Patent ID: 7650069

Claim:
A method of facilitating photo completion comprising: a hand-held device, configured to both capture and transmit digital photos, running a local application that controls pre-transmission review of digital photos captured by the hand-held device, a delivery target to which the digital photos are to be delivered and a hard copy presentation method when the delivery target corresponds to a remote hard copy device; the local application presenting one or more configuration screens on a display of the hand-held device; and via the one or more configuration screens, the local application receiving default parameter settings from a user of the hand-held device for a pre-transmission review mode, the delivery target and the hard copy presentation method, when the local application is running on the hand-held device, delivery of subsequently captured digital photos is streamlined by applying the default parameter settings to the subsequently captured digital photos, the default parameter settings for the pre-transmission review mode including one or more of (i) a confirmation mode, which, responsive to capture of a digital photo, seeks confirmation from the user regarding the delivery target prior to transmission of the captured digital photo from the hand-held device to the delivery target and (ii) an acknowledgement mode, which, responsive to capture of the digital photo and without seeking confirmation from the user, transmits the captured digital photo from the hand-held device to the delivery target and informs the user regarding status of the transmission.