Information processing device, category displaying method, program, and information storage medium
AssigneeRakuten, Inc.
InventorTakashi Umeda
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Abstract
Users are enabled to select a category with more ease than in the past. An information processing device estimates, for a target category that is one of a plurality of categories which have a tree structure including a plurality of hierarchy levels and to each of which one or more objects belong, whether a user is knowledgeable about categories below the target category, based on an input from the user, and controls whether or not display means displays the categories below the target category, based on whether or not the user is estimated as being knowledgeable about the categories below the target category.
Claims24
An information processing device, comprising:
- estimation means for estimating, for a target category that is one of a plurality of categories which have a tree structure comprising a plurality of hierarchy levels and to each of which one or more objects belong, a user's degree of familiarity with categories below the target category, based on an input from the user;
- and
- display control means for controlling whether or not display means displays the categories below the target category, based on a result of estimation made by the estimation means.
A category displaying method, comprising the steps of:
- estimating, for a target category that is one of a plurality of categories which have a tree structure comprising a plurality of hierarchy levels and to each of which one or more objects belong, a user's degree of familiarity with categories below the target category, based on an input from the user;
- and
- controlling whether or not display means displays the categories below the target category, based on the user's degree of familiarity estimated based on the input from the user.
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A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having stored thereon a program for controlling a computer so that the computer functions as:
- estimation means for estimating, for a target category that is one of a plurality of categories which have a tree structure comprising a plurality of hierarchy levels and to each of which one or more objects belong, a user's degree of familiarity with categories below the target category, based on an input from the user;
- and
- display control means for controlling whether or not display means displays the categories below the target category, based on a result of the estimation made by the estimation means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.