Cookie data stored on transportable recording medium
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideki Matsushima, Masayuki Kozuka
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Abstract
A transportable recording medium, such as a memory card (see FIG. 2) (110) includes an area for storing cookie information (222), such as user information, that has been encrypted using a public key obtained under a public key cryptosystem. This makes it easy to use the same cookie information in different terminals and has cookie information, which has conventionally been unique to respective terminals, become unique to respective users.
Claims35
A service providing method of providing a current user of a first apparatus with each of services that are provided by a plurality of other apparatuses via a network, the first apparatus being able to communicate with each of the plurality of other apparatuses via the network and being locally connectable to a recording medium, out of recording media that are uniquely assigned to users of the first apparatus, each recording medium being transportable and including an area for storing unique information,
- the service providing method comprising:
- a service requesting step where the first apparatus requests a second apparatus to provide a service desired by the current user, the second apparatus being one of the plurality of other apparatuses;
- a unique information reading step where if a recording medium of the current user is locally connected to the first apparatus and stores unique information, the second apparatus reads the unique information in the locally connected recording medium via the first apparatus and the network;
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- a service providing step where the second apparatus customizes the desired service according to the read unique information and transmits the customized service to the first apparatus.
A service providing method used by a first apparatus that receives each of services that are provided by a plurality of other apparatuses via a network and provides the received service to a current user of the first apparatus, the first apparatus being able to communicate with each of the plurality of other apparatuses via the network and being locally connectable to a recording medium, out of recording media that are uniquely assigned to users of the first apparatus, each recording medium being transportable and including an area for storing unique information,
- the service providing method comprising:
- a service requesting step where the first apparatus requests a second apparatus to provide a service desired by the current user, the second apparatus being one of the plurality of other apparatuses;
- a unique information transmitting step where if a recording medium of the current user is locally connected to the first apparatus and stores unique information, the first apparatus reads the unique information in the locally connected recording medium and transmits the read unique information to the second apparatus via the network;
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- a service providing step where the first apparatus receives a customized service from the second apparatus and provides the received service to the current user, wherein the customized service is generated at the second apparatus by customizing the desired service according to the transmitted unique information.
A service providing apparatus that receives each of services that are provided by a plurality of other apparatuses via a network and provides the received service to a current user of the service providing apparatus, the service providing apparatus being able to communicate with each of the plurality of other apparatuses via the network and being locally connectable to a recording medium, out of recording media that are uniquely assigned to users of the service providing apparatus, each recording medium being transportable and including an area for storing unique information
- the service providing apparatus comprising:
- a service requesting unit operable to request a specific apparatus, out of the plurality of other apparatuses, to provide a service desired by the current user;
- a unique information transmitting unit operable to read, if a recording medium of the current user is locally connected to the service providing apparatus and stores unique information, the unique information in the locally connected recording medium and transmit the read unique information to the specific apparatus via the network;
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- a service providing unit operable to receive a customized service from the specific apparatus and provide the received service to the current user, wherein the customized service is generated at the specific apparatus by customizing the desired service according to the transmitted unique information.
A recording medium which records a service providing program that has a first apparatus execute a procedure for receiving each of services that are provided by a plurality of other apparatuses via a network and providing the received service to a current user of the first apparatus, the first apparatus being able to communicate with each of the plurality of other apparatuses via the network and being locally connectable to a recording medium, out of recording media that are uniquely assigned to users of the first apparatus, each recording medium being transportable and including an area for storing unique information,
- the service providing program comprising:
- a service requesting step where the first apparatus requests a second apparatus to provide a service desired by the current user, the second apparatus being one of the plurality of other apparatuses;
- a unique information transmitting step where if a recording medium of the current user is locally connected to the first apparatus and stores unique information, the first apparatus reads the unique information in the locally connected recording medium and transmits the read unique information to the second apparatus via the network;
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- a service providing step where the first apparatus receives a customized service from the second apparatus and provides the received service to the current user, wherein the customized service is generated at the second apparatus by customizing the desired service according to the transmitted unique information.
A recording medium that is transportable and locally connectable to each Internet terminal, which runs a specialized Internet browser, and stores cookie information used through the Internet browser,
- wherein if an Internet terminal is locally connected to the recording medium, a Web site that is connected to the Internet terminal via the Internet stores and reads cookie information into and from the recording medium through the Internet browser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.