Patent ID: 7493271

Claim:
A selling price information mediation service method for mediating and supplying selling price information, which includes selling prices of a commodity in respective stores and information about the respective stores, over a network, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, from an information requester terminal, an information request that requests selling price information about a commodity, and communicating the information request directly to a plurality of information provider terminals; collecting selling price information at the server which matches the information request from at least one of said plurality of information provider terminals in response to the information request, and generating collected selling price information that matches the information request; supplying the collected selling price information from the server to said information requester terminal, and charging said information requester terminal a prescribed information supply fee and mediation commission; and providing payment of a prescribed informer fee from the server to the at least one of said plurality of information provider terminals that provided the pieces of selling price information that match the information request.