Patent ID: 6151596
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
An information providing system comprising:a terminal for issuing an information obtainment request with regard to desired digital information, wherein the information obtainment request is transmitted together with an output condition of the terminal;an information storage equipment for storing and managing digital information, which should be provided for a user of the terminal in response to the information obtainment request,wherein said information storage equipment further comprisesa plurality of information element managers for storing and managing a plurality of digital information elements respectively,providing manner storage means for storing a default providing manner by which the digital information elements respectively extracted from the information element managers are synthesized together and are provided for the user,reconstruction knowledge storage means for storing a plurality of change methods, each of which changes the default providing manner in response to the output condition of the terminal,priority storage means for storing mutual priority set for a prescribed number of the information element managers, andinformation construction means for accessing the information element managers to extract the digital information elements suited to the information obtainment request given from the terminal, wherein if the output condition of the terminal matches with the default providing manner, the information construction means synthesizes the extracted digital information elements in accordance with the default providing manner to construct digital information, which is transmitted to the terminal, while if the output condition of the terminal does not match with the default providing manner, the information construction means selects one of the change methods in consideration of the mutual priority so as to change the default providing manner in response to the selected change method, so that the information construction means synthesizes the extracted digital information elements in accordance with the changed providing manner to construct digital information, which is sent to the terminal.