Patent ID: 7412485

Claim:
A system for approving and disclosing contents created by a user of an internal network to an external network, comprising: a distributing part distributing the content, via the internal network, to a predetermined group of members, the members tasked with examining the content and determining whether the content should be approved for disclosure; a collecting part collecting approval feedback from an unspecified number of the predetermined group of members as to whether the members approve or disapprove of the content to be disclosed; a comparing part comparing the collected approval feedback with a predetermined approval requirement; and a disclosing part disclosing the content to the external network if the collected approval feedback meets the predetermined approval requirement, wherein an approval deadline by which the approval requirement must be met is predetermined, and in a case that the approval feedback does not meet the approval requirement when the approval deadline comes due, the content is sent back to the user who created the content, a registrant, or a person tasked with approving the content as being disapproved for disclosure to the external network.