device application_number US 82624604 A description embodiments of the present invention allow a sending device to share an image with one or more receiving devices each receiving device receives image data according to parameters specified by the receiving device thus a receiving device capable of displaying a low resolution image may request data corresponding to the low resolution thereby requiring less data to be transferred than for a high resolution image referring to fig1 an arrangement according to an embodiment of the invention is illustrated in this arrangement 100 a sending device 110 which may be any device capable of communication with other devices is provided for example the sending device 110 may be wireless device such as a cellular telephone an image data server 120 is provided access to image data to one or more receiving devices such as receiving devices 130 a 130 b the image data server 120 is provided with a storage capability such as a database 122 for storing image data the image data server 120 may be a standard server such as an apache server or others as with the sending device 110 the receiving devices 130 a 130 b may also be any of a number of devices capable of communicating for example the receiving devices 130 a 130 b may be wireless devices such as cellular telephones or desktop computers referring again to fig1 in practice a user operating the sending device 110 may wish to share image data with one or more users having receiving devices 130 a 130 b the sending device 110 may be equipped with a digital camera for example and the user may wish to share a digital photograph with other users when a user elects to share image data the sending device 110 establishes a communication.