摘要 |
<p>To improve usability and convenience, there is provided an information storage server which, when providing a service of storing contents designated by a user in a content storage portion and transmitting the contents to a content output terminal in response to an output request by the user, performs authentication based on authentication information notified by the user's using a predetermined main authentication information notification function through a predetermined procedure, and provides the contents to the user via the content output terminal when an affirmative authentication result is obtained, the information storage server including a substitutive authentication reception portion which receives authentication by a substitutive authentication information notification function in which at least one of the authentication information itself and the using procedure is different from the main authentication information notification function, when the main authentication information notification function is in a unusable state.</p> |