Patent ID: 8446261

Claim:
A wireless ID management apparatus comprising: a wireless RFID reader, which detects, through wireless communication, a wireless ID stored in a wireless RFID tag in the vicinity of the wireless RFID reader; a time information acquirer, which acquires a detection time of the wireless ID; a location information acquirer, which acquires a detection location of the wireless ID; a communicator, which acquires from a server, wireless ID related information, which is information associated with the wireless ID, asynchronously from the detection of the wireless ID; an aggregate RFID storage contained in a memory, in which the wireless ID is stored in association with the detection time, the detection location, and the wireless ID related information; a classifier, which generates in the aggregate RFID storage a wireless ID aggregate structure, which is a data structure of wireless ID aggregates hierarchically constructed by classifying a plurality of wireless IDs stored in the aggregate RFID storage based on a similar detection time and a similar detection location and in which the wireless ID related information is stored in association with the constructed wireless ID; an interface, which allows for the user to select a filtering condition on wireless IDs that have been detected and stored in the aggregate RFID storage from: a location filtering condition of a location range among a plurality of ranges of distance from the present user location presented to the user; a time filtering condition of an elapsed detection time range among a plurality of ranges of elapsed detection time from the present time presented to the user, or a wireless ID related information filtering condition from a plurality of options presented to the user; and a notifier, which, upon receiving from the user a selection of the location filtering condition, the time filtering condition, or the wireless ID related information filtering condition, determines, from among the stored wireless IDs, filtered wireless IDs whose respective detection locations are within the range of the location filtering condition, or whose respective detection times are within the range of the time filtering condition, or whose wireless ID related information meet the wireless ID related information filtering condition, and notifies the user of resulting filtered wireless IDs, wherein the interface accepts from the user feedback for an article related to a wireless ID among the resulting filtered wireless IDs notified by the notifier.