Patent ID: 9357020
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An information source selection system comprising: a unit configured to acquire addition frequency information, which indicates a frequency at which information is added per predetermined time period to each of a plurality of recommendation candidate information sources among a plurality of information sources provided on a communication network, where the added information is not a result of a particular user's activities; a unit configured to acquire access frequency information that indicates a frequency at which the particular user accesses one or more of the plurality of information sources; a unit configured to select one or more of the recommendation candidate information sources that match the particular user based on the addition frequency information of each of the recommendation candidate information sources and the access frequency information of the particular user; and a unit configured to transmit identifiers of the selected one or more recommendation candidate information sources to the particular user over the communication network.