Information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium, and program

• US 8,706,512 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2003
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kato, Yoshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Coppola, Jacob C.
• Application Number:
  US10/656,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20040064369A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,879 Days
• Field of Search: 705 50- 79, 705/1.1
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/14 Details of searching files based on file metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0235 constrained by time limit or expiration date
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a storing element for storing content data; a managing element for managing preference data by which to determine preferences of a user; a reading element for reading the content data from the storing element in response to an instruction from the user; a sorting element for sorting the content data read by the reading element, in accordance with the preference data managed by the managing element; and a composing element for composing the content data sorted by the sorting element, into a single item ready to be handled by the user.

Claims

1. An information processing method implemented using an information processing apparatus having a central processing unit and a computer readable storage medium, comprising:

receiving at least one order corresponding to a genre;

storing a plurality of content data in the computer readable storage medium, the plurality of content data corresponding to the at least one order;

managing, using the information processing apparatus, preference data by which to determine preferences based on a quantity of previous orders, each order corresponding to a genre;

reading said plurality of content data, which is stored to said computer readable storage medium by said storing, in response to an instruction;

arranging, using the information processing apparatus, said plurality of content data read in said reading, in accordance with said preference data managed in said managing; and

composing, using the information processing apparatus, said plurality of content data arranged in said arranging, into a single document including the plurality of content data for display.

2. A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instruction which when executed cause a data processor to implement a method comprising:

receiving at least one order corresponding to a genre;

storing a plurality of content data, the plurality of content data corresponding to the at least one order;

managing preference data by which to determine preferences based on a quantity of previous orders, each order corresponding to a genre;

reading said plurality of content data, which is stored by the storing, in response to an instruction;

arranging said plurality of content data read in said reading, in accordance with said preference data managed in said managing; and

composing said plurality of content data arranged in said arranging, into a single document including the plurality of content data for display.