Patent ID: 6961904

Claim:
A system for displaying a first user's personal digital photographic images, the system comprising a combination of: a gaming console for playing a video game for the first user, the gaming console comprising a data communications module for connecting the gaming console to a wide area network, such as the Internet; a domestic visual display unit operatively connected to the gaming console for displaying the video game to the first user; a portable digital data store configured for operation with the gaming console when operatively read by the same, the digital data store comprising the first user's digitised photographic image data and a viewing application program, the viewing application program comprising a communications program for transmitting information to a remote second user via the data communications module and the wide area network, and being arranged on operation to configure the gaming console to display the digitised photographic image data on the domestic visual display unit when the digital data store has been read by the gaming console; a further gaming console for playing a further video game for the second user, the further gaming console including a further data communications module operatively connecting the further gaming console to the wide area network; a further domestic visual display unit operatively connected to the further gaming console for displaying the further video game to the second user; and a further portable digital data store configured for operation with the further gaming console when operatively read by the same, the further digital data store comprising the first user's digitised photographic image data and a further viewing application program, the further viewing application program being arranged on operation to configure the further gaming console to display the digitised photographic image data on the further domestic visual display unit when the further digital data store has been read by the further gaming console, and comprising a further communications program arranged to receive sharing information from the remote first user via the further data communications module and the wide area network.