Patent ID: 8395803
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information recording system comprising: a plurality of printing apparatuses, each printing apparatus comprising: a printing unit; a communication unit that communicates with a contents server having contents data; a print control unit that controls the printing unit to print the contents data and output a printed material imaging the contents data if the communication unit receives the contents data from the contents server; an expendable amount deriving unit that derives an amount of an expendable item required for imaging the contents data in the printing unit, the expendable amount deriving unit deriving the amount of the expendable item in accordance with a size of an image printed by the printing unit; and an expendable amount storing control unit that stores information representing the amount of the expendable item derived by the expendable amount deriving unit in a memory unit; and an information management device comprising: a common memory unit shared by each printing apparatus; a division transmitting unit configured to communicate with a communication device managed by each advertising provider to which an advertising provider code is assigned; and a receiving unit configured to receive a condition ID that indicates that a specific condition is satisfied and a user identification code corresponding to a user, wherein the expendable amount storing control unit possessed by each printing apparatus stores the amount of the expendable item for each advertising provider derived by the expendable amount deriving unit possessed by the printing apparatus in the common memory unit in association with the user identification code and the advertising provider code, and wherein, when the receiving unit receives the condition ID and the user identification code, the division transmitting unit transmits the amount of the expendable item associated with the received user identification code and stored in the common memory unit to the communication device of the advertising provider that corresponds to the advertising provider code associated with the amount of expendable item together with the received user identification code.