Patent ID: 7896245

Claim:
A setting-information creating apparatus that creates setting information to be set to an information terminal device that outputs information relevant to goods within a site based on transmitter information transmitted from a transmitter installed at each point within the site, the setting-information creating apparatus comprising: a goods-layout-setting storage unit that stores therein goods-layout setting information indicating a correspondence between region information specifying a region within the site and goods information specifying goods laid out in the region; an output-information-setting storage unit that therein stores output-information setting information indicating a correspondence between the transmitter information and the goods information; a setting-information creating unit that obtains a first goods information corresponding to an optional position within the site assigned by a user, based on the goods-layout-setting information, obtains a second goods information corresponding to an optional transmitter assigned by the user, based on the output-information setting information, and creates transmitter-position setting information representing a predetermined correspondence between the position information for identifying the position assigned by the user and the transmitter information for identifying the transmitter assigned by the user, when the obtained first and second goods information coincide with each other; and a goods-layout-information output unit that outputs goods-layout information indicating a correspondence between the region within the site and the goods information identifying the goods laid out in the region, to a display device, wherein when the position and the transmitter are assigned by the user based on the goods-layout information output from the goods-layout-information output unit, the setting-information creating unit obtains a third goods information corresponding to the position assigned by the user and a fourth goods information corresponding to the transmitter assigned by the user, and creates transmitter-position setting information indicating a correspondence between the position information identifying the position and the transmitter information identifying the transmitter, when the third and fourth goods information coincide with each other.