Patent ID: 7433865

Claim:
An information collection retrieval system comprising: a facility information database for storing individual information items about facilities; an information acquisition terminal for inputting a retrieval keyword, and for outputting results of searching said facility information database using the retrieval keyword; an information registration terminal for registering the individual information items about the facilities into said facility information database; and a control unit for controlling said information acquisition terminal, said information registration terminal and said facility information database, wherein said control unit includes: a registration analyzing section for analyzing registration information transmitted from said information registration terminal, and for storing analyzed results into said facility information database as one of the individual information items about the facilities; and a retrieval section for searching said facility information database in its entirety using the retrieval keyword input from said information acquisition terminal, and for transmitting information representing retrieval results to said information acquisition terminal; wherein said control unit comprises an external database acquiring section for acquiring information associated with the facilities from an external database connected via a network using an external database ID contained in the individual information items about the facilities registered in the facility information database by said information registration terminal, and wherein said registration analyzing section analyzes the information associated with the facilities obtained by said external database acquiring section, and stores analyzed results into said facility information database as one of the individual information items about the facilities.