Patent ID: 7363658

Claim:
A personal information intermediary method which is performed by an intermediary system having a first recording medium that stores respective items of personal information of registered users and a second recording medium that stores respective items of destination information of registered local terminals, comprising: receiving a transmission request, including a personal information selection result and a destination selection result, which is sent by a particular user among the registered users, wherein the intermediary system has an item/group file defining a relationship between transmission items and predefined groups of the personal information, and wherein the personal information selection result indicates a result of the particular user's selection of a group, from among the predefined groups, of the particular user's personal information, wherein each group of the particular user's personal information may comprise one or plural items of personal information within the respective group; acquiring a requested personal information item from the first recording medium by retrieving the item/group file to obtain correspondence between the requested personal information item and the selected personal information group indicated by the personal information selection result; acquiring a requested destination information item from the second recording medium, the requested destination information item corresponding to the destination selection result of the received transmission request; transmitting the personal information item of the particular user to a particular local terminal among the registered local terminals that is indicated by the destination information item; and receiving a confirmation result message from an authority terminal, the confirmation result message confirming the authenticity of the transmitted personal information, wherein when an authority confirmation is needed for the received transmission request and the requested personal information item is either a health insurance certificate item or a driver's license item, a confirmation request message is created by retrieving the item/group file and reading from the item/group file a record corresponding to either the health insurance certificate item or the driver's license item, and the confirmation request message is transmitted to the authority terminal.