Patent ID: 7325730
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A card issuing system that issues a shopping assisting card that provides support in purchasing an item being an apparel product, comprising: a database that stores customer information including a language used by a customer as registered information, item information including items sold at a store as registered information, store information including an item recommended by the store among the items included in the item information as registered information, and format data registered corresponding to a plurality of languages and used for producing the shopping assisting card, the item information including name data, price data, and image data of the items sold at the store, the customer information including size information for the customer, purchase inclination information for the customer, and purchase record information for the customer; a data extracting unit that extracts format data corresponding to the language used by the customer and the item recommended by the store from the database, the item being recommended based on the size information, the purchase inclination information and the purchase record information; a size converter that converts a size unit of the size information registered as the customer information into another size unit used at the store; a data producing unit that produces printing data for the shopping assisting card based on the format data, the card introducing the item recommended by the store in the language used by the customer; and a printer that prints the shopping assisting card based on the printing data; wherein the shopping assisting card is printed with name data, price data, and image data corresponding to the recommended item, and with the size information in the size unit after the size conversion and wherein the data corresponding to the language used by the customer includes image data for characters in the language used by the customer.