摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the reliability of articles to transactors, consumers and the like by disclosing article information in a useful way. <P>SOLUTION: An article attribute providing server has a means for recording the attribute information of the same article in a processed article DB from information acquirers' standpoints on processed articles and for recording the attribute information of the article in a raw material DB from the information acquirers' standpoints on raw materials. The server further has a means for searching the processed article DB or the raw material DB for the attribute information of either a predetermined processed article or raw materials according to input search requirements, and for providing this information to terminals. The standpoints on the processed articles are, e.g., based on the desire to know the appearances of the processed articles to be sold and the standpoints on the raw materials are, e.g., based on the desire to know the main applications of the raw materials to be processed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI |