Patent ID: 7760075
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An individual article management system for managing an individual article distributed through a plurality of sites with a form thereof changed at least one of said plurality of sites, comprising: information processing apparatuses installed at said plurality of sites; and a data center apparatus connected to each of said information processing apparatuses through a network, wherein: the data center apparatus is configured to: 1) receive each of identification information having been appended to each of individual articles and each of index data including change information showing a process to each of the individual articles at the corresponding site for each of the individual articles, the identification information and the index data being transmitted from each of the information processing apparatus; and 2) store each of the index data into a storing apparatus so as to be associated with each other on the basis of the identification information for identifying each of the individual articles, and wherein: each of the information processing apparatuses is configured to: 1) receive search condition information including each of identification information; and 2) determine a distribution route for each of the individual articles based on the search condition information having been received.