US 12,033,227 B2
Method for providing information
Hiroshi Yahata, Osaka (JP); Takahiro Nishi, Nara (JP); Tadamasa Toma, Osaka (JP); and Toshiyasu Sugio, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/492,895.
Application 18/492,895 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/037244, filed on Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-128609 (JP), filed on Aug. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0054580 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/12 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 50/12 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing information in an information management system that manages taste information regarding a user including an order record at a first restaurant with the user's permission and that associates the taste information with identification information for identifying the user, the method comprising:
obtaining, from a terminal apparatus, the identification information and a store identifier indicating a second restaurant in a chain different from a chain to which the first restaurant belongs;
obtaining menu information regarding the second restaurant indicated by the store identifier from a server associated with the second restaurant over a network;
arranging, when a number of order records of the user at the second restaurant is smaller than a certain value on a basis of the taste information associated with the identification information and the menu information regarding the second restaurant, first menu items included in the menu information regarding the second restaurant in order that reflects the taste information including the order record at the first restaurant with the user's permission, without transmitting the taste information regarding the user to the server, the menu information including the first menu items and second menu items specified by the second restaurant; and
transmitting, to the terminal apparatus, the menu information including the first menu items arranged in the order and the second menu items to the terminal apparatus, to display the first menu items arranged in the order in a first display area of a display screen of the terminal apparatus and display the second menu items specified by the second restaurant in a second display area of the display screen.