摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the convenience of a service provision system for providing a plurality of types of services, by appropriately evaluating each service and providing the evaluation result for a user terminal device. <P>SOLUTION: A composite machine 10 generates, in a bookmark file and a use history file, history information on operations made by users to receive services provided by service software 37 at the peripheral, and sends the contents of the files to a directory server 20. The directory server 20 receives the information, registers use content data representing the contents of the files in a service use information database 27 about every composite machine 10, evaluates each service provided by a function server 30 according to the data, and records the result in an evaluation table 28. Service definition information 25 is updated according to the evaluation table to include the evaluation result information therein, and the service definition information is sent to the multifunction peripheral. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |