Patent ID: 7346618
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information distribution system comprising: an information center in which a plurality of contents are registered in advance; and a portable terminal connected to said information center through a network, said information center distributing a requested content to said portable terminal in response to a content distribution request from said portable terminal, the requested content corresponding to one or more URLs of a respective one or more Internet web sites accessible by said information center, wherein said portable terminal transmits to said information center personal information of a user, which is input in association with the content distributed from said information center, together with specifying information that specifies the distributed content, the specifying information corresponding to a specific one of the one or more URLs of a specific one of the one or more Internet web sites for which the personal information is pertinent to, and said information center registers the received personal information and specifying information in relation to each other, upon receiving the content distribution request from said portable terminal, checks on the basis of the specifying information whether the personal information about the requested distributed content has already been registered, and if the personal information has been registered, distributes the personal information to said portable terminal together with the requested content, and wherein the received personal information is only provided by said information center to said portable terminal that supplied said personal information, when said portable terminal later accesses the specific one of the one or more URLs, and wherein the received personal information provided by said portable terminal to said information center is not provided to other portable terminals that are capable of accessing said information center, wherein both a content list and content update information that includes said personal information related to one or more items of the content list are simultaneously displayed on a display of the portable terminal, upon selection of the one or more items of the content list by the user.