Content recommendation apparatus, method of content recommendation, and content recommendation system

A method of content recommendation, comprising:

• storing, in a storage, view histories of contents executed during a predetermined period that is longer than a day, each of the view histories including information indicating an application for which a content has been executed and indicating a time at which the content has been executed;
• selecting an application executed during a particular period of time within the predetermined period, by referring to at least one of the view histories corresponding to the particular period of time, the particular period of time being one of a plurality of periods of time of a day sectioned for an individual unit time;
• selecting, as recommendation contents in the particular period of time, more contents that are executed by the selected application than contents that are executed by an application other than the selected application;
• and
• outputting recommendation-content information about the selected recommendation contents when a current time falls under a content-recommendation time period that is prior to the particular period of time.

A content recommendation system comprising:

• a content recommendation apparatus;
• and
• a notification apparatus,
• the content recommendation apparatus comprising
• storage storing instructions,
• an output unit, and
• a content-recommendation-apparatus processor,
• the content-recommendation-apparatus processor executing the stored instructions to:
• store, in the storage, view histories of contents executed during a predetermined period that is longer than a day, each of the view histories including information indicating an application for which a content has been executed and indicating a time at which the content has been executed;
• select an application executed during a particular period of time within the predetermined period, by referring to at least one of the view histories corresponding to the particular period of time, the particular period of time being one of a plurality of periods of time of a day sectioned for an individual unit time;
• select, as recommendation contents in the particular period of time, more contents that are executed by the selected application than contents that are executed by an application other than the selected application;
• and
• output recommendation-content information about the selected recommendation contents to the notification apparatus via the output unit when a current time falls under a content-recommendation time period that is prior to the particular period of time,
• the notification apparatus comprising
• an acquisition unit,
• a notification unit, and
• a notification-apparatus processor,
• the notification-apparatus processor executing the stored instructions to refer to the recommendation-content information acquired via the acquisition unit, and notify information about the recommendation contents via the notification unit.