Method, system, and computer product for managing radio-tag, managing advertisement, and using radio tag

A radio-tag management method for managing information on a plurality of radio tags, comprising:

• requesting, using a computer, issue of an advertisement identifier for identifying an advertisement, to an advertisement management device which manages the advertisement to be displayed in addition to tag information including traceability information stored in a radio tag when a user's terminal displays the tag information including the traceability information, the user's terminal being used by a purchaser of an item attached with the radio tag;
• receiving, using the computer, the advertisement identifier requested at the requesting from the advertisement management device;
• storing, using the computer, the advertisement identifier associated with a tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the computer;
• writing, using the computer, the advertisement identifier stored in the storage device at the storing, to the radio tag to which the corresponding tag identifier has been written so that the advertisement identifier can be read from the radio tag and specified when the user's terminal requests the advertisement to the advertisement management device;
• receiving the tag identifier from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag;
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• transmitting, to the user's terminal, the traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device in the storage device, associated with the tag identifier received from the user's terminal, when receiving the tag identifier from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag, the address being transmitted so that the user's terminal requests the advertisement to the advertise management device using the address of the advertisement management device, the advertisement management device transmits the advertisement associated with the advertisement identifier to the user's terminal, and the user's terminal receives the advertisement from the advertisement management device and displays the advertisement with the traceability information.

A radio-tag management device that manages information on a plurality of radio tags, comprising:

• an advertisement-identifier-issue requesting unit that requests issue of an advertisement identifier for identifying an advertisement, to an advertisement management device which manages the advertisement to be displayed in addition to tag information including traceability information stored in a radio tag when a user's terminal displays the tag information including the traceability information, the user's terminal being used by a purchaser of an item attached with the radio tag;
• an advertisement-identifier storing unit that receives the advertisement identifier requested by the advertisement-identifier-issue requesting unit from the advertisement management device, and stores the advertisement identifier associated with a tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the radio-tag management device;
• an advertisement-identifier writing unit that writes the advertisement identifier stored in the storage device by the advertisement-identifier storing unit, to the radio tag to which the corresponding tag identifier has been written so that the advertisement identifier can be read from the radio tag and specified when the user's terminal requests the advertisement to the advertisement management device;
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• a transmitting unit that receives the tag identifier from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag, and transmits, to the user's terminal, the traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device in the storage device, associated with the tag identifier received from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag, the address being transmitted so that the user's terminal requests the advertisement to the advertisement management device using the address of the advertise management device, the advertisement management device transmits the advertisement associated with the advertisement identifier to the user's terminal, and the user's terminal receives the advertisement from the advertisement management device and displays the advertisement with the traceability information.

A computer-readable recording medium that stores a computer program for managing advertisement, the computer program causing the computer to execute a process comprising:

• issuing an advertisement identifier for identifying an advertisement in response to a request from a radio-tag management device which manages information on a plurality of radio tags, the advertisement being displayed in addition to tag information including traceability information stored in a radio tag when a user's terminal displays the tag information including the traceability information, the user's terminal being used by a purchaser of an item attached with the radio tag, the radio-tag management device receiving the advertisement identifier, storing the advertisement identifier associated with a tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the radio-tag management device, receiving the tag identifier from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag, and transmitting, to the user's terminal, the traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device in the storage device, associated with the tag identifier received from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag;
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• transmitting an advertisement in response to a transmission request of the advertisement corresponding to the advertisement identifier sent from the user's terminal which reads the advertisement identifier from the radio tag when the tag information including the traceability information for the radio tag is displayed, the radio tag to which the advertisement identifier issued at the issuing being written by the radio-tag management device.

A method of managing advertisement, the method comprising:

• issuing an advertisement identifier for identifying an advertisement in response to a request from a radio-tag management device which manages information on a plurality of radio tags, the advertisement being displayed in addition to tag information including traceability information stored in a radio tag when a user's terminal displays the tag information including the traceability information, the user's terminal being used by a purchaser of an item attached with the radio tag, the radio-tag management device receiving the advertisement identifier, storing the advertisement identifier associated with a tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the radio-tag management device, receiving the tag identifier from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag, and transmitting, to the user's terminal, the traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device in the storage device, associated with the tag identifier received from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag;
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• transmitting an advertisement in response to a transmission request of the advertisement corresponding to the advertisement identifier sent from the user's terminal which reads the advertisement identifier from the radio tag when the tag information including the traceability information for the radio tag is displayed, the radio tag to which the advertisement identifier issued at the issuing being written by the radio-tag management device.

A device for managing advertisement, comprising:

• an issuing unit that issues an advertisement identifier for identifying an advertisement in response to a request from a radio-tag management device which manages information on a plurality of radio tags, the advertisement being displayed in addition to tag information including traceability information stored in a radio tag when a user's terminal displays the tag information including the traceability information, the user's terminal being used by a purchaser of an item attached with the radio tag, the radio-tag management device receiving the advertisement identifier, storing the advertisement identifier associated with a tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the radio-tag management device, receiving the tag identifier from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag, and transmitting, to the user's terminal, the traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device in the storage device, associated with the tag identifier received from the user's terminal, stored in the radio tag;
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• a transmitting unit that transmits an advertisement in response to a transmission request of the advertisement corresponding to the advertisement identifier sent from the user's terminal which reads the advertisement identifier from the radio tag when the tag information including the traceability information for the radio tag is displayed, the radio tag to which the advertisement identifier issued by the issuing unit being written by the radio-tag management device.

A computer-readable recording medium that stores a computer program that causes the computer to execute a process comprising:

• reading a tag identifier and an advertisement identifier for identifying an advertisement related to an item attached with a radio tag, from the radio tag, the advertisement identifier being written to the radio tag by a radio-tag management device that manages information on a plurality of radio tags, requests issue of the advertisement identifier to an advertisement management device which manages the advertisement associated with the advertisement identifier, receives the advertisement identifier from the advertisement management device, and stores the advertisement identifier associated with the tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the radio-tag management device;
• requesting, to the radio-tag management device by specifying the tag identifier stored in the radio tag, transmission of traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device;
• receiving, from the radio-tag management device, the traceability information and the address of the advertisement management device;
• requesting, using the address of the advertise management device received, transmission of an advertisement to the advertisement management device;
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• displaying the advertisement received from the advertisement management device along with the traceability information.

An apparatus comprising:

• a reading unit that reads a tag identifier and an advertisement identifier for identifying an advertisement related to an item attached with a radio tag, from the radio tag, the advertisement identifier being written to the radio tag by a radio-tag management device that manages information on a plurality of radio tags, requests issue of the advertisement identifier to an advertisement management device which manages the advertisement associated with the advertisement identifier, receives the advertisement identifier from the advertisement management device, and stores the advertisement identifier associated with the tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the radio-tag management device;
• a first requesting unit that requests, to the radio-tag management device by specifying the tag identifier stored in the radio tag, transmission of traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device;
• a receiving unit that receives, from the radio-tag management device, the traceability information and the address of the advertisement management device;
• a second requesting unit that requests, using the address of the advertise management device received, transmission of an advertisement to the advertisement management device;
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• a displaying unit that displays the advertisement received from the advertisement management device along with the traceability information.

A method of using a radio tag, comprising:

• a radio-tag management device, which manages information on a plurality of radio tags, requesting issue of an advertisement identifier to an advertisement management device which manages an advertisement associated with the advertisement identifier;
• the advertisement management device issuing the advertisement identifier for identifying the advertisement;
• the radio-tag management device receiving the advertisement identifier from the advertisement management device, storing the advertisement identifier associated with a tag identifier of the radio tag in a storage device of the radio-tag management device, and writing the advertisement identifier to the radio tag;
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• the user's terminal reading the tag identifier and the advertisement identifier written to the radio tag at the writing, requesting, to the radio-tag management device by specifying the tag identifier stored in the radio tag, transmission of traceability information and an address of the advertisement management device, receiving, from the radio-tag management device, the traceability information and the address of the advertisement management device, requesting, using the address of the advertise management device received, transmission of an advertisement to the advertisement management device, receiving the advertisement corresponding to the advertisement identifier from the advertisement management device, and displaying the advertisement together with the traceability information, the user's terminal being used by a purchaser of an item attached with the radio tag.