Patent ID: 7237197

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving input from a video capturing device, the input including an identifier associated with the video capturing device and a video stream; retrieving an identifier from a storage, the retrieved identifier corresponding to the received identifier associated with the video capturing device; locating a directory corresponding to the retrieved identifier, the directory containing one ore more stored images previously captured by the video capturing device; presenting a view of the video stream currently being captured by the video capturing device to a user; contemporaneously presenting the one or more stored images previously captured by the video capturing device to the user; presenting in a user interface a control for capturing a still image from the view of the video stream being displayed in the video display area; and in response to the user activating the control, capturing the still image and adding it to the previously captured stored images; and presenting a folder to the user; in response to the user selecting the folder, displaying an icon representing a video capturing device; and in response to the user selecting the video capturing device icon, displaying a real-time view of the video stream currently being captured by the video capturing device along with one or more images that were previously captured by the video capturing device.