Commodity information retrieval system.

摘要

A commodity information retrieval system comprising at least one host station and a plurality of user stations interconnected through telecommunication lines by way of a repeater mounted on a communications satellite. The host station stores various commodity data including video data of commodities. Each of the user stations includes a terminal commodity data storage, and a retrieval terminal for searching desired commodities by utilizing commodity data stored in the terminal commodity data storage., When the user wants to look at a selected number of commodity images, corresponding video data are requested from the host station. Desired commodities are made referring to commodity classifications, users' tastes and/or purposes of purchase. Various data are obtained from the selections made by the user, which data are used as history data, demand data and so on for grasping market trends and system operations.