Patent ID: 7752257

Claim:
A method of providing information, via a network, to an information device capable of setting a user identifier carrying a medium type indicating an information type matching the information device and identifying an information-provided user, and also capable of connection to the network, the method comprising the steps of: issuing a user identifier to a user who makes a contract for an information service, and entering and storing user profile data indicating information to be provided correspondingly to the user identifier; connecting to an information serving device to which the information device is connected via the network, the information serving device including: a database having recorded therein user profile data indicating information to be served correspondingly to the user identifier and content data associated with a medium type and information genre; and a request handling means for searching, upon request from the information device, the database to acquire the content data from the database and supplying the information device with the content data as content data of a medium type matching the information device, searching, upon request from the information device, the database, to acquire the information to be provided based on the user profile data; and providing the information as content data of the medium type matching the information device to the information device via the network, wherein information, which is to be provided based on the user profile data acquired from the database having recorded therein, in association with each other, the user profile data including an user identifier, preference information, phone number and device setting information, is acquired from the database, converted into content data of the data type matching the information device, and provided to the information device.