at least part of an instruction to make a purchase of a good or service for the first person, wherein the user is not the first person.