Patent ID: 8123129

Claim:
An information provision intermediation apparatus adapted to be connected, through a communication path, to a terminal used by the consumer and an information providing unit having an information providing site providing information and adapted to provide the terminal with the information of the information providing site provided by the information providing unit, comprising: a condition table storing, in correspondence with each other, an identifier of the information providing site and an information provision condition required for the distribution history information on a commodity in at least a part of the distribution path after manufacture at the time of providing the information of the information providing site; a distribution history information acquisition unit acquiring the distribution history information on the commodity designated by the consumer; an identifier acquisition unit acquiring the identifier of the information-available information providing site based on the acquired commodity distribution history information and the information provision condition; an information intermediation unit acquiring, with an identifier acquired by the identifier acquisition unit, the information from the information providing site indicated by the identifier and transmitting the acquired information to the terminal; wherein the commodity carries a RFID tag storing the distribution history information of the commodity; and wherein the distribution history information acquisition unit acquires the distribution history information from the terminal.