Patent ID: 8166098

Claim:
A method for distributing one or more images captured by a wireless image capture device, comprising: (a) determining whether an image captured by the wireless image capture device has or has not been sent to a network storage device; (b) if an image has not been sent to the network storage device, determining whether a network for distributing the image to at least one recipient is available; and (c) if there is a network available, the method further comprising steps of: (c.1) after having determined that the network is available, then connecting the wireless image capture device to the network; (c.2) sending the image from the wireless image capture device to the network for storage on the network storage device; (c.3) receiving an indication at the image capture device from the network storage device that the image has been stored; and (c.4) automatically deleting the image after receiving the indication that the image has been stored based on the value of a first indicator set by a user of the wireless image capture device and not automatically deleting the image after receiving the indication that the image has been stored based on the value of a second indicator set by the user of the wireless image capture.