Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium
First Claim
1. An information processing apparatus for providing a recommendation to a user, comprising:
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an association degree collection section configured to collect, from the user, association degrees applied between items for associating the items with one another, the association degrees being values indicative of weights of relationships between the items, the values being subtracted from a point total associated with the user, wherein the user is inhibited from applying association degrees that would result in a negative point total;
an inter-item association degree database configured to store the collected association degrees as values specific to the user;
an introduction section configured to determine a recommendation of associated items from a reference item based on the user-specific collected association degrees and introduce the recommendation to the user; and
an item explanation section configured to produce an explanation, based on a selected explanation template, concerning the nature of the recommendation, and apply the explanation to the recommendation for presenting to the user.
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Abstract
Herein disclosed an information processing apparatus for providing a service of introducing, from a predetermined item which is to make a reference, associated items associated with the reference item to one or more different information processing apparatus, including: an association degree collection section configured to collect association degrees applied between items by users of the different information processing apparatus and indicative of weights of a relationship between the items; and an introduction section configured to determine the associated items from the reference item based on a result of the collection by the association degree collection section and introduce the determined associated items to any of the different information processing apparatus.
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8 Claims
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1. An information processing apparatus for providing a recommendation to a user, comprising:
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a processor; an association degree collection section configured to collect, from the user, association degrees applied between items for associating the items with one another, the association degrees being values indicative of weights of relationships between the items, the values being subtracted from a point total associated with the user, wherein the user is inhibited from applying association degrees that would result in a negative point total; an inter-item association degree database configured to store the collected association degrees as values specific to the user; an introduction section configured to determine a recommendation of associated items from a reference item based on the user-specific collected association degrees and introduce the recommendation to the user; and an item explanation section configured to produce an explanation, based on a selected explanation template, concerning the nature of the recommendation, and apply the explanation to the recommendation for presenting to the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An information processing method comprising the steps of:
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collecting, from a user, association degrees applied between items for associating the items with one another, the association degrees being values indicative of weights of relationships between the items, the values being subtracted from a point total associated with the user, wherein the user is inhibited from applying association degrees that would result in a negative point total; storing the collected association degrees as values specific to the user; determining a recommendation of associated items from a reference item based on the user-specific collected association degrees and introduce the recommendation to the user; producing an explanation, based on a selected explanation template, concerning the nature of the recommendation; and applying the explanation to the recommendation for presenting to the user.
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8. A computer-readable storage medium storing instruction that, when executed by a processor, perform a method comprising:
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collecting, from a user, association degrees applied between items for associating the items with one another, the association degrees being values indicative of weights of relationships between the items, the values being subtracted from a point total associated with the user, wherein the user is inhibited from applying association degrees that would result in a negative point total; storing the collected association degrees as values specific to the user; determining a recommendation of associated items from a reference item based on the user-specific collected association degrees and introduce the recommendation to the user; producing an explanation, based on a selected explanation template, concerning the nature of the recommendation; and applying the explanation to the recommendation for presenting to the user.
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