Patent ID: 7103777
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A user information management apparatus constructed at at least one of (a) a server capable of making bidirectional communication with a user terminal, and (b) a user terminal, the apparatus comprising: storage means for holding user information concerning a plurality of users who use the user terminal to be associated with a security level; identification means for, when a user makes access to the server and an attempt is made by the user to use a predetermined application, identifying the user; level determination means for, when the user makes access to the server, determining at which of a plurality of predetermined certification levels this access is; transmission control means for enabling transmission of only the user information at the security level and the lower security level than said security level that corresponds to the determined level to the user terminal and/or another device among the user information held in the storage means; and transmission disabling means for, following at least one of conditions (a) an elapse of a predetermined period of time and/or an execution of a predetermined operation after predetermined user information is enabled to be transmitted by transmission control means, and (b) an input a predetermined instruction from the user, disabling transmission of user information at security levels other than the lowest thus enabled to be transmitted.