Patent ID: 7305452

Claim:
An information delivery system, comprising: a computer terminal; and an information provider server, wherein said computer terminal and said information provider server are connected with each other via a network; wherein said information provider server transmits content having an information receiving program or a tag for an information receiving program to said computer terminal in response to being accessed by said computer terminal, wherein said computer terminal executes a plurality of tasks, including a browser application, in a plurality of application windows simultaneously displayed on the computer terminal, and the content is displayed by the browser application in one window of the plurality of windows; wherein said computer terminal accesses and retrieves delivery information from a predetermined server via the network by the browser application, and without changing information displayed in other windows of the plurality of windows, automatically displays the delivery information in the one window, in the case where, after said browser application displays the content in the one window, it is judged that an entering operation is not executed in the one window for a predetermined period of time by said information receiving program or the information receiving program obtained by the tag, even when an entering operation is executed in the other windows during the predetermined period of time; and wherein said information receiving program is terminated when an entering operation is executed in the one window to access information other than the content transmitted by the information service provided or to close the one window.