SYSTEM FOR STOCK IMAGES PEER-TO-PEER SERVICES OVER THE WORLD WIDE WEB

摘要

A method and system for distributed digital content trading over the Internet. The system comprises image publishers with an image repository and a publishing module; image buyers, with an image enhancement module, and a system service center, with a web server, an image attributes database, a search module, a billing module and a coordination and control module. Image suppliers publish in the service's web-site thumbnails representing those images. The image buyer, searching for images, elects those thumbnails meeting her/his requirements, and gets from the service a temporary direct communication link to the image repository of the supplier. The buyer got now the option to review, enhance and embed in page layout the low-resolution representation of the selected thumbnails, and quality check parts of the high-resolution images. The buyer pays via the service's billing module .The buyer acquires the high-resolution image file directly from the supplier's repository.