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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2013
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Yuji Unagami, Osaka, JP;
Motoji Ohmori, Osaka, JP;
Hideo Umetani, Osaka, JP;
Michiko Sasagawa, Osaka, JP;
Kazunori Isogai, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An information management method includes: receiving, from a manufacturer server via a network, device history information indicating a history of an operation of a device used by a first user and first anonymized user information generated by anonymizing, according to a predetermined rule, first user information including attribute information which allows identification of the first user; receiving, from a service provider server different from the manufacturer server via the network, service history information indicating a history of service used by a second user and second anonymized user information generated by anonymizing, according to the predetermined rule, second user information including attribute information which allows identification of the second user; and associating the device history information and the service history information and managing them as composite information, when the first anonymized user information and the second anonymized user information are determined to be identical or similar.