User Profile Management System

A management method for collecting user profiles from a user terminal, the management method executed by a computer being connected to the user terminal in which one or more applications operate, the management method comprising:

• a determination criteria storing step of storing user situation determination criteria for determining a user situation;
• a collecting step of collecting and storing user profiles created by the one or more applications;
• a request accepting step of accepting a request for a user profile from any of the one or more applications;
• a user situation managing step of determining a current user situation based on the user situation determination criteria in response to the request;
• a creating step of extracting one or more user profiles from the stored user profiles relating to the current user situation, and creating a comprehensive user profile of the current user situation based on the one or more extracted user profiles;
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• a transmitting step of transmitting the comprehensive user profile created by the creating step to a requester.

A management program causing a computer terminal to function as a management device for collecting user profiles from a user terminal in which any one or more applications operates, the management device being connected the user terminal, the management program causing the computer terminal to function as:

• determination criteria storing means for storing user situation determination criteria for determining a user situation;
• collecting means for collecting and storing user profiles created by the one or more applications;
• request accepting means for accepting a request for user profile from any of the one or more applications;
• user situation managing means for determining a current user situation based on the user situation determination criteria in response to the request;
• creating means for extracting one or more user profiles from the stored user profiles relating to the current user situation, and creating a comprehensive user profile of the current user situation based on the one or more extracted user profiles;
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• transmitting means for transmitting the user profile created by the user profile creating means to a requester.