Patent ID: 8694501

Claim:
A method of sharing an inventory of household items, comprising: receiving at an inventory system, images of one or more items of a household of a first user, one or more associated room categories, one or more associated item labels, and associated item information; storing by the inventory system in computer readable memory, the images of the one or more items of the household of the first user, the one or more associated room categories, the one or more associated item labels, and the associated item information; providing a first user interface by the inventory system via which the images of the one or more items of the household of the first user, the one or more associated room categories, the one or more associated item labels, and the associated item information can be (a) viewed, (b) edited, (c) searched or any combination of (a), (b), and (c) by the first user; providing a second user interface by the inventory system via which the images of the one or more items of the household of the first user, the one or more associated room categories, the one or more associated item labels, and the associated item information can be assigned to a first list by the first user; and providing a data network interface by the inventory system via which access to the images of the one or more items of the household of the first user, the one or more associated room categories, the one or more associated item labels, and the associated item information on the first list is restricted to a second user wherein the second user is a social networking shared user of the first user.