Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shizuo Kamimura

Eiji Shinohara

Atsushi Hanai

Tatsuto Torikai

Sachiko Misumi

Keisuke Kataoka

A shopping server accepts a request for estimation of arbitrary designated items given by a client terminal, and generates estimation data for the designated items in accordance with the accepted request. The shopping server stores the generated estimation data at a shopping DB system. In response to retrieval of inventory status information for the items indicated by the estimation data stored in the shopping DB system, the shopping server updates the estimation data concerned in accordance with the retrieved inventory status information. The shopping server presents the updated estimation data to other client terminal in response to a request given by the client terminal which requested the estimation.

Online merchandising system, server, estimation managing method, computer program product, and computer data signal

A user ID and a corporation ID for identifying an organization to which the user belongs are pre-registered in association, and the corporation ID of the organization to which the user belongs is specified based on a login name entered when the user logs in a shopping site by a terminal (S). Based on the specified corporation ID, a user ID of a user which is associated with the same corporation ID is specified (S). Based on the specified user ID, order placement information corresponding to the user ID is searched for (S), and an order placement condition for a predetermined period, of the organization to which the user belongs is displayed on the terminal (S).

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Chiba, Japan

Shizuo Kamimura