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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6999637 | Method and system for providing a photo album to a user of a digital imaging device A method and system for providing a user with an album including a plurality of pages is disclosed. The method and system include allowing a user to purchase at least a portion of the album and allowing the user to set a plurality of defaults for the plurality of pa... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6914625 | Method and apparatus for managing image categories in a digital camera to enhance performance of a high-capacity image storage media A method and apparatus for enhancing performance of a high-capacity storage media in a digital imaging device. The method aspect of the present invention includes, storing images on the storage media, where the images include tags for categorizing the images. A cate... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6871231 | Role-based access to image metadata A system and method for controlling access to image metadata is disclosed, where metadata elements are defined for an image. The method and system include associating users who will access the image with roles, and associating the roles with individual metadata elem... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6862038 | Efficient image categorization A method for efficiently categorizing images on a computer system is disclosed. A series of related images that are to be categorized are ordered by time of capture, and category levels for input of category information by a user are displayed. The category levels i... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6772418 | Method and system for managing subscriptions using a publisher tree The present invention provides a method and system for managing subscriptions in a software system. The method includes sending a request to a child notification publisher to send a notification message to at least one subscriber on the child, notification publisher... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6757684 | Network-based photosharing architecture A method and system for providing a network-based photosharing service is disclosed. The photosharing service includes a central photosharing site having a server, and a plurality of peer nodes each containing digital images. The method and system include associatin... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6636259 | Automatically configuring a web-enabled digital camera to access the internet The present invention provides a method and system for automatically establishing a user account and for configuring a hand-held electronic device for accessing a site on a public network using the user account. The method and system include establishing ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6629100 | Network-based photosharing architecture for search and delivery of private images and metadata A method for executing searches for resources that span more than one private resource repository in a restricted-access resource sharing system is disclosed. The system includes at least one server node and multiple peer nodes connected to a network. Res... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6571246 | Automatic data collection and workflow management in a business process A method and system for data collection and workflow management in a business process using the Internet includes: defining a plurality of steps of a business process on a network; and automatically implementing the plurality of steps, including sending a... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567122 | Method and system for hosting an internet web site on a digital camera The present invention comprises a method and system for implementing internet access to images stored in a digital image capture unit including an imaging device and a display. The image capture unit (e.g., a digital camera) is used to capture images and ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6542936 | System for creating messages including image information A system for creation of an image display such as an electronic postcard. The system interacts with a user to create and configure the display. The user provides the image data to the system and optionally specifies a message and addressee for the image d... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6453361 | Meta-application architecture for integrating photo-service websites A meta-application architecture for integrating photo-service-based websites is disclosed. The online system includes a plurality of client devices capable of storing and displaying digital images, wherein a portion of the client devices communicate data ... | 09/17/2002 |
