Patent ID: 8038060

Claim:
A system comprising: an ID image providing device, comprising: commodity information receiving means for receiving, from a store terminal installed at a store, commodity information on a commodity settled in the store; ID image storing means for storing ID images defining ID information in a frequency domain and accompanied by attribute information that is used by the store terminal to decide whether or not each of the stored ID images is to be printed; correspondence storing means for storing a correspondence between the commodity information and the stored ID images; ID image searching means for retrieving ID images corresponding to the received commodity information from the stored ID images using the stored correspondence; attribute list storing means for storing an attribute list registering the attribute information of the stored ID images that is used by the store terminal to decide whether or not each of the stored ID images is to be printed; ID image transmitting means for selectively transmitting only the retrieved ID images which have been decided to be printed based on the stored attribute list; and printing means provided in the store terminal for printing the transmitted ID images on a print medium; and a connection information providing device, comprising: connection information storing means for storing connection information in which ID information and connection information for connecting to a predetermined website are associated with each other; ID information acquisitioned means for acquiring ID information from a user terminal; connection information searching means for retrieving connection information which is associated, by the connection information storing means, with the ID information thus obtained; and connection information transmitting means for transmitting the connection information thus retrieved to the user terminal.