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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2024
Junpei Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshiharu Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Ryoh Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tracking system includes a gate including an information reader and gate circuitry. The gate is at least two gates including one gate placed at an entrance of a management area and the other gate placed at an entrance of an area. The management area is a place to keep an item to be lent. The area is included in another place to which the item is taken after being lent. The tracking system includes a server and an item management apparatus. The gate circuitry requests accumulating, in the item management apparatus via the server, item identification information identifying the item and read from an information holding medium related to the item, user identification information identifying a user and read from another information holding medium related to the user, and gate identification information identifying the gate.
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