Apparatus, method, and program for information processing

• US 8,209,329 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2008
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Asai, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): LIANG, VEI CHUNG
• Application Number:
  US12/098,554
• Publication Number:
  US 20080301126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,541 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/725
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536

Abstract

An information processor is disclosed. The processor includes: a keyword extraction portion for extracting keywords from a text created by a user; a keyword information acquisition portion for acquiring given keyword information about the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction portion; an interest degree calculation portion for finding information about degrees of interest indicating user'"'"'s degrees of interest in the keywords, based on the keyword information; a keyword selection portion for selecting given keywords from the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction portion, based on the information about the degrees of interest; and a content decision portion for determining a content recommended to the user, based on the keywords selected by the keyword selection portion.

Claims

1. An information processor comprising:

a keyword extraction portion for extracting keywords from a text created by a user;

a keyword information acquisition portion for acquiring keyword information about the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction portion;

an interest degree calculation portion for finding information about degrees of interest indicating user'"'"'s degrees of interest in the keywords, based on the keyword information;

a keyword selection portion for selecting interest keywords from the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction portion, based on the information about the degrees of interest; and

a content decision portion for determining a content recommended to the user, based on the interest keywords selected by the keyword selection portion,

wherein the interest degree calculation portion assigns a higher degree of interest to keywords extracted from a first text than keywords extracted from a second text,

wherein the user has a copyright on a content comprising the first text, and

wherein the user has no copyright on a content comprising the second text,

wherein the keyword information includes information indicating an instant of time corresponding to an instant of time at which the text from which the keywords are extracted was created,

wherein a weight is attached to a keyword extracted from a the text corresponding to the time at which the text was created, and

wherein a higher weight is attached to a keyword extracted from the text created at an instant of time closer in time to the present instant of time.

2. An information processor as set forth in claim 1, wherein the keyword information further includes:

information indicating positions of the keywords in the text, and information indicating the number of appearances of the keywords in the text.

3. An information processor as set forth in claim 1, wherein the text is associated with the content, and wherein the keyword information is information indicating a kind of the content to which the text is related.

4. An information processor as set forth in claim 3, wherein the content is a broadcast content, a network content, or a personal content.

5. An information processor as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the text includes plural items,

wherein the information processor further comprises a text acquisition portion for acquiring a text of an item of the plural items,

wherein the keyword extraction portion extracts keywords from the text of the item, and

wherein the keyword information acquisition portion acquires information indicating a kind of the item having the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction portion as the keyword information.

6. A method of information processing, comprising the steps of:

extracting keywords from a text created by a user;

acquiring keyword information about the keywords extracted by processing of the extracting step;

finding interest degree information indicating degrees of interest of the user in the keywords, based on the keyword information;

selecting interest keywords from the keywords extracted by processing of the extracting step, based on the interest degree information; and

determining a content recommended to the user, based on the interest keywords selected by processing of the selecting step,

wherein the finding step assigns a higher degree of interest to keywords extracted from a first text than keywords extracted from a second text,

wherein the user has a copyright on a content comprising the first text, and

wherein the user has no copyright on a content comprising the second text,

wherein the keyword information includes information indicating an instant of time corresponding to an instant of time at which the text from which the keywords are extracted was created,

wherein a higher weight is attached to a keyword extracted from the text corresponding to the time at which the text was created, and

wherein a higher weight is attached to a keyword extracted from the text created at an instant of time closer in time to the present instant of time.

7. A non-transitory storing medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform information processing, the program including the steps of:

extracting keywords from a text created by a user;

acquiring keyword information about the keywords extracted by processing of the extracting step;

finding interest degree information indicating degrees of interest of the user in the keywords, based on the keyword information;

selecting interest keywords from the keywords extracted by processing of the extracting step, based on the interest degree information; and

determining a content recommended to the user, based on the interest keywords selected by processing of the selecting step,

wherein the finding step assigns a higher degree of interest to keywords extracted from a first text than keywords extracted from a second text,

wherein the user has a copyright on a content comprising the first text, and

wherein the user has no copyright on a content comprising the second text,

wherein the keyword information includes information indicating an instant of time corresponding to an instant of time at which the text from which the keywords are extracted was created,

wherein a higher weight is attached to a keyword extracted from the text corresponding to the time at which the text was created, and

wherein a higher weight is attached to a keyword extracted from the text created at an instant of time closer in time to the present instant of time.