Patent ID: 6892223

Claim:
An information providing system having a first server, a second server, a third server, a terminal, and a communication circuit connecting each of said servers with the terminal, characterized in that said first server has storage means for storing a list of data of characters which a user can obtain, and a server address at which a character display data for displaying said characters is stored, and means for conducting communication with each other through said terminal and said communication circuit, said second server has storage means for storing said character display data and a schedule file for managing information in relation to the characters, and means for conducting communication with each other through said terminal and said communication circuit, said third server has storage means for storing a data of information in relation to said characters, and means for conducting communication with each other through said terminal and said communication circuit, and said terminal has means for communicating with said first server, second server and third server, means for down-loading said list of data from said first server and displaying a list of the characters that can be obtained, means for down-loading an address of the second server in which the character display data of a character selected from said first server is stored by selecting an arbitrary character from said list of the characters, means for down-loading said character display data and the schedule file corresponding to these characters from said second server, based on the address of said second server, means for down-loading an information data described in said schedule file from said third server, means for displaying characters on a desktop based on the down-loaded character display data, and means for providing information by means of the down-loaded information data based on a schedule described in said schedule file.