Patent ID: 8209326

Claim:
An information receiving system, comprising: an information providing device configured to provide information formed with a predetermined format responding to a transfer request; and an information processing device configured to conduct information processing upon receiving said provide information transmitted from said information providing device via a predetermined network, wherein said information providing device comprises a receiver configured to receive information including location information of a destination, icon information that is selected from plural kinds of icons corresponding to a category of the destination, and comment data describing the destination from said information processing device; a provide information forming unit configured to form said provide information including the location information, the icon information, and the comment data received from said receiver and having a readable format that the information processing device can read, the comment data being formed in a comment area set with said readable format according to a predetermined program; and a transmitter configured to transmit said provide information formed by said provide information forming unit to said information processing device via said network; and said information processing device comprises a receiver configured to receive said provide information transmitted via said network; an analyzer configured to analyze said provide information received by said receiver according to a predetermined analyzing program and to read out said comment data formed in said comment area; a controller configured to deliver said comment data read out by said analyzer to predetermined application software and conduct the information processing according to said predetermined application software; and a display configured to display, in a first window, a map including an icon image corresponding to the icon information on a position corresponding to the location information and to display, in a second window, different from the first window and not including a map, the comment data describing the destination, wherein the second window is displayed adjacent to, but not overlapping, the first window in which the map is displayed.