MESSAGING SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a messaging system which can increase versatility and improve convenience while constructing a secure environment between with an information communication terminal outside a mobile communication network and is excellent in extendability relating to a distribution server which distributes messages in the mobile communication network. SOLUTION: An intermediate server 20 communicates with the information communication terminal 50 by using a general purpose protocol used for message distribution in the Internet, receives the message of a distribution object from the information communication terminal 50 together with terminal identification information of a distribution destination, and transfers the message of the distribution object to distribution servers 30 and 35 with the terminal identification information as a destination. The distribution servers 30 and 35 distribute the message of the distribution object received from the intermediate server 20 to a mobile communication terminal 60 specified by the terminal identification information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT