Information providing system and apparatus and methods therefor
First Claim
1. An information providing apparatus comprising:
- reception means for receiving transmission information to a user;
decision means for deciding, on the basis of user information of the user, a destination of the transmission information received by said reception means;
designation means for designating conversion such that data contained in the transmission information matches a format of the destination; and
providing means for providing to the destination data whose format is converted by the designation of said designation means.
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Abstract
A net database retains a user conversion setting table for designating the destination of electronic mail for each user. Based on the contents of the user conversion setting table of the user, a determination module determines the destination of electronic mail received via a mail server. The determination module uses an appropriate conversion module to convert the data of the electronic mail so as to match the output format of the destination. The determination module provides the converted data to the designated destination. Since the contents of the transmission information are converted into a data format corresponding to the capacity of a receiving-side terminal, appropriate information can be provided to the receiving-side terminal.
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42 Claims
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1. An information providing apparatus comprising:
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reception means for receiving transmission information to a user;
decision means for deciding, on the basis of user information of the user, a destination of the transmission information received by said reception means;
designation means for designating conversion such that data contained in the transmission information matches a format of the destination; and
providing means for providing to the destination data whose format is converted by the designation of said designation means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20)
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19. An information providing system comprising:
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user information retention means for retaining user information including designation of a destination of transmission information for each user;
reception means for receiving transmission information to a user;
decision means for acquiring user information of the user from said user information retention means and deciding the destination of the received transmission information on the basis of the user information;
conversion means for converting data contained in the transmission information so as to match a format of the destination; and
providing means for providing the format-converted data to the destination.
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21. An information providing method comprising:
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the reception step of receiving transmission information to a user;
the decision step of deciding, on the basis of user information of the user, a destination of the transmission information received in the reception step;
the designation step of designating conversion such that data contained in the transmission information matches a format of the destination; and
the providing step of providing to the destination data whose format is converted by the designation in the designation step. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40)
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39. An information providing method comprising:
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the user information retention step of retaining user information including designation of a destination of transmission information for each user;
the reception step of receiving transmission information to a user;
the decision step of acquiring user information of the user from the user information retention step and deciding the destination of the received transmission information on the basis of the user information;
the conversion step of converting data contained in the transmission information so as to match a format of the destination; and
the providing step of providing the format-converted data to the destination.
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41. A computer-readable storage medium which stores a control program for causing a computer to execute an information providing method comprising:
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the reception step of receiving transmission information to a user;
the decision step of deciding, on the basis of user information of the user, a destination of the transmission information received in the reception step;
the designation step of designating conversion such that data contained in the transmission information matches a format of the destination; and
the providing step of providing to the destination data whose format is converted by the designation in the designation step.
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42. A computer-readable storage medium which stores a control program for causing a computer to execute an information providing method comprising:
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the user information retention step of retaining user information including designation of a destination of transmission information for each user;
the reception step of receiving transmission information to a user;
the decision step of acquiring user information of the user from the user information retention step and deciding the destination of the received transmission information on the basis of the user information;
the conversion step of converting data contained in the transmission information so as to match a format of the destination; and
the providing step of providing the format-converted data to the destination.
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Specification