Patent ID: 8504647

Claim:
An information distribution system comprising: a storage unit that stores a style sheet describing information conversion rules; an output data acquisition unit that acquires output data from a transmitter; a distribution information acquisition unit that acquires distribution information containing first receiver information and second receiver information, the first receiver information corresponding to a first receiver and including first information specifying the address of the first receiver and a first style sheet defining information conversion rules for the first receiver, and the second receiver information corresponding to a second receiver to which information is distributed after distribution to the first receiver; a distribution unit that distributes conversion data resulting from converting the output data according to the style sheet specified by the first receiver information or the second receiver information to the first receiver or the second receiver; and a distribution decision unit that determines if distribution of the conversion data by the distribution unit was successful; the distribution unit distributing the output data to the second receiver based on the second receiver information in accordance with the result of the distribution success decision of the distribution decision unit, which decides if distribution of first conversion data converted according to the first style sheet to the first receiver was successful.