Patent ID: 7174461

Claim:
An information providing system comprising a user identifying device and an information providing apparatus, wherein: said user identifying device comprises: user identifying means for identifying a user based on a password inputted using a user terminal; user information storage means for storing personal user information related to the identified user; user information taking-out means for taking out at least a portion of the personal user information from prescribed said user information storage means; control information creating means for creating control information based on said personal user information taken out by said user information taking-out means; link data transmitting means for transmitting link address data for accessing said information providing apparatus to said user terminal; and transmitting means for transmitting, when a request for access to information stored on said information providing apparatus using said link address data is received from said user terminal, said control information from said control information creating means to said information providing apparatus without sending the control information to said user terminal, and said information providing apparatus comprises: receiving means for receiving said control information from said user identifying device; and provision information supplying means for creating provision information having the contents corresponding to said personal user information based on said control information and supplying said provision information to said user terminal.