摘要 |
Disclosed are an information providing method and an embodying system thereof for authenticating in place of an information consumer under a security maintaining condition without exposing the information consumer's private information through an authentication agent having information contents and an authentication key as a software agent. In network and Internet environments, when refundable advertisement is provided, the present invention provides a system for authenticating in place of the information consumer without demanding to open the consumer's private information to the public. Therefore, without any burden, the information consumer receives and circulates refundable or payable information or purchases goods, thereby obtaining cash or goods as costs of accumulated consumption of the refundable information. An information provider and a mediator can transact business with each other through objective information supply and measurement of consumption rate. |