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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1998
Tadahiro Uehara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Rieko Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Sakurai, Kanagawa, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
Individual attributes are designated to individual hierarchical levels of an inventory information tree stored in an inventory information tree structure storing unit. Each node that structures the inventory information tree defines at least the type of an attribute of a commodity, the value thereof, the inventory quantity of the commodity that satisfies a classification condition corresponding to the position on the tree, and the relation with another node. While an inventory retrieving unit is searching each node on the inventory information tree corresponding to a retrieving condition designated with a combination of the attribute of the commodity and the value thereof, the unit executes an inventory retrieving process for updating the inventory quantity of each node. The unit searches nodes with priority corresponding to their positions in hierarchical levels with attributes that are not included in a retrieving condition.