INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, ITS METHOD AND CLIENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide information providing system and method capable of improving the efficiency of communication in accordance with the acquisition of information provided from an information source server to a client whose throughput is low and to provide a client for efficiently acquiring various kinds of information provided by the server even when the throughput is low. SOLUTION: The client 20 requesting the acquisition of various kinds of information stored in the information source server 21 receives the information acquired from the server 21 temporarily stored in a cache memory 25 by an agent program 28 stored in a GW device 23 through the GW device 23 in accordance with the profile information of the client 20, the preference information of the user and the communication attribute information of a data communication network while effectively utilizing a data communication network. The client 20 stores the information received from the GW device 23 in a cache memory 26 based on attribute information 27 and recompiles the stored information in each access while considering the relationship of the stored information.