Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a marketing system capable of organically linking an analysis result to the data of a business rule. An analysis capability of the marketing system according to the invention extracts information necessary for counterplan analysis from a shopping history database, a customer database, and a merchandise database, analyzes the extracted information, and stores an analysis result into an analysis result database. A rule generation capability of the marketing system extracts the analysis result information from the analysis result database, generates a business rule by adding rule parameter definition information of person in charge inputted from an input device to the extracted analysis result information, and stores the generated business rule into a business rule base.

Abstract: A user of services is enabled to utilize a highly value-added service employing secret data of the user without presenting the data to the service provider side. In a system in which a server is coupled with a client via a communication network, the client inputs and sends a service identifier to the server, receives a program to execute the service from the server, inputs secret data as client controlled data from an input device and sends a server control data request to the server, and then receives the requested data from the server. The input data is irreversibly processed by use of the program and received data such that the client sends results of the process to an expert on the server side to receive an advice of the expert. By referring to the advice, the service user inputs evaluation of the outputted results. The steps beginning at the data request input are repeatedly conducted until the evaluation becomes satisfactory, thereby transmitting the process results to the server.

Abstract: An online shopping support method and system capable of supplying proper services matching user specific needs and conditions. Purchase history information of each good purchased by each user is stored at a service offering system. In response to an input of identification information from a service use system, the service offering system searches the purchase history information of the user corresponding to a user identifier and calculates a purchase interval of each good purchased by the user. The service offering system judges, for each good whose purchase interval was calculated, whether the time corresponding to the purchase interval has lapsed after the latest purchase day. The service offering system transmits information of the good whose time corresponding to the purchase interval has lapsed to the service use system via a communication network and displaying the information at the service use system.

Abstract: A user of services is enable to utilize a highly value-added service employing secret data of the user without presenting the data to the service provider side. In a system in which a server is coupled with a client via a communication network, the client inputs and sends a service identifier to the server, receives a program to execute the service from the server, inputs secret data as client controlled data from an input device and sends a server control data request to the server, and then receives the requested data from the server. The input data is irreversibly processed by use of the program and received data such that the client sends results of the process to an expert on the server side to receive an advice of the expert. By referring to the advice, the service user inputs evaluation of the outputted results. The steps beginning at the data request input are repeatedly conducted until the evaluation becomes satisfactory, thereby transmitting the process results to the server.

Abstract: In a data management system necessary for management such as a profit management of a shop, it is required to collect and to analyze a great amount of various kinds of data items. In such a data management system, in addition to a data base storing therein all data, there are disposed a data base associated with each data utilization purpose and a data base for the data analysis so as to conduct data-base-oriented processing, which enables an analysis result suitable for a purpose to be easily attained and which simplifies the system configuration.

Abstract: A trolley is reciprocally moved along a guide. A work support, supported by the trolley, is vertically moved so that the lift mechanism can be made of a compact size, a light weight and highly reliable in operation thereby increasing the processing speed of the processing line and improving productivity.

Abstract: A trolley is reciprocally moved along a guide. A work support, supported by the trolley, is vertically moved so that the lift mechanism can be made compact in size, or light weight and highly reliable in operation. Accordingly, the processing speed of the processing line is increased and the productivity is improved.

Abstract: A trolley is reciprocably moved along a guide and work supported by the trolley is vertically moved by a lift mechanism and the lift mechanism is made compact in size, light in weight and highly reliable in operation, whereby the processing speed of a processing line can be increased and therefore productivity can be improved.