Patent ID: 7774431

Claim:
A method for creating, editing and monitoring real-time collaborative on-line multimedia albums at a host site, wherein said host site hosts a central system comprising an automated front-end website interface and a back-end database record creation and management process for creating, editing, monitoring and viewing a plurality of real-time collaborative on-line multimedia albums, the method comprising: receiving at the central system, a request from a previously registered user to create and manage a multimedia album at the central system, dynamically allocating storage space on a data store at the central system to create a multimedia album responsive to said registered user request, providing the requesting registered user with exclusive authority as content manager of the multimedia album for controlling, moderating and enforcing permissions and privileges associated with viewing, contributing and accessing content associated with the multimedia album, publishing an assigned unique email address of the multimedia album to allow registered and anonymous users to upload digital contributions to the multimedia album, randomly receiving at said assigned unique published email address of the multimedia album digital content contributions from at least two content contributors for incorporation into said created multimedia album, wherein said at least two content contributors comprise registered and anonymous content contributors, wherein said randomly contributed digital contributions are uploaded from said registered and anonymous content contributors to said central system using non-proprietary software means, and making the received digital content contributions available in real-time for public and private viewing over one of a public or private network, wherein said public and private viewing is hosted at the central system, and wherein said public viewing comprises simultaneously viewing the received digital content contributions by a plurality of viewers in a public forum.