US 7,587,382 B2
Information processing apparatus and information processing method, recording medium, and program
Noriyuki Yamamoto, Kanagawa (Japan); Mitsuhiro Miyazaki, Kanagawa (Japan); Mari Saito, Kanagawa (Japan); and Hiroyuki Koike, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 01, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/514,255.
Application 11/514255 is a division of application No. 10/538181, previously published as PCT/JP2003/15926, filed on Dec. 12, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-361277 (JP), filed on Dec. 12, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0294093 A1, Dec. 28, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 707—1 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A computer readable medium including computer executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for making a computer execute a process of selecting a content suiting preference of a user, the method comprising:
obtaining attribute information of said content having a plurality of items;
generating preference information corresponding to a same element in a predetermined item of the plurality of said items, using said attribute information-including said element; and
generating recommendation information indicating the content recommended for viewing to said user by extracting said preference information corresponding to said element in said predetermined item and calculating a degree of similarity between said preference information and said attribute information.