Patent ID: 9147434
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a recording information acquisition unit configured to acquire recording information of a plurality of recorded contents having programs recorded therein and stored in the information processing apparatus or in any of a plurality of recording apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus through a network; a content classification unit configured to classify the recorded contents into groups based on the recording information acquired by the recording information acquisition unit; a group name determination unit configured to determine, for each of the groups of the recorded contents classified by the content classification unit, a title of the group; a list displaying unit configured to display the group names determined by the group name determination unit in a list on a user interface without distinguishing the apparatus in which the recorded contents are stored, wherein the content classification unit analyzes the program names of a plurality of programs included in the recording information acquired by the recording information acquisition unit to specify programs whose program names include phrases related to each other and classifies, for each of the recorded contents in which the specified program is recorded, the recorded contents into a group without distinguishing the apparatus in which the recorded contents are stored; and a phrase determination database configured to store character strings to be excluded from a program name upon the determination of the phrases and separates to be used as punctuations between plurality of phrases existing in the program name; the content classification unit excluding character strings to be excluded which are stored in the phrase determination database from the program names of the programs included in the recording information acquired by the recording information acquisition unit to produce character strings punctuated by the separates as phrases.