Patent ID: 7019772

Claim:
A method of enabling the use of a reloadable single use digital camera for acquiring and storing data corresponding to images and thereafter providing a customer means for retrieving selected images from said stored data upon the customer transmitting said data to a reloading server, said method comprising the steps of: providing the customer said reloadable single use digital camera of the type that electronically records and stores said data corresponding to said images selected by the customer, and provides no means for the customer to retrieve said data in image form from said digital camera; wherein said digital camera includes a means for said customer to view said images that said customer acquires and stores as data corresponding to said images and for selecting a predetermined number of said stored data corresponding to said images for continued storage while removing the remainder of said stored data corresponding to said images from storage within said digital camera; and, wherein said selected data corresponding to said images cannot be removed from storage by said customer after being selected for continued storage; and, receiving said data corresponding to said selected images from said customer after said customer has utilized said digital camera to acquire and store data corresponding to said images and, thereafter, retrieving selected images from said data for said customer.