INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140122528A1
• Filed: 05/15/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: YAMAGISHI, Yasuaki
• Granted Patent: US 10,002,206 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting

Abstract

An information processing device for obtaining contents distributed from a server, includes an answer generating section configured to generate user side answer information as information indicating an answer of a user to a question about a preference of the user so as to correspond to question information as information indicating the question, the question information being transmitted from the server. The device further includes a matching section configured to obtain the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information as information indicating an answer set to the question by a provider providing the contents, the provider side answer information being transmitted from the server. The matching section is provided as a Web application, and performs the matching between the user side answer information and the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

Claims

1. An information processing device for obtaining contents distributed from a server, the information processing device comprising:

an answer generating section configured to generate user side answer information as information indicating an answer of a user to a question about a preference of the user so as to correspond to question information as information indicating the question, the question information being transmitted from the server; and

a matching section configured to obtain the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information as information indicating an answer set to the question by a provider providing the contents, the provider side answer information being transmitted from the server;

wherein the matching section is provided as a Web application, and performs the matching between the user side answer information and the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

a storage section configured to store the user side answer information generated by the answer generating section,

wherein the matching section performs the matching between the user side answer information stored in the storage section and the provider side answer information by calling the plurality of APIs.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the matching section calls a user side answer information obtaining API for obtaining the user side answer information from the storage section.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the matching section calls a provider side answer information obtaining API for obtaining the provider side answer information from the server.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein when the storage section is configured as a database, the matching section calls the user side answer information evaluating API for evaluating whether the user side answer information corresponding to the provider side answer information is stored in the storage section, and the matching section obtains the contents corresponding to the provider side answer information for which an evaluation result is true.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the matching section calls a content obtaining API for obtaining the contents using a result of the matching.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the matching section obtains the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the user side answer information and a query indicating a combination of answers set by the provider, the query being transmitted from the server.

8. The information processing device according to claim 7,

wherein the matching section calls a query obtaining API for obtaining the query from the server.

9. The information processing device according to claim 7,

wherein when the storage section is configured as a database, the matching section calls the user side answer information evaluating API for evaluating whether the user side answer information corresponding to the query is stored in the storage section, and the matching section obtains the contents corresponding to the query for which an evaluation result is true.

10. An information processing method of an information processing device for obtaining contents distributed from a server, the information processing method comprising:

an answer generating step of generating user side answer information as information indicating an answer of a user to a question about a preference of the user so as to correspond to question information as information indicating the question, the question information being transmitted from the server; and

a matching step of obtaining the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the user side answer information and provider side answer information as information indicating an answer set to the question by a provider providing the contents, the provider side answer information being transmitted from the server;

wherein the matching step performs the matching between the user side answer information and the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) on a Web application.

11. An information processing device for obtaining contents distributed from a server, the information processing device comprising:

a query generating section configured to generate a query indicating a combination of answers of a user to questions about preferences of the user so as to correspond to question information as information indicating the questions, the question information being transmitted from the server; and

a matching section configured to obtain the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the query and provider side answer information as information indicating answers set to the questions by a provider providing the contents, the provider side answer information being transmitted from the server;

wherein the matching section is provided as a Web application, and performs the matching between the query and the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

12. The information processing device according to claim 11, further comprising

a storage section configured to store the query generated by the query generating section,

wherein the matching section performs the matching between the query stored in the storage section and the provider side answer information by calling the plurality of APIs.

13. The information processing device according to claim 12,

wherein the matching section calls a query obtaining API for obtaining the query from the storage section.

14. The information processing device according to claim 12,

wherein the matching section calls a provider side answer information obtaining API for obtaining the provider side answer information from the server.

15. The information processing device according to claim 12,

wherein when the storage section is configured as a database, the matching section calls the query evaluating API for evaluating whether the query corresponding to the provider side answer information is stored in the storage section, and the matching section obtains the contents corresponding to the provider side answer information for which an evaluation result is true.

16. The information processing device according to claim 12,

wherein the matching section calls a content obtaining API for obtaining the contents using a result of the matching.

17. An information processing method of an information processing device for obtaining contents distributed from a server, the information processing method comprising:

a query generating step of generating a query indicating a combination of answers of a user to questions about preferences of the user so as to correspond to question information as information indicating the questions, the question information being transmitted from the server; and

a matching step of obtaining the contents distributed from the server by performing matching between the query and provider side answer information as information indicating answers set to the questions by a provider providing the contents, the provider side answer information being transmitted from the server;

wherein the matching step performs the matching between the query and the provider side answer information by calling a plurality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) on a Web application.