Cloud storage for image data, image product designs, and image projects

摘要

A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for providing image services over a computer network, comprising:
establishing a unified data structure between an image service center and a cloud storage system, wherein the unified data structure defines images and secondary image projects associated with a first user; storing images in the image service center according to the unified data structure; automatically sending the images from the image service center to the cloud storage system; automatically storing the images according to the unified data structure in the cloud storage system; automatically identifying a group of images in the unified data structure; determining number of images in the group; comparing the number of images in the group with a predetermined range by a computer processor; automatically creating, by the computer processor, a secondary image project incorporating the images in the group without receiving a user request for creating an image project if the number of images in the group is within the predetermined range, wherein the step of automatically creating a secondary image project comprises automatically selecting at least one page layout for the secondary image project; and placing the images in the page layout; automatically storing the secondary image project according to the unified data structure in the cloud storage system; and sending the secondary image project stored at the cloud storage system to users' devices.