Patent ID: 7020682
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An article information providing system, comprising: a portable terminal to which an information demander inputs a desire for an article as demand information, and configured to receive information corresponding to said demand information from an information provider; a mediate apparatus provided with: registration means for previously registering each information provider and a keyword so as to allow the information and the keyword to correspond to each other; retrieval means for retrieving said keyword from said demand information; delivery destination determination means for determining said information provider as a delivery destination of said demand information; means for delivering said demand information to said information provider, said information provider being registered in said registration means while corresponding to the keyword when the keyword is retrieved from the demand information; and transmission means for transmitting information to said information demander, the information being provided from the information provider in response to said demand information.