Patent ID: 8131874

Claim:
A meta data customizing method for customizing meta data in a system in which the meta data is delivered from a delivering apparatus having a function to deliver the meta data which is described in a structured language, to a user apparatus, and the meta data is used, comprising: making a meta data obtaining request to the delivering apparatus from the user apparatus, the request comprising a designation by a relative position from a predetermined element of an element to customize, which element exists in a predetermined location of a description of the structured language of the meta data to be obtained, as well as a format designation designating a variable to be located in the element and a format thereof; and every time dynamically replacing the contents of the corresponding element of the description of the structured language of the meta data to be outputted, with a value corresponding to the variable and the format designated by the format designation, based on the designation of the element and the format designation, according to different requests from respective user apparatuses, in the delivering apparatus.