Patent ID: 9037663
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A database management device comprising: an email acquisition unit that acquires information of a recommendation email for recommending a specified recommended object from a first user to a plurality of second users, the recommendation email containing information about a web page of the recommended object and a tracking identifier; a registration unit that generates recommendation data in which the first user, the plurality of second users and the web page of the recommended object are associated based on the information acquired by the email acquisition unit, and registers the recommendation data into a database; an operation information acquisition unit that determines whether a signal includes the tracking identifier, the signal indicating a request for the web page of the recommended object by at least one user of the plurality second users, and that, when the signal includes the tracking identifier, acquires operation information indicating operation performed by the at least one user of the plurality second users on the web page of the recommended object in response to the recommendation email, and when the signal does not include the tracking identifier, does not acquire the operation information; and an update unit that specifies an action of the at least one user of the plurality of second users taken on the recommended object based on the operation information and adds action information indicating the specified action to the corresponding recommendation data, wherein the action of the at least one user of the plurality of second users specified by the update unit includes sending of an application email to other users of the plurality of second users, the application email letting the other users of the plurality of second users know that application is made for the recommended object by the at least one user of the plurality of second users.