Information management system using agent

An agent employment system comprising:

• a data terminal connected to a communications network;
• and
• a server computer connected to the data terminal by the communications network and having a region for storing an agent,
• wherein the server computer has first agent-transmitting means for transmitting the agent to the data terminal at a first timing, and said data terminal has agent-receiving means for receiving the agent transmitted from the server computer and second agent-transmitting means for transmitting the agent to the server computer at a second timing.

An information management method comprising:

• transmitting an agent to a data terminal, together with first prescribed information, upon receipt of a transmission command for transmitting the agent;
• transmitting the agent from the data terminal to a server computer, together with second prescribed information, upon lapse of a prescribed time after the data terminal has received the agent;
• and
• rewiring the first prescribed information to the second prescribed information in the server computer.

An agent employment method comprising:

• selecting an agent stored in a specific region of a computer;
• transmitting the agent selected, to a data terminal at a first timing, together with first prescribed information;
• and
• receiving the agent at second timing, together with second prescribed information.

A server computer connected to a data terminal through a communications network and having a region for storing an agent, said sever computer comprising:

• transmitting means for transmitting the agent to the data terminal, together with first prescribed information, at a first timing upon receipt of a transmission command for transmitting the agent;
• receiving means for receiving the agent at a second timing, together with second prescribed information;
• and
• rewriting means for rewriting the first prescribed information to second prescribed information.

A data-recording medium storing a program comprising the steps of:

• selecting an agent stored in a specific region of a computer;
• transmitting the agent selected, to a data terminal at a first timing, together with first prescribed information;
• receiving the agent at a second timing, together with second prescribed information;
• and
• rewriting the first prescribed information to the second prescribed information.