Patent ID: 7328253

Claim:
A service-providing system, comprising: a service-providing terminal that provides a service; and a client terminal that receives a service, the service-providing and client terminals being connected and capable of communication, and a service corresponding to service content selected from a plurality of service contents being provided in response to a service-providing request from the client terminal; the service-providing terminal including: a list-sending device that sends a list of service-selection information which is to be a factor of selecting the service content in response to the service-providing request; a service-selection device that selects a service content to provide from the plurality of service contents based on a selection result of the service-selection information when receiving the selection result from the client terminal; a service-providing device that provides the client terminal with a service corresponding to the service content selected by the service-selection device; and a service-reference information sending device that sends service-reference information indicating references of a plurality of service content included in the list of the service-selection information to the client terminal; and the client terminal including: a user-information storing device that stores user information regarding a user; an information-selecting device that selects the service-selection information from the list of the service selection information based on the user information of the user-information storing device when receiving the list of the service-selection information from the service-providing terminal; a selection-result sending device that sends a selection result of the information-selecting device to the service-providing terminal; and a user-information update device that updates the user information of the user-information storing device based on the service-reference information when receiving the service-reference information from the service-providing terminal, the user information including interest information regarding a user's interest or preferences, the user-information update device adding new interest information to the user information, automatically updating the interest information in the user information to new interest information, or deleting the interest information in the user information based on the service-reference information.