A contents additional services inquiry server for receiving inquiries for
additional services provided by a contents center and a third-party
contents additional services providing server, wherein a registration
request specifies a contents identifier uniquely identifying contents,
and requests registration of registration request information including
each additional service information regarding service that can be
provided with respect to the contents having the contents identifier and
provider location information regarding a location of a respective
provider of each additional service. Registration request information
registered by the contents center and registration request information
registered by the third-party contents additional service providing
server are separately stored. The registration request information
specified by the contents identifier is searched and returned when there
is a request for the additional service, where registration request
information registered by the contents center and registration request
information registered by the third-party contents additional service
providing server are separately presented.