Content usage managing apparatus, content usage managing method and program

A content usage managing method to perform content usage management with a computer, comprising the steps of:

• storing a first relation between a POP and one or more contents included in the POP and a second relation between two or more POPs linked via a content in a package (content group) which includes the two or more POPs;
• wherein each POP of the two or more POPs is a content subgroup;
• randomly selecting a first content out of contents included in a randomly selected first POP of the package;
• specifying a first webpage including the first content;
• and
• examining whether the first POP and one or more contents included in the first POP satisfy the first relation and examining whether the first POP and a second POP linked to the first POP via a second content satisfy the second relation,
• wherein for examining whether the first relation is satisfied the examining step comprises obtaining information of the first POP and identification information of the contents included in the first POP and examining whether all of the identification information for the contents included in the first POP is included in a predetermined webpage of the first webpage or one or more web pages linked to the first webpage, and
• wherein for examining whether the second relation is satisfied the examining step comprises obtaining information of the first POP and the second POP and examining whether identification information of the second content is included in the first webpage, a second webpage to be displayed along with the first webpage, or a third webpage capable of being transferred with the first webpage.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a computer-readable program for causing a computer to execute a content usage managing method which comprises the steps of:

• storing a first relation between a POP and one or more contents included in the POP and a second relation between two or more POPs linked via a content in a package which includes the two or more POPs;
• wherein each POP of the two or more POPs is a content subgroup;
• randomly selecting a first content out of contents included in a randomly selected first POP of the package;
• specifying a first webpage including the first content;
• and
• examining whether the first POP and one or more contents included in the first POP satisfy the first relation and examining whether the first POP and a second POP linked to the first POP via a second content satisfy the second relation,
• wherein for examining whether the first relation is satisfied the examining step comprises obtaining information of the first POP and identification information of the contents included in the first POP and examining whether all of the identification information for the contents included in the first POP is included in a predetermined webpage of the first webpage or one or more web pages linked to the first webpage, and
• wherein for examining whether the second relation is satisfied the examining step comprises obtaining information of the first POP and the second POP and examining whether identification information of the second content is included in the first webpage, a second webpage to be displayed along with the first webpage, or a third webpage capable of being transferred with the first webpage.