Information Processing Apparatus and Method, Program and Recording Medium

An information processing method for an information processing apparatus for providing a service of introducing, from a predetermined item which is to make a reference, associated items associated with the reference item to one or more different information processing apparatus, comprising the steps of:

• collecting association degrees applied between items by users of the different information processing apparatus and indicative of weights of a relationship between the items;
• and
• determining the associated items from the reference item based on a result of the collection by the process at the association degree collection step and introduce the determined associated items to any of the different information processing apparatus.

A program which can be executed by a computer which controls a process of providing a service of introducing, from a predetermined item which is to make a reference, associated items associated with the reference item to one or more different information processing apparatus, comprising the steps of:

• collecting association degrees applied between items by users of the different information processing apparatus and indicative of weights of a relationship between the items;
• and
• determining the associated items from the reference item based on a result of the collection by the process at the association degree collection step and introduce the determined associated items to any of the different information processing apparatus.

An information processing apparatus for providing a service of introducing, from a predetermined item which is to make a reference, associated items associated with the reference item to one or more different information processing apparatus, comprising:

• association degree collection means for collecting association degrees applied between items by users of the different information processing apparatus and indicative of weights of a relationship between the items;
• and
• introduction means for determining the associated items from the reference item based on a result of the collection by said association degree collection means and introduce the determined associated items to any of the different information processing apparatus.