INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE PROGRAM

• Main Author: KOJIMA SHINJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.04.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a handler of a commodity to easily utilize a commodity related content created by another person.SOLUTION: An information providing server 10 comprises: a handling commodity storage unit 11 for storing handling commodity information associating commodity information concerning a commodity and handler information concerning a handler of the commodity; a content storage unit 12 for storing content data which presents a content created by a person different from the handler and is associated with at least one piece of meta data indicating commodity information; a notification generation unit 16 for, by extracting handling commodity information including commodity information matching meta data of content data from the handling commodity storage unit 11, generating notification information for notifying a handler indicated by the extracted handling commodity information that a content corresponding to a commodity indicated by the commodity information exists; and a notification transmission unit 17 for transmitting the generated notification information to a terminal of the corresponding handler.