US 7,587,673 B2
Information processing apparatus, method and program
Tatsuya Narahara, Kanagawa (Japan); Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Kanagawa (Japan); Toshiharu Yabe, Tokyo (Japan); Kenichiro Kobayashi, Kanagawa (Japan); Tsutomu Seki, Chiba (Japan); and Hideaki Okamura, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/488,097.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-208840 (JP), filed on Jul. 19, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0033006 A1, Feb. 08, 2007
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 715—716  [715/210; 715/722; 715/723] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a processor;
a first selection unit configured to extract and rank a keyword from program information of a predetermined program selected from at least one of a program being received and a recorded program, and to select article information having a highest ranking and which includes the same keyword as the extracted keyword among article information described in a Resource Description Framework Site Summary (RSS) format;
a display controller configured to display the article information having the highest ranking selected by the first selection section simultaneously with an image of the predetermined program;
a first setting unit configured to extract a keyword from article information described in RSS format, and to rank the extracted keyword;
a second setting unit configured to acquire at least one of program information on a program being received and program information on a recorded program, and to rank the program which includes, in the program information, the same keyword as a keyword having a predetermined ranking among the keywords having rankings provided by the first setting unit; and
a second selection unit configured to select the predetermined program on the basis of the rankings given by the second setting unit.