Patent ID: 7558820

Claim:
A log collecting/analyzing system, comprising: a client terminal device having a determining unit operable to determine whether log collecting processing is executable, an executing unit operable to execute a selected application program to permit a user of the client terminal device to play a game, the application program being selected from a plurality of application programs executable on the client terminal device, and the application program being the object of log collection analysis processing when the result of the determination is that the processing is executable, a generating unit operable to generate log information, a collecting unit operable to collect log information generated by the generating unit and a transmitter operable to transmit collected log information via a network, the client terminal device being operable to authenticate the user and permit user control over log collecting processing by an authenticated user; a log server having a storing/analyzing unit operable to store and analyze the log information transmitted from the client terminal device which results from the log collecting processing under control of an authenticated user for each selected application program in a desired form including at least identification of the authenticated user of the client terminal device which transmitted the log information, a date of play, and information identifying a number of times each of a plurality of play modes are selected by the user; and log utilizing terminal devices each having a requesting unit operable to request analyzed log information from the log server via the network and a receiving unit operable to receive the analyzed log information from the log server, wherein the storing/analyzing unit of the log server analyzes the log information using procedures defined by the log utilizing terminal devices, each of the procedures is predetermined corresponding to each of the log utilizing devices and the log information is independently managed for each application program.