Patent ID: 8141124

Claim:
A system for managing a user community provided in an information processing system, in which information provided by a user is made available to another user for reference, the system comprising: a storage section configured to store, using a computer processor, an audit policy defining contents of information permitted to be registered in a registered information database of the user community, and an individual policy that defines details, for each of a plurality of users, the information to be permitted to be registered into the registered information database by each respective one of the users in the user community; a detection section configured to detect the user community to which the information is provided, in response to provision of the information by the respective one of the users; a registration control section configured to cause the information provided by the respective one of the users to not be registered in the user community if the information violates the audit policy corresponding to the detected user community; and a browse control section configured to prevent selection of hyperlinks that connect to information that violates the individual policy for the respective one of the users.