Patent ID: 9742936
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a memory to store, for each of a plurality of states of the information processing apparatus, pieces of correspondence information indicating either a correspondence relation between one or more pieces of content identification information respectively identifying one or more contents and time information indicating latest times when the contents are displayed, or a correspondence relation between the one or more pieces of content identification information and frequency information representing display frequencies of the contents; selection processing circuitry configured to select correspondence information corresponding to a current state of the information processing apparatus out of the pieces of correspondence information stored in the memory; determining processing circuitry configured to determine, as display content information that identifies the content to be displayed, a piece of content identification information out of the one or more pieces of content identification information included in the correspondence information selected by the selection processing circuitry, based on the time information or the frequency information that corresponds to the one or more pieces of content identification information included in the correspondence information selected by the selection processing circuitry; and display control processing circuitry configured to perform control to display the content identified by the display content information determined by the determining processing circuitry, wherein: a display order of the one or more contents identified by the one or more pieces of content identification information included in the correspondence information is preliminarily determined, and the correspondence information further includes designation information that designates the content identification information identifying the content to be displayed next out of the one or more pieces of content identification information included in the correspondence information.