Patent ID: 7246155

Claim:
A server, connected to a plurality of user terminals through a network, manages character information of a plurality of users in each service provided to the users, comprising: a user name receiving system that receives, from at least one of the user terminals, a registration of user names to be used by the user within a predetermined service, each user name being selectively associated with different character information; a transmitter that transmits the received user names to the user terminal for display at the user terminal; a user name selection receiving system that receives, from the user terminal, a selection of a desired user name, from among the displayed user names, to be used by the user in the predetermined service; a storage that stores in a memory portion the received user name and character information to be used in the predetermined service in a linked manner; a converting system that blurs information relating to the user stored in the memory portion; and a transmitter that sends the blurred information to at least one user terminal of another user.