Patent ID: 7272798

Claim:
A method for intermediating images, comprising: registering at least one user to at least one user group at a service site via a user terminal connected with the service site over a network by assigning authentication information to the at least one user; allowing users belonging to user groups to register images via respective user terminals by corresponding to user group information showing at least one user group to which the images belong, at a service site to be shared among selected users in respective user groups as selected by a respective user registering an image; receiving the authentication information of a user belonging to at least one user group; extracting the user group information concerning the at least one user group to which the user belongs, from a user group table recording a relationship between the user and the user group based on the authentication information; sending the user group information extracted to the user and obtaining information of a respective user group selected by the user; extracting at least one image corresponding to the respective user group selected by the user from the registered images of the respective user group; and sending the image corresponding to the respective user group to the user.