Patent ID: 7373173

Claim:
A method of sharing an image item comprising, without regard to order or overlap: (a) capturing an image item using camera functionality of a mobile entity and transferring the image item to a networked service system; (b) forming, at the mobile entity, a viewer set of at least one intended viewer of the image item, by a process comprising selection from a group of persons identified by wireless means as nearby contemporaneously with image-item capture in step (a); and (c) sending, to the or each viewer in the viewer set, a message comprising access information for use in accessing the image item at the service system, wherein identification of the group of persons nearby contemporaneously with image-item capture, is effected by a wireless enquiry sent out by the mobile entity; and wherein said wireless enquiry is such as to restrict said group of persons identified as nearby to persons who lie in the same general direction from the mobile entity as that in which said image item was captured.