Patent ID: 7373375

Claim:
An information management system, comprising: at least one data terminal connected to a communications network and having a display device; and a server computer connected to said at least one data terminal over the communications network and having a region for storing an agent that has an independent network address which indicates the location of the agent within the communications network, said server computer including: transmitting means for transmitting at a first timing, if said server computer receives a transmission command initiated by a user, the agent together with first prescribed information from the server computer to one of said at least one data terminal from which the user requested the agent, and rewriting means for rewriting the first prescribed information into second prescribed information sent from the data terminal of the user; said data terminal including: transmitting means for transmitting the agent and the second prescribed information to the server computer at a second timing; wherein the first timing and the second timing are established before the agent is transmitted to the at least one data terminal, and over a time interval between the first timing and the second timing, said data terminal temporarily assumes the independent network address of the agent or said server computer temporarily replaces the independent network address of the agent with a network address assigned to the data terminal; and wherein the agent has an agent displaying program for displaying the agent as an electronic pet, and the agent displaying program changes image-processing parameters according to types of the data terminal, the data terminal displaying the agent.