Patent ID: 8478654

Claim:
An information providing device comprising: a communication device; a storage device; and a processing circuit configured to execute a program including a process stored in the storage device, the process including: obtaining a possessed product information, which indicates a possessed product of a user, and a usage status information, which indicates a usage status of the possessed product, the possessed product information being obtained based on a request received from a user device operated by the user through the communication device, obtaining a first product information corresponding to the obtained possessed product information and a second product information of a comparison target product as a target of comparison of the possessed product, the first product information and the second product information including product details of the possessed product and product details of the comparison target product, respectively, described in first and second lists of product details items, respectively, extracting a product detail item from each of the first and second lists of product detail items of the first product information and second product information, respectively, based on the obtained usage status information, and transmitting comparison content corresponding to the extracted product detail items to the user device.