Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9516133-B2
Application number	US-12107408-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2008
Priority date	May 24, 2007
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

An information processing device includes: a control section that displays, in response to an operation of an operation section, a piece of map information on a display section and acquires, in accordance with the piece of map information displayed on the display section, a list of content related to the piece of map information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing server apparatus, comprising:
circuitry configured to
receive requests from a plurality of local terminals, the requests requesting transmission of content and including location information for each of the plurality of local terminals,
determine physical location information for each of the plurality of local terminals based on the location information included in the requests,
aggregate the requests for the content from the plurality of local terminals based on the physical location information corresponding to each of the plurality of local terminals, and
provide a graphical user interface (GUI) including a first area and a second area, the first area displaying a geographical map, the second area displaying a ranking list based on a number of requests for each content received from a selected region on the geographical map,
wherein the first area and the second area are simultaneously displayed on at least one of the plurality of local terminals, the first area and the second area do not overlap, and the second area includes a fixing button that, when actuated, maintains items displayed in the ranking list fixed when the map in the first area is changed, and
the GUI includes a window that displays parameters for updating the ranking list, and the circuitry updates the ranking list based on a parameter selected from the window.

2. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each request is associated with corresponding registered user information that includes the location information.

3. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the corresponding registered user information includes user age and gender,
the parameters displayed in the window include age and gender,
the circuitry updates the ranking list based on age using the aggregated requests in a case that age is the selected parameter,
the circuitry updates the ranking list based on gender in a case that gender is the selected parameter, and
the circuitry transmits at least a part of the ranking list to at least one of the plurality of local terminals after updating.

4. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate the ranking list based on the aggregated requests, and to transmit the ranking list to at least one of the plurality of local terminals.

5. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the circuitry generates the ranking list at predetermined intervals.

6. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the predetermined interval is at least one day.

7. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the location information included in the requests is physical location information.

8. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first area is adjacent to the second area in the GUI.

9. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the parameters displayed in the window include a time of transmission of the contents based on the requests, and circuitry is further configured to generate the ranking list based on the time of transmission of the contents corresponding to the requests in a case that the time of transmission of the contents corresponding to the requests is the selected parameter.

10. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the selected region includes the entire world and the ranking list includes rankings indicative of requests received from the entire world.

11. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the window is displayed based on user actuation of a displayed button.

12. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the window overlaps at least one of the first and second areas.

13. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when one user-selectable geographical region is selected from two or more selectable geographical regions included on the geographical map, the displayed ranking list is updated based on a number of requests for each content corresponding to the selected user-selectable geographical region.

14. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to highlight the selected region of the geographical map.

15. The information processing server apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to display a cursor on the geographical map, the cursor being used to select the selected region of the geographical map.

16. A method for an information processing server apparatus, comprising:
receiving, in circuitry, requests from a plurality of local terminals, the requests requesting transmission of content and including location information for each of the plurality of local terminals,
determining, in the circuitry, physical location information for each of the plurality of local terminals based on the location information included in the requests;
aggregating, in the circuitry, the requests for the content from the plurality of local terminals based on the physical location information corresponding to each of the plurality of local terminals; and
providing, with the circuitry, a graphical user interface (GUI) including a first area and a second area, the first area displaying a geographical map, the second area displaying a ranking list based on a number of requests for each content received from a selected region on the geographical map,
wherein the first area and the second area are simultaneously displayed on at least one of the plurality of local terminals, and the first area and the second area do not overlap, and the second area includes a fixing button that, when actuated, maintains items displayed in the ranking list fixed when the map in the first area is changed, and
the GUI includes a window that displays parameters for updating the ranking list, and the ranking list is updated based on a parameter selected from the window.

17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein each request is associated with corresponding registered user information that includes the location information.

18. The method according to claim 17 , further comprising:
updating, at the circuitry, the ranking list based on user age and using the aggregated requests, in a case that age is the selected parameter, the user age and gender being included in the corresponding registered user information;
updating, at the circuitry, the ranking list based on the gender in a case that gender is the selected parameter; and
transmitting at least part of the ranking list to at least one of the local terminals after updating.

19. The method according to claim 16 , further comprising:
generating, in the circuitry, the ranking list based on the aggregated requests; and
transmitting the ranking list from the circuitry to at least one of the plurality of local terminals.

20. The method according to claim 19 , wherein the ranking list is generated at a predetermined interval.

21. The method according to claim 20 , wherein the predetermined interval is at least one day.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer readable instructions when executed by an information processing server

Assignees

• Nakamura Kentaro
• Sasaki Toru
• Tange Akira
• Matsuda Masafumi
• Tokuhara Kumiko
• Jung Yongjin
• Kasahara Masaki
• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Nakamura Kentaro
• Sasaki Toru
• Tange Akira
• Matsuda Masafumi
• Tokuhara Kumiko
• Jung Yongjin
• Kasahara Masaki

Classifications

• H04W4/02 Primary

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• H04L67/18

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/306 Primary

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04L67/52

  specially adapted for the location of the user terminal · CPC title

• G06F16/686

  using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings · CPC title