Information supply device

US9557891B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rakuten Group, Inc. · JP

Inventors

• Shigaku Iwabuchi · Tokyo, JP
• Soh Masuko · Shinagawa, JP
• Kenzo Nirasawa · Tsukuba, JP
• Jiro Tanaka · Mihara, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2011
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2017
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0631
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An online shopping server (10) includes a receiving unit (17a) that, when a plurality of first item information are selected by a user operation on a user terminal (T), acquiring the plurality of selected first item information, a retrieval unit (17b) that recognizes a common item attribute among the plurality of acquired first item information and reads item information different from the plurality of first item information and corresponding to the common item attribute as second item information from an item database (14), and a transmitting unit (17c) that outputs the read second item information in order to display the second item information together with the common item attribute on the user terminal (T).