Patent ID: 8655404

Claim:
A method of using a cellular telephone with an integrated camera to distribute content to client devices of users over a communications network, wherein the users are organized in social groups, the method comprising: configuring a mobile client to operate on the cellular telephone in an automatic content sharing mode, wherein configuring the mobile client to operate in the automatic content sharing mode comprises receiving user input with the cellular telephone that specifies a selection of a given social group; while the mobile client is operating on the cellular telephone in the automatic content sharing mode, capturing the content using the integrated camera, wherein capturing the content comprises storing at least one image in a storage device in the cellular telephone; and while the mobile client is operating in the automatic content sharing mode and in response to capturing the content using the integrated camera, automatically transmitting the content over the communications network to the client devices of the users in the given social group that was selected while configuring the mobile client to operate in the automatic content sharing mode.