Patent ID: 7398189

Claim:
A report management device that manages a report on information concerning a product, comprising: an obtaining, section that obtains first information as information concerning, a first product; a determination section that determines whether or not a first report on the first product as a report of a predetermined report type can be created, based on order of priorities set as order of priorities given to plural report types that can be created; and a creation section that creates, when the determination section determines that the first report can be created, the first report based on the first information obtained by the obtaining section and stores the information of the first report, and wherein the determination section manages state information for each report, and based on the state information, determines that the first report can be created when no report exists on a product that is the same as the first product where a report of the first product is given a higher report type priority than a report type priority of the first report, and when creation of a report on the first product having a higher report type priority than a report type priority of the predetermined report type has been completed.