Information processing system and information processing method

• US 8,996,412 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2009
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nagasaka, Hideo, Fujiwara, Nobuyuki, Kimijima, Tadaaki, Miyoshi, Toshimasa, Tokashiki, Mamoru, Tominaga, Takashi, Inoue, Shigeru, Miyajima, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Coppola, Jacob C.
• Application Number:
  US12/476,342
• Publication Number:
  US 20090299823A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,128 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26.7
• US Class Current: 705/26.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks

Abstract

An information processing system includes a terminal device and a server device. When recommending subsidiary contents, recommended contents are extracted at the server, and recommended content information is returned to the terminal device. At the terminal device, a recommendation order is set regarding the recommended contents which the recommended content information indicates, upon which the recommended contents are presented, such that recommended content extracting processing and recommendation order setting processing is dispersed among the server device and terminal device.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a server device configured to store and manage at least one piece of subsidiary content, each piece of subsidiary content having been generated by an editing process that uses at least one piece of primary content as source editing material, wherein a piece of subsidiary content includes playback control information including instructions for playback of the at least one piece of primary content that was source editing material for the piece of subsidiary content, the server device comprising at least one processor configured to;

identify one or more pieces of subsidiary content based at least in part on a received content identifier identifying a selected piece of primary content; and

transmit metadata corresponding to each of the identified pieces of subsidiary content to a terminal device as recommended contents; and

a terminal device configured to execute playback processing for a piece of subsidiary content by playing back at least one piece of held primary content, the at least one piece of held primary content being primary content the terminal device holds, the terminal device comprising at least one processor configured to;

transmit a recommended content information request to said server device, the recommended content information request including a content identifier identifying the at least one piece of held primary content for which playback processing is being executed by said terminal device;

receive metadata corresponding to at least one piece of recommended subsidiary content from the server;

determine a recommendation order of the at least one piece of recommended subsidiary content based at least in part on, for each piece of recommended subsidiary content, the number of pieces of primary content that the user of the terminal device holds that were used as source editing material in generating the piece of recommended subsidiary content; and

present the at least one recommended piece of subsidiary content to the user according to the recommendation order.

2. The information processing system of claim 1, wherein the recommendation order of the at least one piece of recommended subsidiary content is such that pieces of recommended subsidiary content with fewer lacking pieces of primary content appear higher within the recommendation order.