Patent ID: 7519612
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information processing system for performing data processing on content, comprising a preference-data management means for managing user preferences concerning which types of data processing to perform on said content; a content generating means for generating content before receiving a request for said content by a user, by performing a user-preferred type of data processing on said content; wherein types of said data processing include image-quality improvement in which said content is edited to have preferred quality, and re-encoding that re-encodes said content from one encoding system into another encoding system; a content storage means for storing said content, as original content, and the content generated by said content generating means; a resource management means for managing system resources, and requesting said content generating means to process said content based on available system resources; and user-operation means for selecting content, wherein said preference-data management means learns user-preference information based on a type of data processing performed on a selected content, selected by said user-operation means, said preference-data management means calculates a weight for each type of data processing for each user in accordance with a number of times that each user selects each type of data processing, said content generating means selects a type of data processing for said content based on said weight, each type of the data processing is associated with at least one parameter which is set when each type of the data processing is performed on said content said preference-data management means calculates a weight for said at least one parameter for each user based on a number of times each user selects said at least one parameter, and when performing the type of the data processing on said content, said content generating means selects to use at least one parameter based on the weight of said at least one parameter.