System and method for searching and remotely printing social networking digital images for pickup at a retail store

摘要

The method and system allow a user to launch, on an web-enabled device, a client application that retrieves images from a social networking database. The client application displays the retrieved images available for printing to a user, and in response to receiving a selection of an image, the client application retrieves social networking attributes associated with the selected image from the social networking database. In response to receiving one or more social networking attributes from the user, the client application transmits the selected image and associated social network attributes to a proprietary server. Moreover, upon receiving print order information, the client application additionally executes a location awareness application that determines a current location of the web-enabled device and subsequently, determines a proximal retail store to the current location of the web-enabled device. Thereafter, the remote printing system creates and transmits a print order that includes the selected image to the retail store for pickup.

主权项

1. A method of creating a print order for one or more image prints associated with a social networking service for pick-up at a retail store, the method executed by one or more computer processors programmed to perform the method, the method comprising:
receiving a command to execute an image display interface operable to display one or more images on a client device; causing the image display interface to display one or more social networking image categories to a user, each social networking image category specifying one or more images associated with the social networking image category, wherein at least one of the one or more social networking image categories includes one or more social networking image subcategories, each social networking image subcategory specifying a subset of the one or more images associated with the at least one social networking image category; receiving a selection of the at least one social networking image category and one of the one or more social networking image subcategories; using the selected social networking image subcategory to retrieve the subset of the one or more images associated with the selected social networking image subcategory from a social networking database; causing the image display interface to display to the user the retrieved subset of the one or more images associated with the selected social networking image subcategory; receiving from the user a selection of an image of the displayed subset of the one or more images associated with the selected social networking image subcategory to include in the print order; retrieving from the social networking database social networking attributes associated with the selected image; receiving from the user a selection of social networking attributes associated with the selected image to include with the selected image on the image print; receiving from the user print order information associated with the selected image; transmitting to a server the selected image, selected social networking attributes associated with the selected image, and the print order information associated with the selected image; receiving from the server order receipt information; causing the image display interface to display to the user the order receipt information; and transmitting to the server a command to cause the printing of the selected image and the selected social networking attributes associated with the selected image according to the print order information associated with the selected image at the retail store for purchase and pick-up.