INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130318460A1
• Filed: 04/09/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TATENO, Kei
• Granted Patent: US 9,405,440 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a statistical amount selecting unit that selects, from a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users, a statistical amount to be used based on distribution of each of the statistical amounts, a priority setting unit that sets priorities of a plurality of users, based on the selected statistical amount, and a display control unit that controls display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a statistical amount selecting unit that selects, from a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users, a statistical amount to be used based on distribution of each of the statistical amounts;

a priority setting unit that sets priorities of a plurality of users, based on the selected statistical amount; and

a display control unit that controls display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the priority setting unit sets the priorities of the plurality of users, based on a value designated with respect to the selected statistical amount.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the priority setting unit sets a priority of a user whose statistical amount is within a range of the designated value high or low.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit performs control in a manner that a user interface for designating the value of the selected statistical amounts is displayed together with the plurality of users or the plurality of pieces of information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit controls display order of the plurality of users or the plurality of pieces of information, based on the priorities.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit extracts a user or information to be displayed, from the plurality of users or the plurality of pieces of information, based on the priorities.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit performs control in a manner that a value of the selected statistical amount of each user is displayed together with the plurality of users.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the priority setting unit sets high a priority of a user whose similarity of the selected statistical amount with the plurality of users or users viewing the plurality of pieces of information are high.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the statistical amount selecting unit selects the statistical amounts to be used, based on an extent of the distribution of the statistical amount in the plurality of users with respect to distribution of the statistical amount in a specific group including the plurality of users.

10. An information processing method comprising:

selecting, from a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users, a statistical amount to be used based on distribution of each of the statistical amounts;

setting priorities of a plurality of users, based on the selected statistical amount; and

controlling display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.

11. A program for causing a computer to execute processing including:

selecting, from a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users, a statistical amount to be used based on distribution of each of the statistical amounts;

setting priorities of a plurality of users, based on the selected statistical amount; and

controlling display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.