Patent ID: 7191451

Claim:
An individual information managing device connected with a communication line network, for managing individual information, the device comprising: an individual information storing section in which individual information of each individual is registered; a disclosure procedure storing section in which an information disclosure procedure assigned to each individual by each individual is registered, the information disclosure procedure including a plurality of disclosure levels into which the individual information is classified, each disclosure level including disclosure items assigned by the individual and being attached with an authentication method assigned by the individual; a disclosure procedure executing section that receives a request from other users for disclosing a piece of individual information of a specific individual through the communication line network, executes an information disclosure procedure of the specific individual stored in the disclosure procedure storing section, and transmits the piece of individual information of the specific individual to the communication line network toward an information requesting origin when the assigned information disclosure procedure is satisfied; the individual information storing section is registered with each individual information including a plurality of ranked pieces of information for each individual based on an arrangement that each individual assigns a rank to each of the plurality of ranked pieces of information that constitute the individual information from among a plurality of ranks; the disclosure procedure storing section is registered with an information disclosure procedure according to each rank within each individual assigned by each individual; and the disclosure procedure executing section receives the request for disclosing the corresponding individual information of the specific individual, and executes an information disclosure procedure stored in the disclosure procedure storing section matching an information disclosure procedure corresponding to a rank assigned to the individual information of the specific individual of which disclosure request is received.