PRODUCT CATALOG MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PRODUCT CATALOG MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a product catalog management method/system which can manage a product catalog by pairing an instruction manual and to provide a storage medium which stores a product catalog management program. ;SOLUTION: In this method/system, simple data on a product are produced as catalog data and detailed data on the product are produced as instruction manual data (S1). The relation between the catalog data and the instruction manual data is described by using a product feature table (S2). Then, the catalog data and the instruction manual data on the designated product to be retrieved are retrieved by referring to the product feature table (S3) and these retrieval results are sent to a retrieval request issuer (S4).;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO