INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20100031194A1
• Filed: 06/23/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawaguchi, Kimitaka
• Granted Patent: US 9,235,430 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a storage unit to store reference parameter information made up of a plurality of pieces of parameter information and associated with each program, an acquisition unit to acquire the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time, a specifying unit to specify a program associated with a reference parameter similar to the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time, and a display control unit to create a startup menu screen containing a startup display of a program according to a specified result by the specifying unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a storage unit to store reference parameter information made up of a plurality of pieces of parameter information and associated with each program;

an acquisition unit to acquire the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time;

a specifying unit to specify a program associated with a reference parameter similar to the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time; and

a display control unit to create a startup menu screen containing a startup display of a program according to a specified result by the specifying unit.

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

an information management unit to update the reference parameter information stored in the storage unit by using the plurality of pieces of parameter information at startup of each program.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the plurality of pieces of parameter information at least include temporal information and positional information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the temporal information includes time information and day-of-week information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a communication unit capable of communicating with an information server storing reference parameter information, wherein

the storage unit stores reference parameter information received from the information server by the communication unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a communication unit to transmit the reference parameter information stored in the storage unit to an information server.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the information server stores reference parameter information received from a plurality of information processing apparatus with respect to each information processing apparatus, and

upon receiving reference parameter information from the communication unit, the information server transmits a reference parameter of an information processing apparatus similar to the reference parameter information in return.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the specifying unit specifies a program by using a reference parameter stored in the storage unit and a reference parameter transmitted from the information server.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a communication unit to transmit the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time to an information server storing reference parameter information in association with each program, wherein

the information server specifies a program associated with a reference parameter similar to the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time among stored programs and transmits a list of the program to the communication unit.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the specifying unit determines parameter information to be used for specifying a program based on one parameter information among the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the specifying unit changes parameter information to be used for specifying a program according to conditions of user operation.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the information management unit calculates center parameter information of reference parameter information of a plurality of programs having similarity of a threshold or higher, and

the specifying unit specifies a program by using the center parameter information as the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

the specifying unit specifies a program by using other center parameter information as the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time according to user operation.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the plurality of pieces of parameter information include connection destination identification information indicating an external device connected to the information processing apparatus.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the information processing apparatus is capable of transmitting and receiving the reference parameter information stored in the storage unit to and from another information processing apparatus.

16. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

storing reference parameter information made up of a plurality of pieces of parameter information and associated with each program;

acquiring the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time;

specifying a program associated with a reference parameter similar to the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time; and

creating a startup menu screen containing a startup display of a program according to a specified result.

17. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus comprising:

an information management unit to record reference parameter information made up of a plurality of pieces of parameter information and associated with each program on a storage unit;

an acquisition unit to acquire the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time;

a specifying unit to specify a program associated with a reference parameter similar to the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time; and

a display control unit to create a startup menu screen containing a startup display of a program according to a specified result by the specifying unit.

18. An information processing system comprising:

an information server storing reference parameter information made up of a plurality of pieces of parameter information and associated with each program; and

an information processing apparatus including

an acquisition unit to acquire the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time,

a specifying unit to specify a program associated with a reference parameter similar to the plurality of pieces of parameter information of current time in the information server, and

a display control unit to create a startup menu screen containing a startup display of a program according to a specified result by the specifying unit.