METHOD FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER PLACED OVER INTERNET FROM PORTABLE TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER USED BY THE ACCESSING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To access an information providing server over the network of the Internet from a portable terminal without inputting a URL. ;SOLUTION: A 1st information providing server 2 that stores characters, numeric characters and symbols which respectively specify the other information providing servers 3 to 8 over the network of the Internet and at least one piece of or more information (e.g., the name of an information provider, a URL and the name or type of an information service) offered by each information provider as data, is prepared. When a portable telephone 9 accesses the server 2, information related to the offer by the information providers is retrieved in the server 2, and the access from the portable terminal is connected to an information-providing server 3 to 8 offering the selected information via a link function.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO