DISCOUNT SHOP SEARCH SERVICE METHOD, SHOP TERMINAL, POSITIONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND LOCAL SHOP COMMODITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to buy a plurality of commodities at the lowest price at shops offering the lowest price without spending much time in compliance with a request from the user. PSOLUTION: Commodity information including positional information of a shop terminal is registered in a local shop commodity information management server managing shops by area. A request from the user is analyzed by the positional information management server, search is asked by selecting a local shop commodity information management server and transferring the request, and a shop and commodity information matching the request is acquired to be returned to a user terminal. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI