Patent US 7,516,225

Upon receiving a request for preparing a recommended CD list in Step S71, the experience/preference information providing server stores the member ID of the user requested a recommended CD list as remarkable member in Step S72. Then, in Step S73, the experience/preference information providing server extracts members having a taste similar to that of the remarkable member as taste sharing members (members who like CDs (music) similar to those the remarkable member likes). In Step S74, the experience/preference information providing server prepare a synthetic experience/preference list by collecting experience/preference element data of the taste sharing members. In Step S75, the experience/preference information providing server 14 prepares a recommended experience (CD) list best adapted to the user from the synthetic experience/preference list and transmits it to the terminal unit of the remarkable member.