Patent ID: 7680693

Claim:
A linear guide purchase supporting system for supplying linear guide information and supporting linear guide purchase, comprising: a linear guide information database configured to store linear guide information items and managing the linear guide information items by associating the linear guide information items with one another, the linear guide information items including linear guide specifications and linear guide call numbers; a linear guide information supply server configured to search, obtain, and transmit the linear guide information items from the linear guide information database in response to a user query, the user query including information that can be associated with at least one of the stored linear guide information items, wherein, if there is no call number for a linear guide, a new call number is created and obtained for said linear guide; and a user input device configured to initiate the user query and obtain applicable linear guide information items from the linear guide information supply server, wherein when information included in the user query is the same as at least one of the linear guide specifications, the linear guide information supply server searches, obtains, and transmits as the applicable linear guide information items, the linear guide call numbers associated with the at least one of the linear guide specifications; and an automatic graphic server configured to create a linear guide drawing using linear guide drawing information stored in said linear guide information database in response to an instruction from said linear guide information supply server, wherein the linear guide information database is configured to store information associating the linear guide drawing information and the linear guide call numbers, wherein the linear guide specification comprises a basic specification and an optional specification, wherein, when the basic specification is input from the user input device, the user input device displays standard data of the optional specification such that the optional specification is changeable.