Patent ID: 8522295

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, characterized in that it comprises: storage unit stores image data transmitted thereto from a different information processing apparatus for each user; specification unit accepts an access from said different information processing apparatus to specify the user of said different information processing apparatus; first transmission unit transmits, in response to a transmission request for index information to the images from said different information processing apparatus, index information to the images to said different information processing apparatus, wherein each index representing an album name and a number of images included in the album; second transmission unit transmits discrimination information to said different information processing apparatus in response to a transmission request for discrimination information from said different information processing apparatus, said discrimination information including image data format, file size and file URL (Uniform Resource Location) of accessing destination; and third transmission unit transmits predetermined image data from within the image data stored in said storage unit to said different information processing apparatus in response to a transmission request for the image data from said different information processing apparatus.