the mm information held by the transferring user itself which can improve the usability for increasing the number of users the application software 10 determines that the container information is the highest layer including content information and behavior information the application software 10 always refers to the container information first and inhibits manipulations other than the manipulations meeting the requirements such as those relating to the copyright the function can be provided to the mmp controller 12 instead of the application software 10 a bit stream encoded in time series for example may be used for the transfer of mm information here the sending application software 10 transfers the content information first thus the receiving application software 10 or mmp controller 12 can surely determine the requirements with reference to the content information received first here an example will be described in which required information is retrieved from newspaper article and is transferred by fax or by e mail the article service uses the mm information system according to the present invention to provide a service of transferring mm information in high quality in the mm information system in fig1 a user a of the receiving terminal 2 and a user b of the receiving terminal 3 register the sending terminal 1 or the other sending terminal having each.