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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2006
Yohei Kawada, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshihiro Mizuno, Yokohama, JP;
Yohei Kawada, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshihiro Mizuno, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An identifier such as an IC tag attached to a commodity is read by an antenna connected to a display rack or an information terminal. A server receives the read result, analyse the purchase action of the customer from the identifier ID, the antenna position information, etc, and proposes a totalization result. For example, detailed information of purchase actions for each customer such as a read result for each commodity and a commodity simultaneously read is displayed on terminals for the manager of the shop and managers at headquarters. The totalization result is displayed for the customer as a popular or good selling commodity of the shop on an information terminal inside the shop.