Information processing system, information processing method, program, and non-transitory information storage medium

• US 9,032,044 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2012
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takamura, Seiichi, Ishida, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): NANO, SARGON N
• Application Number:
  US13/602,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20130067028A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

A search management unit or a data acquisition unit acquires information according to experience contents of a provision destination user to which information is provided. A transition data identifying unit identifies information according to experience contents of a provision source user being a user whose experience contents are brought into correspondence with the experience contents of the provision destination user. An information providing unit provides the provision destination user with the information according to the experience contents of the provision source user. With the above-mentioned configuration, it is possible to promote sharing of experiences among a plurality of users.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to;

(i) acquire information according to experience contents of a provision destination user, the provision destination user being a user to which information is to be provided, where the information according to the experience contents of the provision destination user include progress of a game in which the provision destination user has engaged in gameplay, and (ii) acquire document information stored in a social media system in which content is made public;

an information identifying unit configured to identify information according to experience contents of a provision source user, the provision source user being a user whose said experience contents are brought into correspondence, based at least in part on one or more appearance frequencies of keywords, with the experience contents of the provision destination user; and

an information providing unit configured to provide the provision destination user with the information according to the experience contents of the provision source user and the document information.

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

a data generation unit that generates data representing a plurality of words ordered in accordance with an order of experiences based on information according to the experience contents of the user, wherein the information providing unit provides the provision destination user with information according to a word identified from among the plurality of words based on information representing the experience contents of the provision destination user.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the data generation unit generates, based on a plurality of pieces of document information each of which is associated with a date/time, data in which a plurality of words included in the plurality of pieces of document information are ordered in accordance with an order of the date/time associated with each of the plurality of pieces of document information including the plurality of words.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein:

the data generation unit generates a plurality of data pieces representing the plurality of words;

the information processing system further comprises a data identifying unit that identifies, based on the information according to the experience contents of the provision destination user, at least one of the plurality of data pieces representing the plurality of words brought into correspondence with the information; and

the information providing unit provides the provision destination user with information according to a word identified from among the plurality of words represented by the at least one of the plurality of data pieces identified by the data identifying unit.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein:

the data generation unit generates the data representing the plurality of words based on a name of experience contents data representing the experience contents of the user stored in a management system that manages the experience contents of the user and the document information; and

at least one of the plurality of words comprises a word brought into correspondence with the experience contents data, and at least one of the plurality of words comprises a word brought into correspondence with the document information.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the information identifying unit identifies information according to progress of the game of the provision source user being a user whose progress of the game is brought into correspondence with the progress of the game of the provision destination user;

and the information providing unit provides the provision destination user with information according to the progress of the game of the provision source user.

7. An information processing method, comprising:

acquiring information according to experience contents of a provision destination user, the provision destination user being a user to which information is to be provided, where the information according to the experience contents of the provision destination user include progress of a game in which the provision destination user has engaged in gameplay;

acquiring document information stored in a social media system in which content is made public;

identifying information according to the experience contents of a provision source user, the provision sources user being a user whose said experience contents are brought into correspondence, based at least in part on one or more appearance frequencies of keywords, with the experience contents of the provision destination user;

and providing the provision destination user with the information according to the experience contents of the provision source user and the document information.

8. A program stored in a non-transitory computer readable information storage medium, which is to be executed by a computer, the program including instructions to:

acquire information according to experience contents of a provision destination user, the provision destination user being a user to which information is to be provided, where the information according to the experience contents of the provision destination user include progress of a game in which the provision destination user has engaged in gameplay;

acquire document information stored in a social media system in which content is made public;

identify information according to the experience contents of a provision source user, the provision source user being a user whose said experience contents are brought into correspondence, based at least in part on one or more appearance frequencies of keywords, with the experience contents of the provision destination user;

and provide the provision destination user with the information according to the experience contents of the provision source user and the document information.

9. A non-transitory computer readable information storage medium storing a program which is to be executed by a computer, the program including instructions to:

acquire information according to experience contents of a provision destination user, the provision destination user being a user to which information is to be provided, where the information according to the experience contents of the provision destination user include progress of a game in which the provision destination user has engaged in gameplay;

acquire document information stored in a social media system in which content is made public;

identify information according to the experience contents of a provision source user, the provision source user being a user whose said experience contents are brought into correspondence, based at least in part on one or more appearance frequencies of keywords, with the experience contents of the provision destination user; and

provide the provision destination user with the information according to the experience contents of the provision source user and the document information.