Patent ID: 7690568

Claim:
A reading apparatus comprising: a reader which reads information from an article tag recording an identifier of the article tag and article information associated with an article, and a position tag recording an identifier of the position tag and position information associated with a position; a common memory which stores the information read by the reader; an article information memory which stores the article information recorded in the article tag; a position information memory which stores the position information recorded in the position tag; a controller which is configured to store the article information of the information stored in the common memory in the article information memory when the identifier of the information stored in the common memory is the identifier of the article tag, and store the position information of the information stored in the common memory in the position information memory when the identifier of the information stored in the common memory is the identifier of the position tag, and associates the article information stored in the article information memory with the position information stored in the position information memory to process the article information and the position information as one related set of information.