INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THAT METHOD TO BE READABLE BY INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

This invention relates to a service which manages data using an information processing server on a network and allows another user to browse the managed data in accordance with an instruction from a data owner. Also, this invention particularly relates to a case wherein a terminal that the other user uses to browse the managed data is a compact information processing apparatus such as a mobile phone or the like. Upon providing the managed data and appended data associated with the managed data to a terminal of the other user, the information processing server changes the appended data and a method of providing the appended data in correspondence with the performance of the terminal of the other user. For example, upon displaying image data on a mobile phone of the other user, if message information associated with that image data has a large information size and cannot be fully displayed on the mobile phone of the other user, the information processing server changes the message information to shorter information, and provides the changed information to the mobile phone of the other user. The server causes the mobile phone of the other user to display a link to full message information, and allows it to receive the message information by accessing that link.