Patent ID: 7676496
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A content management system for managing contents stored in multiple devices, comprising: a user input device for allowing a user to specify a content search mode and a content search condition; a display device for displaying a screen format in a two- or three-dimensional display form; a processor for generating the screen format, searching the devices for content according to the content search mode and the content search condition, and controlling so that information associated with the content retrieved is displayed by mapping the information on the screen format, wherein a distance from a center of the screen format to the mapped information and the size of the mapped information indicates a matching degree of the content search condition with the content associated with the information, and the processor maps the information three-dimensionally based on the matching degree by displaying the screen format three-dimensionally, and wherein the processor defines at least one of a fitness for the content search condition and a matching degree with a user's preference, based on at least one of a distance from the center of the screen format to the mapped information, a distance between other mapped information, a direction from the center of the screen format, and a size of the screen format.