Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and program

• US 9,571,385 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2013
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitano, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): NANO, SARGON N
• Application Number:
  US13/760,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20130262699A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,469 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/308 Route determination based on user's profile, e.g. premium users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a distribution information acquisition section which acquires distribution information indicating that content-related data is distributed from a first user to a second user through a social network to which the first user and the second user belong, and a route information generation section which generates route information based on the distribution information, the route information indicating a route through which the content-related data is distributed among users belonging to the social network.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

acquire distribution information indicating that content-related data is distributed from a first user to a second user through a social network to which the first user and the second user belong,

generate route information based on the distribution information, the route information indicating a route through which the content-related data is distributed among users belonging to the social network,

acquire license information indicating that the second user obtains a license of content corresponding to the content-related data,

update a license state based on the license information, the license state being associated with the second user in the route information, and

evaluate the users belonging to the social network based on the license state,

wherein when the second user obtains the license of the content, the circuitry is further configured to positively evaluate the first user.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

acquire access information indicating that the second user accesses the content-related data; and

update an access state based on the access information, the access state being associated with the second user in the route information,

wherein when the second user accesses the content-related data without obtaining the license of the content, the circuitry is further configured to negatively evaluate the first user.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

acquire access information indicating that the second user accesses the content-related data; and

update an access state based on the access information, the access state being associated with the second user in the route information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

evaluate the users belonging to the social network based on the access state.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein when the second user accesses the content-related data, the circuitry is further configured to positively evaluate the first user.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

evaluate the users belonging to the social network based on the route information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein when the content-related data is distributed from the second user to a third user, the circuitry is further configured to positively evaluate the first user.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to evaluate the first user according to the number of the second users to which the content-related data is distributed from the first user.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to evaluate the users belonging to the social network on a per group basis, the group including the first user and the second user.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to acquire the distribution information from an activity in the social network.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to acquire the distribution information from application software used by the second user to access the content-related data.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to acquire distribution information included in the content-related data.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate the route information including a root distributor of the content-related data.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, the circuitry is further configured to output the route information as visual information.

15. An information processing system which provides a social network to which a first user and a second user belong, the information processing system comprising:

a terminal device having circuitry which acquires content-related data associated with the second user and distributed from the first user; and

a server device including

circuitry configured to

acquire distribution information through the social network, the distribution information indicating that the terminal device acquires the content-related data,

generate route information based on the distribution information, the route information indicating a route through which the content-related data is distributed among users belonging to the social network,

acquire license information indicating that the second user obtains a license of content corresponding to the content-related data,

update a license state based on the license information, the license state being associated with the second user in the route information, and

evaluate the users belonging to the social network based on the license state,

wherein when the second user obtains the license of the content, the circuitry is further configured to positively evaluate the first user.

16. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing a program that, when executed by a processor of a computer having circuitry, causes the processor to execute a method for processing information, the method comprising:

acquiring distribution information through a social network to which a first user and a second user belong, the distribution information indicating that content-related data is distributed from the first user to the second user;

generating route information based on the distribution information, the route information indicating a route through which the content-related data is distributed among users belonging to the social network;

acquiring license information indicating that the second user obtains a license of content corresponding to the content-related data;

updating a license state based on the license information, the license state being associated with the second user in the route information, and

evaluating the users belonging to the social network based on the license state,

wherein when the second user obtains the license of the content, the first user is positively evaluated.