Patent ID: 8732809

Claim:
A system comprising: a medium, a terminal device, and a server device, wherein the medium holds an item attribute data set indicating one or more attributes of an item and identifying the item, the terminal device has: a receiving unit that receives from the server device a terminal identification data set identifying the terminal device, a storing unit that stores the terminal identification data set received by the receiving unit, an obtaining unit that obtains from the medium the item attribute data set held by the medium, and a transmitting unit that transmits to the server device the terminal identification data set stored by the storing unit and the item attribute data set obtained by the obtaining unit, and the server device has: a receiving unit that receives the terminal identification data set and the item attribute data set transmitted from the terminal device, a storing unit that stores the terminal identification data set and the item attribute data set received by the receiving unit in association with each other, and a transmitting unit that transmits to the terminal device the terminal identification data set identifying the terminal device, the transmitting unit of the server device transmits to a first device the terminal identification data set and at least a part of the item attribute data set received by the receiving unit, or a data set generated from the terminal identification data set and at least a part of the item attribute data set received by the receiving unit, the receiving unit of the server device receives a response data set transmitted from the first device in response to the transmission of data made by the transmitting unit of the server device, and the transmitting unit of the server device transmits a predetermined data set corresponding to the response data set received by the receiving unit of the server device to a second device that is different from the first device.