Patent ID: 7403920

Claim:
An information mediating apparatus for providing mediation services for a user, comprising: a mediating condition storing unit in which mediating condition list data describing specific mediating conditions necessary for mediation has been stored; and a mediation service processing unit which reads out the mediating condition list data designated in correspondence to a user request from said mediating condition storing unit, obtains information selected from another information storing unit on the basis of one item selected from a plurality of items described in specific conditions for the specific conditions having unfixed contents in the read-out mediating condition list data by merging the specific conditions, with said mediating conditions, generates mediation result information which satisfies said mediating condition list data including the specific conditions having the thus fixed contents; and a displaying unit that displays to the user said mediation result information that includes a list of items to be acquired by the user, wherein, in the case where a calculating instruction exists in the read-out mediating condition list data, said mediation service processing unit executes a predetermined calculating expression of the basis of other mediating conditions and merges a result of said calculation.