TERMINAL APPLIANCE, PROVISION SERVER, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION USE METHOD, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, TERMINAL APPLIANCE PROGRAM, PROVISION SERVER PROGRAM, INTERMEDIATION PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an appliance authentication system or the like capable of efficiently executing authentication, in use of service via a network. SOLUTION: A CE appliance 3 has a browser 9 for accessing a service server 4, and an authentication module 7 executing appliance authentication in an authentication server 5. An appliance authentication plug-in 8 is a plug-in having a function starting the authentication module 7. The appliance authentication plug-in 8 can be specified by a prescribed MIME type, and the browser 9 starts the appliance authentication plug-in 8 when receiving an EMBED tag having the MIME type. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI