The use cooperatively management server whom the use cooperatively business operator who

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recruit members for group purchase of articles and determine a group use schedule.;SOLUTION: A shared-use management server 30 used by a shared-use business operator 3 who provides a group purchase use service of articles to members receives purchase category information including names of articles desired for group purchase by members 1 and 2 from member terminals 10 and 20 and stores it in a storage device 33. The server acquires group purchase proposal information including the name of an article proposed to be group-purchased from the member terminal 10 of a purchase-proposing member 1, retrieves the purchase category information in the storage device 33 using the article name contained in the group purchase proposal information to extract members 1 and 2 who desire group purchase of the same article, contacts the member terminals 10 and 20 of the extracted members 1 and 2 to acquire answers including whether the purchase is desired or not and the dates of use, determines purchase-approving members 20 based on the acquired answers, and establishes group purchase article use schedules of the determined purchase-approving members 20.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT