Patent ID: 8640185
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A personal-information managing apparatus that inputs or stores personal information to issue the input or stored personal information to a personal-information handling apparatus, the personal-information managing apparatus comprising: a usage permission policy manager to manage usage permission policy in which a boundary between usage permission and usage prohibition of the personal information is defined; a personal information request receiver to receive a request for the personal information from the personal-information handling apparatus; a usage-permission issuing unit to obtain the usage permission policy corresponding to the received request via the usage permission policy manager, and to issue a usage permit corresponding to the usage permission policy and the requested personal information to the personal-information handling apparatus; a usage permit issue history manager to manage issued history information including the usage permit and usage permission issue history relating to the personal information; a credibility establishing unit to establish credibility of information exchange with the personal-information handling apparatus in relation to the issuing of the usage permit and the personal information, and a confirming unit to confirm a transfer of the personal information with a user included in transfer information when the transfer information received from a transfer destination of the personal information is detected in the issued history information.