Content server, content providing system, content providing method and computer program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9319718-B2
Application number	US-24884708-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 9, 2008
Priority date	Nov 19, 2007
Publication date	Apr 19, 2016
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016

Abstract

There is provided a content server which stores a content and provides the stored content to a terminal including: a content information storage portion which stores information relating to the content to be provided to the terminal; a terminal history storage portion which stores the history of each of the terminal; a terminal control information generating portion which generates control information to the terminal to which the content is to be provided based on information stored in the content information storage portion and the terminal history storage portion; and a terminal control portion which controls the content to be provided to the terminal based on the information generated by the terminal control information generating portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry that:
receives content information relating to content to be provided to two terminals;
receives terminal history information including operation history of the two terminals;
receives user preference information including viewing history of the content for the two terminals;
calculates, for each of the two terminals, a score which serves as a criterion for providing a content list to the two terminals, wherein the score includes a content deletion possibility score of the content to be deleted from the two terminals, the content deletion possibility score being calculated based on: a user of the terminal deleted a content from the terminal, the user of the terminal set a content to be stored, and the user of the terminal is on viewing a content;
provides the content list to the two terminals based on the content information, the terminal history information and the user preference information, wherein the provided content list to the two terminals includes different content corresponding to the terminal history information of the two terminals; and
serves the content in the content list to the two terminals.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory for storing the content information, the terminal history information, and the user preference information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the content list is displayed on the two terminals.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the content deletion possibility score is calculated such that a content is deleted when the user of the terminal deleted the content from the terminal.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the content deletion possibility score is calculated such that a content is not deleted when the user of the terminal set a content to be stored.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the content deletion possibility score is calculated such that a content is not deleted when the user of the terminal is on viewing the content.

7. A computer-implemented method for providing the content to two terminals, comprising:
receiving content information relating to content to be provided to the two terminals;
receiving terminal history information including operation history of the two terminals;
receiving user preference information including viewing history of the content for the two terminals;
calculating, for each of the two terminals, a score which serves as a criterion for providing a content list to the two terminals, wherein the score includes a content deletion possibility score of the content to be deleted from the two terminals, the content deletion possibility score being calculated based on: a user of the terminal deleted a content from the terminal, the user of the terminal set a content to be stored, and the user of the terminal is on viewing a content;
providing the content list to the two terminals based on the content information, the terminal history information and the user preference information, wherein the provided content list to the two terminals includes different content corresponding to the terminal history information of the two terminals; and
serving the content in the content list to the two terminals.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising storing the content information, the terminal history information, and the user preference information in a memory.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the content list is displayed on the two terminals.

10. A non-transitory recording medium having recorded therein a program that comprises instructions that cause a computer to perform:
receiving content information relating to content to be provided to the two terminals;
receiving terminal history information including operation history of the two terminals;
receiving user preference information including viewing history of the content for the two terminals;
calculating, for each of the two terminals, a score which serves as a criterion for providing a content list to the two terminals, wherein the score includes a content deletion possibility score of the content to be deleted from the two terminals, the content deletion possibility score being calculated based on: a user of the terminal deleted a content from the terminal, the user of the terminal set a content to be stored, and the user of the terminal is on viewing a content;
providing the content list to the two terminals based on the content information, the terminal history information and the user preference information, wherein the provided content list to the two terminals includes different content corresponding to the terminal history information of the two terminals; and
serving the content in the content list to the two terminals.

11. The non-transitory recording medium according to claim 10 , wherein the program further comprises instructions that cause a computer to perform:
storing the content information, the terminal history information, and the user preference information in a memory.

12. The non-transitory recording medium according to claim 10 , wherein the content list is displayed on the two terminals.

Assignees

• Kurata Yoshinori
• Morita Masahiro
• Doi Shouichi
• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Kurata Yoshinori
• Morita Masahiro
• Doi Shouichi

Classifications

• H04N21/252

  Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data · CPC title

• H04N21/25

  Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies {(maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00)} · CPC title

• H04N21/21

  Server components or server architectures · CPC title

• H04N21/4126

  The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones · CPC title

• H04N21/43622

  Interfacing an external recording device · CPC title