MARKET INVESTIGATION SERVER AND SERVER GROUP, MARKET INVESTIGATION SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE SERVER AND SERVER GROUP AND METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING MARKET

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a market investigation system capable of investigating a market about how ideas are possessed by persons gathering in a certain area by utilizing a terminal connected to the Internet without using a procedure for specifying the position of the terminal.;SOLUTION: A server 4 transmits preference information corresponding to a user identifier(ID) sent from a terminal 2 to a server 5. The server 5 displays a question of area-limited information and transmits a picture for inputting its answer. A terminal user obtains a hint for the answer in the area of the area-limited information and transmits the answer to the server 5 through the terminal 2. The server 5 correspondingly registers the preference information and the area-limited information, stores the registered contents of plural users and performs market investigation on the basis of the stored preference information and area-limited information.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO