Sony Corporation

Motohiro Ohama

Minoru Nagata

Osamu Aoki

Yoshimichi Kitaya

Akinori Iida

Atsushi Sakaida

Yoshifumi Ueno

Hirokazu Tsuchiya

Tetsuo Sasaki

Yoshihiro Tamura

Mitsuhiro Nishibe

Tomihiko Nakajima

Takuya Kajikawa

Masayuki Kobuna

Shinichiro Taya

Kazuhiro Gotoh

Haruhiko Sakaguchi

Toshiyuki Gotoh, Legal Representative

In service providing apparatus and method, system identification data for specifying a service target device and the user of the device concerned are issued to the device concerned, and authentication processing is carried out on the basis of the system identification data to provide a service to the device concerned.

Service providing apparatus and server providing method

On receiving from a personal computer () a request for transmitting data for displaying a picture for inputting a user's profile in association with an MGID and an APID for specifying the personal computer (), an EMD registration server () selects data recorded in correspondence to the APID based on the received APID and transmits the selected data to the personal computer (). The EMD registration server () receivers the user's profile inputted based on the data from the personal computer () and records the user's profile in correspondence to the MGID.

Registering device and method, information processing device and method, providing device and method, and program storage medium

An information providing system, an information providing apparatus, an information providing method, and a program storing medium makes it possible to always provide provision information suitable for personal user information about a user regardless a user's terminal the user uses. Provided are a user identifying meansfor identifying a user, a user information taking-out meansfor taking out personal user information about the identified user from a user information storage means, a control information creating meansfor creating control information based on the taken-out user information, and a provision information supplying meansfor creating provision information suitable for the personal user information on the basis of the control information and supplying it to the user.

Information providing system, apparatus and method, and program storing medium

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Motohiro Ohama