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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2020
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kenya Hiramatsu, Kita Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Nakajima, Ota Tokyo, JP;
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores a plurality of sets of promotion information about commodities to be promoted, each in association with a commodity code of a related commodity and a parameter value, a network interface, and a processor configured to, upon receipt of a commodity code of a commodity to be purchased by a customer from a portable terminal, search the memory for promotion information associated with the received commodity code, when one set of promotion information is found by the search, determine the promotion information to be output, when two or more sets of promotion information are found by the search, determine one of the sets of promotion information associated with a greatest parameter value to be output, and control the network interface to transmit to the portable terminal the promotion information determined to be output.