SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION, DATA DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, DATA RECEIVING DEVICE, AND DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING DATA

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to obtain information which includes only what the user needs from many kinds of and large volume of information while reducing necessity for disclosing the personal information and taste or the like of an information recipient as much as possible in the provision of information via a network from a business firm such as a company and so on to the user such as a consumer and so on. SOLUTION: A message header part is transmitted to a connection management server, and the connection management server determines whether the message header part is permitted to be transmitted to a client device. When the server determines that the transmission is permitted, it transmits the message header part to the client device. The client device determines whether to select the message header part based on the attribute data and so on in the message header part which it receives. When it determines to select the message header part, it receives the main body part of a message as the main body of contents from a message main body part transmission server by using acquisition destination data and so on in the selected message header part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI