Patent ID: 8386417

Claim:
An electronic album providing system with which publishing and viewing of an electronic album by a system user is possible, the system comprising: a designation unit that designates readers who are allowed to view the electronic album in response to designation input by a publisher who has uploaded the electronic album to the electronic album providing system; a first decision unit that detects whether or not the designated readers designated by the designation unit have completed viewing of the album and counts the designated readers who are detected to have completed viewing of the album, and that decides that a first condition has become valid when a proportion of a total number of the designated readers who have completed viewing of the album to a total number of the designated readers reaches a predetermined value; a second decision unit that decides that a second condition has become valid when a time limit for publishing the album that has been set in advance arrives; and a deletion unit that performs deletion control of the album when at least one of the first condition and the second condition becomes valid.