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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2013
Rakuten, Inc., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Soh Masuko, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Shigaku Iwabuchi, Tsukuba, JP;
Shinichiro Tosa, Ichikawa, JP;
Jiro Tanaka, Ushiku, JP;
Rakuten, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The goods and services purchase supporting apparatus includes an identification information acquiring unit () to acquire an image of a medium on which a marker indicative of identification information of goods or services is presented, the medium being presented to a customer in association with the goods or the services, and acquire the identification information from the marker represented on the acquired image of the medium, a discount information acquiring unit () to acquire, from a storing unit () to store discount information applicable to the goods or the services in association with the identification information of the goods or the services, the discount information that is associated with the identification information acquired by the identification information acquiring unit, and an arranging unit () to arrange display information, which is based on the discount information acquired by the discount information acquiring unit, with the image of the medium.