Patent ID: 8356033

Claim:
An album system comprising: a server; and a photographing device which transmits image data to the server via a network, the server comprising: an image data storing unit; a user information storing unit configured to store a user identifier to identify a user; an image-data receiving unit configured to identify the user by the user identifier received from the photographing device, associate image data received from the photographing device with the user identifier, and store the image data in the image data storing unit; and a data transmitting unit configured to assign a data identifier to identify the image data to the image data stored in the image data storing unit and transmit the data identifier to the photographing device, the photographing device comprising: an information uploading unit configured to transmit the user identifier and the image data to the server; an image information storing unit configured to receive the data identifier from the server, associate the image data with the data identifier, and store the image data in a non-volatile memory or a removable non-volatile memory of the photographing device; a URL information generating unit configured to generate URL information of a web page containing the data identifier and requesting the server to manipulate management information of the image data; an encoding unit configured to encode the URL information into a bar code; and a display unit configured to display an image of the bar code on a display.