Patent ID: 8463847

Claim:
A computer system for rendering user-specified image products, comprising: a server computer coupled to a communication network; at least one user-interactive client computer coupled to the communication network; the at least one client computer for executing a plurality of user-interactive tasks for editing a digital image for incorporating the digital image in an image product, at least some of the user-interactive tasks specifying a portion of the image product; the at least one client computer for calculating a user-interactive change probability of further user-interactive changes to the portion of the image product that was specified by said at least some of the user-interactive tasks; and the at least one client computer for comparing the user-interactive change probability with a predetermined stored threshold, and for selecting to render the portion of the image product that was specified by said at least some of the user-interactive tasks or selecting the server to render the portion of the image product that was specified by said at least some of the user-interactive tasks, if the user-interactive change probability is lower than the predetermined stored threshold.