Patent ID: 7176801

Claim:
An article management system comprising: a list forming means for forming a list of an article carried by a user on a basis of information obtained by reading information that specifies the article by means of a sensor from an identification tag attached to the article; a storage means for storing the list every time the list is formed by the list forming means; a lost article specifying means for specifying an event that the user has lost the article and the lost article on a basis of two or more lists stored in the storage means; and a notification means for giving notification of information concerning the lost article upon receiving an event that the lost article is specified by the lost article specifying means, wherein the lost article is a credit card or cash card, an identification tag attached to the lost credit card or cash card includes contact address information of a server of a credit card company related to the lost credit card or cash card, and the notification means notifies the server of the credit card company of information of the lost credit card or cash card on a basis of the information of the identification tag.