JP2002197357A - Information providing system and information editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow plural companies to collectively provide providing information individually issued as information to be provided for customers for the individual customers in an information providing system for providing various information for the customers from enterprises. SOLUTION: Plural service providing companies A to D have respectively information transmitters. These information transmitters generate transmission information including the providing information and identification information (ID) to be provided for the individual customers, and individually transmit these information to an information editing company 10. The information editing company 10 has an information editing device. The information editing device arranges the information transmitted from the plural service providing companies A to D, and make editing data including the whole providing information with every customer. The various providing information are collectively distributed to the individual customers 1 to 4 in a state of being collected in the form of the editing data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to an information providing system and an information editing apparatus, and more particularly to an information providing system and an information editing apparatus suitable for providing various information from a company to a customer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Securities companies mail documents such as monthly reports to customers as appropriate. Credit card companies distribute monthly usage statements and advertisements to customers by mail. Similarly, banks and other companies that handle personal assets also provide services for mailing statutory documents and the like to customers. In the future, defined contribution pensions (so-called Japanese version 40
If a company handling 1k) starts business, even the new company will need to send reports and the like to customers on a regular basis.

[0003]

Heretofore, these documents have been mailed individually for each company and each document. This has placed a heavy burden on individual companies to mail those documents. This cost of mailing is particularly problematic for firms with defined contribution pensions, as the costs of managing individual customers must be small.

Further, according to the above-mentioned conventional method, various documents are mailed to each customer from a plurality of financial institutions in May. In this respect, the conventional method is not preferable for the customer because the management of documents becomes complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides collectively to individual customers information to be issued individually by a plurality of companies as information to be provided to the customers. It is a first object to provide an information providing system for the purpose. A second object of the present invention is to provide an information editing device that can be used in the above information providing system.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
A plurality of information transmitting devices, and an information providing system having one information editing device, wherein the information transmitting device is a transmitting side database that records identification information of each customer and information provided to each customer. A transmission-side data processing unit that reads information recorded in the transmission-side database and generates transmission information including identification information and provision information for each customer; and a communication that transmits the transmission information to the information editing device. Unit, the information editing device, the editing database to record the transmission information transmitted from a plurality of transmission information providing device, from the editing database,
An editing-side data processing unit that reads out the provided information for each customer and generates edited data including the provided information to be supplied to each customer.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the information providing system according to the first aspect, the information transmitting apparatus further includes means for attaching type information indicating a type to each piece of provided information, The editing-side data processing unit has editing means for collecting the editing data into data in a page format according to a predetermined page setting. Further, the editing means performs the same type of editing on the basis of the type information of each provided information. Is assigned to a set area in the editing data.

[0008] The invention described in claim 3 is claim 1 or 2.
The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein at least one information transmitting device includes: a unit configured to acquire interest information indicating an object of interest of each customer; and a unit configured to include the interest information of each customer in the transmission information. The information editing apparatus comprises: an advertisement database that records a plurality of types of advertisement information; an advertisement selection unit that selects, from the advertisement database, advertisement information that matches interest information of each customer; Is included in the information provided by each customer.

The invention according to claim 4 is the invention according to claim 1 or 2.
The information providing system as described above, wherein at least one information transmitting device is configured to acquire interest information indicating an interest target of each customer, an advertisement database recording a plurality of types of advertisement information, and An advertisement selection unit that selects advertisement information that matches interest information of each customer; and a unit that includes the selected advertisement information in the transmission information, wherein the information editing device provides the advertisement information It is provided to individual customers as part of information.

[0010] The invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to claim 3 or 4.
The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the interest information includes genre information on a genre that each customer is interested in, and narrowing information for further narrowing down an object of interest in the genre. The selection means determines a genre of an advertisement to be included in the provided information based on the genre information, and further specifies an advertisement to be included in the provided information based on the narrowing-down information.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the information providing system according to any one of the third to fifth aspects, the at least one information transmitting apparatus records life plan information of each customer. It is characterized by further comprising a life plan information database and means for generating individual customer interest information based on the life plan information.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the information providing system according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the information editing apparatus prints the edited data as a publication for each customer. Is further provided.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the information providing system according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the information editing device transmits the edited data as an electronic publication for each customer. It is characterized by further comprising means.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information editing apparatus for editing transmission information individually transmitted from a plurality of information transmission apparatuses for each customer, wherein the information is transmitted from the plurality of transmission information providing apparatuses. An editing-side database for recording incoming transmission information, means for identifying identification information included in the transmission information, and means for recognizing provided information included in the transmission information for providing to each customer, An editing-side data processing unit that reads out the providing information related to the same identification information from among the providing information recorded in the editing-side database, and generates editing data to be provided to a customer that matches the identification information; It is characterized by having.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in the information editing apparatus according to the ninth aspect, the editing-side data processing unit is configured to provide each of the provided information based on the type information attached to each of the provided information. Means for judging the type of data, and editing means for compiling the edited data into data in a page format according to a predetermined page setting.
Based on the type of each provided information, the same type of provided information is
The editing data is allocated to a set area.

According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, in the information editing apparatus according to the ninth or tenth aspect, means for recognizing interest information included in the transmission information as information representing an interest target of each customer. And an advertisement database storing a plurality of types of advertisement information; an advertisement selection unit for selecting advertisement information matching interest information of each customer from the advertisement database; and providing the selected advertisement information to each customer. Means for including in information.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the information editing apparatus according to the eleventh aspect, the means for recognizing the interest information includes, from the interest information, a genre to which each customer is interested. Means for detecting genre information to be represented, and means for recognizing narrowing information for further narrowing down an object of interest in the genre, wherein the advertisement selecting means includes an advertisement to be included in provided information based on the genre information. Is determined, and the content of the advertisement included in the provided information is specified based on the narrowing-down information.

The invention according to claim 13 is the information editing apparatus according to claim 9 or 10, further comprising means for recognizing advertisement information included in the transmission information, wherein the advertisement information is It is provided to each customer as a part of the provided information.

The invention according to claim 14 is the invention according to claims 9 to 13
The information editing apparatus according to any one of the above, further comprising means for printing the edited data as a publication for each customer.

The invention according to claim 15 is the invention according to claims 9 to 13
The information editing apparatus according to any one of the above, further comprising means for transmitting the edited data as an electronic publication for each customer.

[0021]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a flow of information processed by an information providing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, basic functions of the information providing system of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, the information providing system of the present embodiment is mainly realized by a plurality of service providing companies (FIG. 1 shows four companies A to D) and an information editing company 10. . Each of the service providing companies A to D is a company that needs to provide various kinds of information to the customer, for example, a securities company that needs to provide a customer with a document such as a monthly report of transactions, A credit card company that needs to issue a statement to a customer corresponds to this. It is also assumed that the service providing company concurrently works as the information editing company 10.

Hereinafter, in the present embodiment, each of the service providing companies A to D is specifically the following company. Service provider A: Securities company Service provider B: Operation management organization (Operating company for defined contribution pension) Service provider C: Credit card company Service provider D: Partner bank However, these companies are examples of service providers And the service provider is not limited to the above-mentioned companies.
For example, a life insurance company or a travel agency may be added to the operation of the system as a service provider.

The securities company (service providing company A) regularly provides materials such as monthly reports (monthly) and asset management reports (every three months), or prospectuses for products that are likely to be of interest to customers. The service is distributed to the customer, or as needed.

The management organization (service provider B)
It is a company that handles defined contribution pensions, that is, the so-called Japanese version 401k (hereinafter simply referred to as "401k").
The management organization provides a service to periodically distribute reports to customers entrusted with pension management.

The credit card company (service provider C) provides a service for providing users with monthly usage statements and various advertisements. In some cases, the partner bank (service providing company D) may request distribution of a mortgage balance report, advertisements for various loans, and the like to customers.

As described above, the service providers A to D each need or need to provide various kinds of information to the customer. Hereinafter, these pieces of information, that is, information that the service providers A to D want to provide to customers are referred to as “provided information”.

Conventionally, information provided by a plurality of service providers has been individually mailed to customers via printing companies and the like. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the information provided by the service providers A to D is once collected in the information editing company 10 in the form of electronic data. In addition to the provided information, the information editing company 10 sends electronic data formats from a plurality of advertisers (FIG. 1 shows three types of advertisers (a), (b), and (c)). Is collecting advertising information.

The information editing company 10 is a service providing company A
To D are edited for each customer, and the edited information is combined with appropriate advertisement information to create edited data for each customer. Then, the information editing company 10 provides the edited data created in this way to individual customers (four customers 1 to 4 are shown in FIG. 1). Here, the editing data is provided by mailing a printed matter of the editing data or by transmitting the editing data in the form of an electronic mail or an HTML screen.

According to the information flow described above, information provided from a plurality of service providers A to D is distributed to individual customers collectively. In this case, the service providing companies A to D have an advantage that the cost (mailing cost or electric transmission cost) required for distributing the provided information can be reduced. Further, on the customer side, since a plurality of provided information are provided collectively, there is an advantage that the information management becomes easy.

Next, the configuration and functions of the information providing system of the present embodiment will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining a configuration of the information transmitting device arranged on the service provider side. The information transmission devices arranged in the service providers A to D have substantially the same configuration except that the types of information to be handled are different. For this reason, here, as a representative example thereof, the configuration and operation of a device arranged in an operation management organization (service providing company B) will be described.

As shown in FIG. 2, the information transmission device arranged in the operation management organization has an input interface (I / F).
12, a transmission-side data processing unit 14, and a communication interface (I / F) 16. The input I / F 12 is a unit used for inputting data and the like. The transmission-side data processing unit 14 is a unit that performs a main operation associated with data processing. The communication I / F 16 is a unit for transmitting data from the information transmitting device to a communication line.

The information transmitting apparatus further includes a transmitting database 18. The transmission-side database 18 records various information (hereinafter, referred to as “transmission information”) transmitted from the operation management organization to the information editing company 10.
More specifically, the transmitting side database 18 records identification information (ID) for identifying each customer, provided data to be provided to each customer, and life plan information to be described later. I have.

In the present embodiment, the management organization (service provider company B) handles 401k as a product and also performs consulting work on personal assets. In other words, the operation management organization requests each customer to submit a life plan, and performs an operation of giving advice on how to manage assets according to the life plan.

The life plan includes matters that are expected to have a large expenditure, when the expenditure occurs, and the like.
For example, when the child enters the school and the amount of expected expenses associated with it, the planned replacement time of the private car, the price range of the car to be replaced, the planned purchase time of the house and its price range, and the life plan of retirement, etc. Submitted to the management organization. The above-mentioned life plan information recorded in the transmission side database 18 is information of the life plan submitted by each customer in this way. Based on those life plans, the operation management organization plans to secure necessary funds, portfolios of assets under management (ratio of various assets under management), and price ranges of private cars and houses to be purchased. To give advice.

The transmission-side data processing section 14 creates transmission information to be transmitted to the information editing company 10 based on various information recorded in the transmission-side database 18.
FIG. 3 shows a configuration of transmission information created for one customer. As shown in FIG. 3, the transmission information includes ID2
0, provided information 22, and interest information 24.

The ID 20 is information for specifying a customer, and corresponds to the customer's address, name, date of birth, and the like. The provided information 22 is information to be provided by the operation management organization to each member of the system, and includes, for example, asset information, a prospectus for products, and various types of investment information. Also,
The interest information 24 is information indicating a target that each customer is currently interested in estimated from the life plan information.

The interest information 24 includes genre information indicating a genre in which the customer is highly interested. By submitting a life plan, the management organization knows when each customer will purchase a private car or house. Customers who plan to buy a private car soon can be estimated to have a strong interest in the car genre. In addition, it can be estimated that a customer whose home purchase schedule time is approaching has a strong interest in a genre such as a house, furniture, or moving. The transmission-side data processing unit 14 creates genre information by performing such estimation based on the life plan information. The genre information may be included in the transmission information in a format indicating the frequency of interest for all of a plurality of predetermined genres, or may be included in the transmission information in a format in which only genres of interest are extracted and represented. good.

The interest information 24 also includes narrowing-down information for further narrowing down an object of interest in the genre of interest of the customer. As described above, the life plan information also includes information such as a purchase budget for a private car or a house. Further, the management organization keeps track of the asset status and age of each customer. As a result,
It is possible to estimate to some extent the type of car or house that the customer intends to purchase. The transmission side data processing unit 14
The above narrowing-down information is created by performing such an estimation process.

More specifically, in the information transmission device of the operation management organization, elements for narrowing down the objects of interest, that is, elements for creating narrowing information (purchase budget, asset status, customer Age, etc.) are predetermined for each genre. Transmission side data processing unit 14
Extracts, for each genre that the customer is interested in, elements for narrowing down the objects of interest from various information in the transmission-side database 18. Then, the refinement information is created for each genre of interest by applying those elements to a decision rule predetermined for each genre.

The above description is a description of a method by which the management organization creates interest information mainly based on life plan information, but the method of creating interest information is not limited to this. No, other service provider A,
It is also possible to create interest information in C, D, and the like.
In other words, since the credit card company (service provider C) has information on the type of store where the user uses the card, the customer interest information can be created based on the information. it can. Further, a securities company (service provider A) or a partner bank (service provider D) can create interest information by, for example, investigating customer interest in the form of a questionnaire.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram for explaining the configuration of the information editing apparatus arranged on the information editing company 10 side. As shown in FIG. 4, the information editing device includes an input interface (I / F) 26, an editing-side data processing unit 28, and a communication interface (I / F) 30. The input I / F 26 is a unit used for data input and the like. The editing-side data processing unit 28 is a unit that performs main calculations and the like accompanying data processing. The communication I / F 30 receives transmission information transmitted from the service providers A to D, and transmits the information when providing information to the customers 1 to 4 in the form of e-mail. Unit.

The information editing device further includes an editing database 32. The editing-side database 32 records information (reception information) received from a plurality of service providers A to D, and also stores advertisers (a), (b),
The advertisement information provided from (c) (for example, advertisement information for each vehicle type) is recorded.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the structure of received information for one customer recorded in the editing side database 32, that is, recorded information for each customer. In the present embodiment, the information provided from the service providers A to D is recorded in the editing side database 32 in a state where the information is arranged for each customer as shown in FIG. More specifically, the editing side database 32 records the provided information 22 and the interest information 24 transmitted from the service providers A to D in a state of being associated with the ID 20 of each customer.

The record information for each customer shown in FIG. 5 is transmitted when the transmission information is received from each of the service providers A to D.
It is generated by executing the following processing by the editing-side data processing unit 28. That is, when receiving the transmission information, the editing-side data processing unit 28 first recognizes the ID included therein. Next, the editing-side data processing unit 28
Detects the provided information and the interest information included in the received transmission information. Finally, the editing-side data processing unit 28 records the provided information and the interest information in the editing-side database 32 in a state where the information is associated with the detected ID.

The information editing apparatus stores, on an editing date (for example, a predetermined date every month) predetermined according to the agreement of the plurality of service providing companies A to D, a customer-specific record recorded in the editing database 32 at that time. The editing data shown in FIG. 6 is created based on the information and the advertisement information.

In the editing data shown in FIG. 6, all provided information to be provided to each customer and an appropriate advertisement according to the interest of each customer are set in a predetermined page setting (paper size, length and width of paper). , The size of a margin, etc.). This editing data is created in a format suitable for printing on paper when information is provided to the customer by mail. Also,
When providing information to a customer by sending an e-mail, the information is created in a format suitable for sending by e-mail.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a series of processes executed by the editing-side data processing unit 28 to create the editing data shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 7, when editing data is created, the editing-side data processing unit 28 first specifies a customer ID (step 100). Next, a predetermined area in the edited data is assigned to an ID (address or name) according to a predetermined rule (step 102).

Next, all the provided information recorded in association with the ID in the editing database 32 is extracted. As a result, all the provided information transmitted from the service providers A to D before the editing date is extracted (step 104).

The provided information extracted in this manner is assigned a predetermined display area in the edited data according to a predetermined rule (step 106).

The provided information provided by the plurality of service providers A to D includes information related to property evaluation, information related to debt, information related to income and expenditure, and topical information. I have. For customers,
It is preferable that the same type of information be displayed collectively without being caught by the frame of the company, rather than displaying such information for each company.

In this embodiment, the service provider A
The provided information transmitted from .about.D includes a flag indicating the type of each information. Present step 106
In, the editing-side data processing unit 28 specifies the provided information to which the display area is to be allocated, and then recognizes the type of the provided information based on the flag. Then, the provided information is assigned to a display area corresponding to the type.
As a result, various types of provided information individually transmitted from the plurality of service providing companies A to D are collectively displayed for each type of provided information in the page-format edited data. FIG. 6 shows a state in which a plurality of pieces of provided information of the same type are displayed as <provided information 1>, and another piece of provided information of the same type is displayed as <provided information 2>.

Next, the editing data processing unit 28 selects an advertisement to be inserted into the edited data (step 1).
08). In the present step 108, first, all the interest information 24 recorded in association with the ID in the editing-side database 32 is extracted. Next, advertisement information matching the interest information 24 (genre information and narrowing-down information) is extracted from the editing side database 32.

The extracted advertisement information is assigned to a predetermined display area in the edited data according to a predetermined rule (step 110). By executing these processes, edited data for each customer as shown in FIG. 6 is created.

The editing data created in this way is
It is printed together with a table of contents as shown below and information to be provided to all customers (a list of inquiries of each company, etc.) or is converted into an e-mail and distributed to each customer by mail or electronic mail.

Table of Contents Property valuation and transaction details for this month Stocks, investment trusts, insurance Deposits and savings Land prices, land prices 2. 2. Debt and transaction details for this month Mortgage balance Card balance This month's balance 4. Topics of this month Inquiry list of each company

According to the information providing system described above, provided information generated by a plurality of service providing companies A to D can be collectively distributed to customers, so that the cost of distributing provided information can be greatly reduced. . Further, according to the method of the present embodiment, each company that operates the information providing system (the service providing companies A to D and the information editing company 10)
Can get advertising revenue from advertisers (a), (b), and (c). For this reason, according to the system of the present embodiment, it is possible to significantly reduce the distribution cost of the provided information that is paid by the service providers A to D.

Further, according to the information providing system of the present embodiment, each customer is provided with a plurality of service providing companies A to D as one information magazine or e-mail magazine including the contents of the table of contents. You can receive the information to be issued. For this reason, the system of the present embodiment is also useful for individual customers in that management of asset information and the like becomes easy.

Second Embodiment Next, an information providing system according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG.
In the present embodiment, the structure of transmission information transmitted from each of the service providing companies A to D to the information editing company 10 is shown. FIG. 9 shows the structure of record information for each customer recorded in the editing database 32 of the information editing company 10 in the present embodiment.

In the system of the first embodiment described above, the service providing companies A to D transmit the transmission information including the interest information to the information editing company 10 (see FIG. 3). Then, the information editing company 10 once records the interest information 24 as customer-specific record information (see FIG. 5), and selects advertisement information suitable for each customer based on the interest information 24.

On the other hand, in the present embodiment, service providers A to D collect advertisements from advertisers, respectively, and
As shown in (1), the advertisement information 40 selected by itself is included in the transmission information and transmitted to the information editing company 10. Then, the information editing company 10 organizes the information received from the service providing companies A to D, and as shown in FIG.
2 and the customer-specific record information including the advertisement information 40 is created.

In the present embodiment, each of the service providers A to D generates interest information in the same manner as in the first embodiment, and based on the interest information,
Advertisement information is selected in the same manner as used by the information editing company 10 in the first embodiment. Further, in the present embodiment, the ID 20, the provided information 22, and the advertisement information 40 included in the customer-specific record information are converted into the page format edit data shown in FIG. 6 by the same method as in the first embodiment. You.

According to the information providing system of the present embodiment,
Similarly to the system according to the first embodiment, a function of collectively distributing provided information generated by a plurality of service providers A to D to individual customers can be realized. In particular, in the system of the present embodiment, the above functions can be realized without transmitting the customer interest information from the service providing companies A to D to the information editing company 10. For this reason, the information providing system of the present embodiment is effective in minimizing the amount of information exchanged between operating companies of the system.

In the first and second embodiments described above, the information editing apparatus is provided with a plurality of service providing companies A
The transmission information transmitted from .about.D is arranged in the form of customer-specific record information and recorded in the editing database 32, but the present invention is not limited to these forms. That is, the information editing apparatus records the transmission information transmitted from each of the service providers A to D in the editing side database 32 once as it is, and provides the information related to the same ID 20 at the stage of creating the editing data. The information 22 and the interest information 24 may be extracted.

[0065]

As described above, according to the present invention, transmission information separately transmitted from a plurality of information transmitting devices is arranged into edited data for each customer by the information editing device. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to collectively distribute provided information generated separately by a plurality of companies having a common customer to each customer. In this case, the cost required for distributing the provided information is greatly reduced, and the provided information is easily managed by the customer.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a flow of information processed by an information providing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an information transmitting device installed in a service providing company according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a structure of transmission information transmitted from a service providing company to an information editing company in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an information editing device installed in an information editing company according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a structure of customer-specific record information recorded in an editing database by an information editing device installed in an information editing company according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the concept of page format edit data created for each customer by an information editing device installed in an information editing company in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a series of processing executed by an information editing apparatus installed in an information editing company to create edited data in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a structure of transmission information transmitted from a service providing company to an information editing company in the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a structure of customer-specific record information recorded in an editing database by an information editing device installed in an information editing company according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A, B, C, D Service Providers I, B, C Advertisers 1, 2, 3, 4 Customers 10 Information Editing Companies 14 Sender Data Processor 18 Sender Database 20 Identification Information (ID) 22 Provided Information 24 Interest Information 28 Editing data processing unit 32 Editing database 40 Advertising information

Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. An information providing system having a plurality of information transmitting devices and one information editing device, wherein the information transmitting device records identification information of each customer and information to be provided to each customer. A sending-side database, a sending-side data processing unit that reads information recorded in the sending-side database and generates sending information including identification information and provided information for each customer, and edits the sending information into the information. A communication unit for transmitting to the device, the information editing device includes: an editing database that records transmission information transmitted from a plurality of information transmitting devices; and the providing information for each customer from the editing database. An information providing system comprising: an editing-side data processing unit that reads out and generates editing data including information to be provided to each customer. 2. The information transmitting apparatus further comprises a unit for attaching type information indicating the type to each piece of provided information, wherein the editing-side data processing unit sets the edited data in accordance with a predetermined page setting. Editing means for compiling data in a page format, wherein the editing means assigns the same type of provided information to a set area in the edited data based on the type information of each provided information. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein 3. The at least one information transmission device, comprising: means for acquiring interest information representing an interest target of each customer; and means for including interest information of each customer in the transmission information, The information editing device includes: an advertisement database that records a plurality of types of advertisement information; an advertisement selection unit that selects, from the advertisement database, advertisement information that matches interest information of each customer; And means for including in the information provided by the customer.
Information providing system described. 4. At least one information transmitting device includes: means for acquiring interest information representing an object of interest of each customer; an advertisement database recording a plurality of types of advertisement information; An advertisement selecting unit that selects advertisement information that matches the interest information of the user, and a unit that includes the selected advertisement information in the transmission information. The information editing device includes the advertisement information as a part of the provided information. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the information is provided to individual customers. 5. The interest information includes genre information relating to a genre in which each customer is interested, and narrowing information for further narrowing down an object of interest in the genre. The information according to claim 3, wherein a genre of an advertisement to be included in the provided information is determined based on the genre information, and further, contents of the advertisement included in the provided information are specified based on the narrowing-down information. Delivery system. 6. The at least one information transmission device, a life plan information database that records life plan information of each customer, and a unit that generates interest information of each customer based on the life plan information. The information providing system according to any one of claims 3 to 5, further comprising: 7. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein said information editing apparatus further comprises means for printing said edited data as a publication for each customer. 8. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein said information editing apparatus further comprises means for transmitting said edited data as an electronic publication for each customer. 9. An information editing apparatus for editing transmission information individually transmitted from a plurality of information transmission apparatuses for each customer, wherein the transmission information transmitted from the plurality of information transmission apparatuses is recorded. An editing-side database; a unit for identifying identification information included in the transmission information; a unit for recognizing provided information included in the transmission information for providing to each customer; and recording in the editing-side database. And an editing-side data processing unit that reads out the provided information related to the same identification information from the provided information and generates edited data to be provided to a customer that matches the identification information. Information editing device. 10. The editing-side data processing unit: means for determining the type of each piece of provided information based on the type information attached to each piece of provided information; Editing means for compiling data according to the page format according to the information, and the editing means allocates the same type of provided information to a collective area in the edited data based on the type of each provided information. 10. The information editing device according to claim 9, wherein 11. A means for recognizing interest information included in the transmission information as information representing an object of interest of each customer; an advertisement database recording a plurality of types of advertisement information; 10. An advertisement selecting means for selecting advertisement information matching interest information of the customer, and a means for including the selected advertisement information in information provided by each customer.
0. An information editing device. 12. A means for recognizing the interest information, a means for detecting genre information indicating a genre in which each customer is interested in the interest information, and a further object of interest in the genre. Means for recognizing narrowing information for narrowing down, the advertisement selecting means determines a genre of an advertisement to be included in provided information based on the genre information, and further, the provided information based on the narrowed information. 12. The information editing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the content of the advertisement to be included is specified. 13. The system according to claim 9, further comprising means for recognizing advertisement information included in the transmission information, wherein the advertisement information is provided to each customer as a part of the provided information. Or the information editing device according to 10. 14. The information editing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising means for printing the edited data as a publication for each customer. 15. The information editing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising means for transmitting the editing data as an electronic publication for each customer.