Patent ID: 7188136

Claim:
An information distributing method of distributing information via a communication path to an information user unit from a first information providing resource unit and a second information providing resource unit, in said second information providing resource unit, said method, comprising the steps of: receiving a program request from the information user unit which has received and displayed first information from said first information providing resource unit; transmitting a predetermined program code to the information user unit according to the program request; receiving a second request from said information user unit, said information request including an identifier of the first information and requesting said second information providing resource unit to transmit second information to said information user unit for displaying said second information linking to said first information, said second request being transmitted from said information user unit based on an execution of the program code in said information user unit; determining, in response to the information request, whether or not the second information is allowed to be displayed as being linked to said first information by checking a database indicating a correspondence between an identifier code of the second information and the identifier of the first information which is allowed to link to said second information; and if said database indicates that said second information requested by said information user unit is allowed to be linked to said first information displayed in said information user unit, transmitting said second information to said information user unit.