Patent ID: 8601087

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for sharing media items with one or more persons, the method comprising: receiving, at a first computing device, a first media item and a first tag from a hand-held device communicatively coupled to the first computing device, wherein the first tag is assigned the first media item on the hand-held device; determining, by operation of one or more computer processors, a first channel of a plurality of channels to add the first media item to, based on the first tag, wherein the first channel is associated with a plurality of recipients; adding the first media item to a plurality of media items corresponding to the first channel; transmitting the first media item, from the first computing device, to a server computing device, wherein the server computing device is configured to control access to the first media item by restricting access to the first media item to the plurality of recipients defined by the first channel, such that recipients within the plurality of recipients can access the first media item as long as (i) the recipients remain within the plurality of recipients and (ii) the first media item remains within the plurality of media items corresponding to the first channel; and upon receiving a user selection to disassociate the first media item from the first channel, transmitting a notification to the server computing device that causes the first media item to be removed from the plurality of media items corresponding to the first channel, whereby recipients in the plurality of recipients can no longer access the first media item by way of the first channel; and upon receiving a user selection to disassociate a first recipient from the first channel, transmitting a notification to the server computing device that causes the first recipient to be removed from the plurality of recipients corresponding to the first channel, whereby the first recipient can no longer access the first media item by way of the first channel.