Patent ID: 8040220
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for managing tag information to be stored in a radio-frequency-identification tag, the apparatus comprising: a storing unit that stores a plurality of pieces of tag information to be stored in a single radio-frequency-identification tag shared by a plurality of users, a piece of the tag information corresponding to each of the users, part of the piece of the tag information being stored in the single radio-frequency-identification tag; and a responding unit that transmits, in response to a request from a reader/writer, first tag information for a first user specified by the reader/writer to the reader/writer, the first tag information being part of a piece of the tag information corresponding the first user, the responding unit transmitting second tag information corresponding to a second user in addition to the first tag information, the second tag information being part of a piece of the tag information corresponding the second user and being specified to be transmitted when the first tag information is transmitted, the second user being specified by the responding unit based on an order in which the users use the radio-frequency-identification tag and information indicating whether a reader/writer of each user can make a request via a network in an environment in which each user uses the radio-frequency-identification tag.