Patent ID: 7702821

Claim:
A method, comprising: proxying a transfer of data representing a digital image captured by a host digital camera to a storage medium of a removable media card housed within the digital camera via a firmware-controlled logical-to-physical mapping of addresses of said storage medium at which said data is to be written, the firmware being stored in the removable media card; in conjunction with storing the data representing the digital image, storing metadata concerning the digital image in the storage medium of the removable media card, said metadata comprising any of information concerning settings of the host digital camera when the digital image was captured, a location at which the digital image was captured, an identity or comments of a user of the host digital camera, an identity of others in a vicinity near the location at which the digital image was captured, or time information, wherein the metadata concerning time and/or location is derived from any of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, information concerning wireless networks determined to be near the removable media card when the digital image was captured, information concerning wireless networks detected by the removable media card, or combinations of any of the foregoing; the data representing the digital image and metadata from the storage medium of the removable media card to a management layer said transferring being made via a wireless radio transceiver included in the removable media card and a wireless network access point with which the wireless radio transceiver of the removable media card is associated, and said transferring being made only after said management layer authenticates a user associated with the removable media card according to a binding between the user and the removable media card; and transferring the data representing the digital image from the management layer to an electronic photo album following manipulation of the digital image so as to be receivable by the electronic photo album, the management layer isolating the media card from the electronic photo album.