Patent ID: 7209653

Claim:
A photographic image service system comprising a plurality of service shops for providing a photographic image service; at least one order terminal; and a management server; all connected via a network, wherein: each of the service shops comprises: an uploading means for uploading at least one photographic image of an event which occurs in its local area to the management server; and an output means for outputting at least one photographic image of the event specified by an output command issued by the management server; the management server comprises: a memory means for recording the at least one photographic image of the event, correlated with area specifying data that specifies an area where the service shop, which has uploaded the at least one photographic image, is located; a search means for searching the memory means for the at least one photographic image of the event uploaded by a service shop which is designated by area designating data received from the order terminal; an image exhibiting means for transmitting the at least one photographic image found by the search means to the order terminal; and an output control means for transmitting output commands that cause at least one photographic image, specified by image specifying data transmitted from the order terminal from among the at least one photographic image of the event transmitted thereto, to be transmitted to a predetermined service shop and output thereat; and each of the at least one order terminal comprises: an area designating means for designating an area at which at least one photographic image of an event is obtained, by transmitting area designating data, desired by a user, to the management server; a display means for displaying the at least one photographic image transmitted to the order terminal from the management server; and an image specifying means for transmitting data that specifies at least one photographic image selected by the user from among the at least one photographic image of the event transmitted to the management server, as the image specifying data.