Information Selecting Method, Information Selecting Device and So On

A selection method of program information for selecting an arbitrary program information piece out of a plurality of program information pieces, comprising steps of:

• decomposing a plurality of selection orders connecting program information pieces as many as a predetermined number in chain out of a selection order of a plurality of program information pieces selected in past times;
• extracting a selection candidate program piece selected next to a predetermined information piece on the basis of the selection order starting from the predetermined program information piece in the plurality of selection orders thus decomposed;
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• determining one of the selection candidate program information piece thus selected as program information piece selected next to the predetermined program information piece at a time of continuously selecting the program information piece selected next to the predetermined program information.

An information selection apparatus for continuously selecting an arbitrary program information piece out of a plurality of program information pieces, comprising:

• a decomposition means for decomposing a plurality of selection orders connecting program information pieces as many as a predetermined number in chain out of a selection order of a plurality of program information pieces selected in past times;
• an extraction means for extracting a selection candidate program piece selected next to a predetermined information piece on the basis of the selection order starting from the predetermined program information piece in the plurality of selection orders thus decomposed;
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• a determination means for determining one of the selection candidates program information pieces thus selected as a program information piece selected next to the predetermined program information piece at a time of continuously selecting one of the selection candidate program information pieces thus extracted.