Patent ID: 9521444
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An information providing apparatus, comprising: an inputter that obtains log information and personal information corresponding to the log information; a tentative ID giver that gives tentative IDs to the personal information, each of the tentative IDs being given at each predetermined timing; a first storage that stores correspondence-relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the personal information and the each of the given tentative IDs; a receiver that receives a request for outputting information including a requested tentative ID given at one past timing, on the request the requested tentative ID being identified by i) a current tentative ID given to the personal information and ii) the one past timing when the requested ID was given to the personal information; an information processor that determines, in accordance with the request, link-relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the requested tentative ID and the current tentative ID, based on the correspondence-relationship information stored in the first storage; a second storage that stores the determined link-relationship information; and an outputter that outputs first information including the requested tentative ID or second information indicating that outputting of the first information is not permitted, based on the link-relationship information stored in the second storage.