Content and playlist providing method

• US 20060293909A1
• Filed: 03/30/2006
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Inoue, Makoto, Sako, Yoichiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Miyajima, Yasushi, Sasaki, Toru, Nakamura, Takatoshi, Takehara, Mitsuru, Asukai, Masamichi, Yamashita, Kosei, Matsuda, Masafumi
• Granted Patent: US 8,214,431 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/345 Polarising encoders

Abstract

A content providing method includes the steps of preparing, on a network, a bulletin board server that provides an electronic bulletin board and a content server that accommodates content; enabling, by the bulletin board server, a second user to make a post on a topic when a first user introduces the topic under a predetermined title on the electronic bulletin board; outputting, by the bulletin board server, a list indicating recommended content as a playlist to an apparatus of a user who accesses via the network when the second user posts information on the recommended content that suits the title in the topic; and outputting, by the content server, designated content to the apparatus of the user to which the playlist is output when the content included in the playlist is designated.

Claims

1. A playlist providing method comprising the steps of:

enabling a second user to make a post on a topic when a first user introduces the topic under a predetermined title on an electronic bulletin board; and

outputting a list indicating recommended content as a playlist via a network when the second user posts information on the recommended content that suits the title in the topic.

2. The playlist providing method according to claim 1, wherein:

information on a rating is provided to the second user who made the post; and

whether or not the post on the topic is permitted to be viewed is set in accordance with the information on the rating provided to the second user who made the post.

3. The playlist providing method according to claim 2, wherein a third user who recommends content that is identical to the recommended content and a post made by the third user are viewable.

4. The playlist providing method according to claim 2, wherein another topic including the recommended content is viewable.

5. A content providing method comprising the steps of:

preparing, on a network, a bulletin board server that provides an electronic bulletin board and a content server that accommodates content;

enabling, by the bulletin board server, a second user to make a post on a topic when a first user introduces the topic under a predetermined title on the electronic bulletin board;

outputting, by the bulletin board server, a list indicating recommended content as a playlist to an apparatus of a user who accesses via the network when the second user posts information on the recommended content that suits the title in the topic; and

outputting, by the content server, designated content to the apparatus of the user to which the playlist is output when the content included in the playlist is designated.

6. The content providing method according to claim 5, wherein:

information on a rating is provided to the second user who made the post; and

whether or not the post on the topic is permitted to be viewed is set in accordance with the information on the rating provided to the second user who made the post.