Patent ID: 7987183

Claim:
An information receiving system, comprising: an information providing device for providing various provide information formed with a predetermined format responding to a transfer request; and an information processing device for conducting information processing upon receiving said provide information transmitted from said information providing device via a predetermined network, wherein said information providing device comprises provide information forming means for forming said provide information including location information of a destination, a still picture of the destination, and comment data describing the destination and having a readable format that the information processing device can read, the comment data and the still picture being formed in a comment area set with said readable format according to a predetermined program; and transmission means for transmitting said provide information formed by said provide information forming means to said information processing device via said network; and said information processing device comprises receiving means for receiving said provide information transmitted via said network; analyzing means for analyzing said provide information received by said receiving means according to a predetermined analyzing program and for reading out said comment data and the still picture described in said comment area; control means for delivering said comment data and the still picture read out by said analyzing means to predetermined application software and conducting the information processing according to said predetermined application software; and means for displaying, in a first window, a map including a user-selectable icon representing the destination and for displaying, in a second window, different from the first window and not including a map, the comment data describing the destination and the still picture of the destination, wherein the means for displaying is configured to display the comment data and the still picture in respective subwindows of the second window in a predetermined spatial arrangement when a user selects the user-selectable icon.