Patent ID: 7275090

Claim:
An information apparatus comprising: user-designated information acquiring means for acquiring sequential user-designated information which changes in accordance with time at a constant period or cycle, the acquired sequential information including information regarding selections made by a user; accuracy setting means for specifying accuracy setting information in response to user input, said accuracy setting information including a ratio of disclosure of the acquired sequential information to an external device; and information notifying means controlled according to the accuracy setting information specified by the accuracy setting means for transmitting log information which changes in accordance with time to the external device, said log information being obtained by restricting acquired sequential information according to the ratio of disclosure, further comprising: pseudo information generating means configured to generate pseudo user-designated information composed of the same format as user-designated information, wherein the pseudo user-designated information comprises at least some content to be regarded as user-designated information and at least some content that is different from the user-designated information, wherein a part of the acquired sequential information from the user-designated information acquiring means is replaced with the pseudo user-designated information according to the ratio of disclosure to form the log information.