Patent ID: 7251652

Claim:
A community site constructing method for constructing a community site on a network, by utilizing a network including a central apparatus which manages a community site and includes a timer unit and a terminal device used by a representative of the community site or a member previously authorized by the representative to have access to the community site, the method comprising: registering personal information about the representative and theme information of the community site in a basic information database in association with identification information for identifying the representative of the community site; registering member information about a member in a member information database in association with identification information for identifying the member of the community site; registering commodity information about commodities to be provided in a commodity database in association with the theme information; extracting the commodity information from the commodity database based on the theme information registered in the basic information database and a chronological value; and transmitting the extracted commodity information from the central apparatus to the terminal device, wherein: the theme information includes information about the representative, a person related to the representative, a main theme including an event relating to the representative, and date-and time relating to the main theme; the commodity database has the commodity information about commodities to be provided, registered therein in association with the date-and-time information; and the chronological value is based on the date-and-time information of the theme information and date-and-time information output from the timer unit.