Electronic bulletin board managing apparatus and message notifying method

An electronic bulletin board management apparatus comprising:

• a memory for storing data written from a plurality of communication terminals, in memory areas partitioned for the respective communication terminals;
• a transmitting unit for, when a piece of data is stored in the memory by a writing process from one communication terminal, transmitting transmission information containing notification information to indicate that the data was stored in the memory, and link information for a link to a memory area storing the piece of data in the memory, to an arbitrary communication terminal;
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• a delivering unit for delivering the data stored in the memory, so as to be browsable for the arbitrary communication terminal, in response to a request from the arbitrary communication terminal to which the transmitting unit transmitted the transmission information.

A message notification method comprising:

• storing data written from a plurality of communication terminals, in memory areas partitioned for the respective communication terminals;
• transmitting, when in the storing a piece of data is stored by a writing process from one communication terminal, transmission information containing notification information to indicate that the data was stored by the storing, and link information for a link to a memory area storing the piece of data, to an arbitrary communication terminal;
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• delivering the data stored, so as to be browsable for the arbitrary communication terminal, in response to a request from the arbitrary communication terminal to which the transmission information was transmitted by the transmitting.