US 9,319,718 B2Granted

Content server, content providing system, content providing method and computer program

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsYoshinori Kurata, Masahiro Morita, Shouichi Doi

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Abstract

There is provided a content server which stores a content and provides the stored content to a terminal including: a content information storage portion which stores information relating to the content to be provided to the terminal; a terminal history storage portion which stores the history of each of the terminal; a terminal control information generating portion which generates control information to the terminal to which the content is to be provided based on information stored in the content information storage portion and the terminal history storage portion; and a terminal control portion which controls the content to be provided to the terminal based on the information generated by the terminal control information generating portion.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry that:

receives content information relating to content to be provided to two terminals;
receives terminal history information including operation history of the two terminals;
receives user preference information including viewing history of the content for the two terminals;
calculates, for each of the two terminals, a score which serves as a criterion for providing a content list to the two terminals, wherein the score includes a content deletion possibility score of the content to be deleted from the two terminals, the content deletion possibility score being calculated based on:
a user of the terminal deleted a content from the terminal, the user of the terminal set a content to be stored, and the user of the terminal is on viewing a content;
provides the content list to the two terminals based on the content information, the terminal history information and the user preference information, wherein the provided content list to the two terminals includes different content corresponding to the terminal history information of the two terminals;
and
serves the content in the content list to the two terminals.

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Facts

Application: 12/248,847Filed 9 Oct 2008
Priority: JP P2007-29979519 Nov 2007
Published: US 2009/0132546 A121 May 2009
Granted: 19 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04N 21/23
Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof: processing of content or additional data;…
H04N 21/21
Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof: server components or server architectures
H04N 21/25
Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof: management operations performed by the server…
H04N 21/252
Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies: processing of multiple end-users' preferences…