Patent ID: 8190617

Claim:
An information transmission apparatus, comprising: reception means for receiving a plurality of taste information that represent respective tastes of a plurality of users from a plurality of terminal apparatuses of the plurality of users; storage means for storing the received plurality of taste information and group information in association with the plurality of users; search means for receiving, from a first user, an introduction request including search key information that is a subset of taste information of the first user, the search key information being selected by the first user concurrently with generating the introduction request, and searching for a second user associated with taste information having a resemblance to the search key information from the plurality of taste information stored in association with the plurality of users in the storage means; retrieval means for retrieving at least taste information or group information associated with the second user for introduction to the first user, the retrieved taste information or group information not being associated with the first user; and transmission means for transmitting the retrieved taste information or group information associated with the second user to a terminal apparatus corresponding to the first user, wherein the plurality of taste information includes page titles for music information pages and corresponding uniform resource locators (URLs) for the music information pages, the music information pages being selected by each of the plurality of users, and wherein an overlap between the taste information of the first user and each of the plurality of taste information is determined and each of the plurality of taste information is displayed ordered in accordance with the determined overlap.