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INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE, INFORMATION PRESENTING METHOD, INFORMATION PRESENTING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

  • US 20100010986A1
  • Filed: 08/23/2007
  • Published: 01/14/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information presenting device for presenting a relationship between pluralities of data pieces, each plurality of data pieces being held by a respective one of a plurality of users, the information presenting device comprising:

  • an acquiring unit operable to acquire at least (i) a first information group composed of a plurality of data pieces each held by a first user and attached with a first attribute and a second attribute, and (ii) a second information group composed of a plurality of data pieces each held by a second user and attached with the first attribute and the second attribute;

    a generating unit operable to, with respect to each of a plurality of values of the first attribute, extract data pieces having a same value of the first attribute from the first information group and the second information group, thereby generating a first subgroup consisting of the data pieces having the same value from the first information group, and a second subgroup consisting of the data pieces having the same value from the second information group;

    a calculating unit operable to, with respect to each of pair of generated first and second subgroups, each pair pertaining to a different one of the first attribute values, calculate a commonality between second attributes attached to the data pieces in the first subgroup and second attributes attached to the data pieces in the second subgroup in the pair;

    a determining unit operable to determine a presentation order in which to present all the calculated commonalities, based on how many data pieces the first and second subgroups in each respective pair contain; and

    a presenting unit operable to present the calculated commonalities arranged in the determined presentation order.

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