Patent Document ID: 20150163449
Application ID: 14625697
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, in a data processing system, for identifying one or more eligible image candidates, the method comprising: determining, by a processor, whether storage of a recently captured image raises an allocated captured images memory space in a storage to a first threshold that storage of a next captured image would raise the allocated captured images memory space in the storage above a second threshold, wherein the first threshold is a threshold less than the allocated captured images memory space in the storage and wherein the second threshold is greater than the first threshold and less than the allocated captured images memory space in the storage; responsive to the storage of the recently captured image raising the allocated captured images memory space in the storage to the first threshold that storage of the next captured image would raise the allocated captured images memory space in the storage above the second threshold, identifying, by the processor, a criteria group in a set of criteria groups to utilize for identification of one or more images candidates for deletion from a set of stored images in the allocated captured images memory space in the storage; utilizing one or more image identification criteria in the criteria group, identifying, by the processor, the one or more images candidates for deletion from the set of stored images in the allocated captured images memory space in the storage; and presenting, by the processor, the one or more image candidates for deletion to a user, wherein the presenting of the one or more image candidates to the user occurs prior to an acquisition of the next captured image.