Patent ID: 8433992

Claim:
An information distribution system that distributes information acquired from a transmitter to a receiver, comprising: a storage unit that stores a plurality of output style sheets, which are information conversion rules including conditional expressions related to information distribution; an output data acquisition unit that acquires output data from the transmitter; a receiver information acquisition unit that acquires receiver information from the transmitter specifying an address of the receiver to which the output data is distributed and specifying the output style sheet corresponding to said receiver; a condition evaluation unit that determines whether or not the output data satisfies the conditional expression contained in the output style sheet specified by the receiver information; and a distribution unit that distributes converted output data, which is the output data converted based on the output style sheet, to the address specified by the receiver information when the output data satisfies the conditional expression, wherein the distribution unit does not distribute the converted output data to the address specified by the receiver information when the output data does not satisfy the conditional expression, the receiver information acquisition unit acquires a plurality of receiver information objects; and the plural receiver information objects specify output style sheets each including different expressions based on a hierarchical structure indicating and order of priority among the plural receiver information objects.