Patent ID: 9672275
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A recommendation apparatus that recommends contents to a recommendation target user that is a current user of the recommendation apparatus, comprising: a processor and memory; a recommendation unit; a content management unit; and a relationship storage unit, wherein a group of recommendation candidate contents is obtained from the content management unit, the group of recommendation candidate contents being candidates to be used by the recommendation target user, wherein a relationship is detected between a user of a similar work case similar to work by the recommendation target user and used contents of the similar work case obtained from the content management unit, wherein the used contents of the similar work case include contents other than the recommendation candidate contents, and the recommendation candidate contents include contents other than the used contents of the similar work case, wherein the relationship between a user and contents is held in the relationship storage unit, wherein the recommendation unit recommends recommendation candidate contents having the detected relationship with the recommendation target user by priority from among the group of recommendation candidate contents excluding the used contents of the similar work case, wherein at least one of the units is implemented upon execution of instructions stored in the memory by the processor.