Digital Photograph Processing And Ordering System And Method

摘要

The disclosure presents a system and method for processing and managing customer orders for digital documents, such as digital photographs, through a network, such as the internet. The system may be implemented in a variety of ways, including a system, a method and/or a computer readable medium for processing and managing customer orders for digital documents, such as digital photographs, through a network, such as the internet. The system, method and/or medium includes logic for receiving at a first server an upload of a digital image from a first client computer, receiving at the first server identification data associated with the digital image, storing in a first memory associated with the first server the digital image, storing in the first memory the identification data associated with the digital image, receiving at the first server a first digital image print request, receiving an electronic first remote location identification of a first remote location to have the digital image printed, and electronically sending to the first remote location a second digital image print request to have the digital image printed, without sending the digital image to be printed. The logic can also include receiving a first digital image print request from a client device, at a retail website computer, receiving at a central computer the first digital image print request from the client computer through the retail website computer, receiving at the central computer an availability message from each of the plurality of remote locations, wherein each availability message comprises a store identifier and an earliest time the digital image print request can be completed for an associated store identifier for each of the plurality of remote locations, receiving a selection of a first remote location identification for a first remote location of the plurality of remote locations, to have an associated digital image to the digital image print request printed at a first remote location associated with the first remote location identification based on the availability message for the first remote location, and sending to the first remote location the first digital image print request to have the associated digital image printed, wherein the first remote location is one of a plurality of remote locations to which the first digital image request can be sent.