Patent ID: 8244096
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G06Q,G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk device comprising: a reproduction component configured to reproduce contents stored in optical disks that are loaded in the optical disk device; a determination component configured to determine genres of the contents while the reproduction component reproduces the contents; a memory component configured to store a first table that associates each of the genres that have been determined by the determination component with a reproduction counter that indicates a number of times the reproduction component reproduced the contents that belong to each of the genres; a communication component configured to communicate with a server via a network the communication component being further configured to download from the server advertising data corresponding to one of the genres stored in the first table, the one of the genres being selected based on the reproduction counter of the first table; and an output component configured to output an advertisement based on the advertising data that is downloaded by the communication component, the memory component being further configured to store a second table that associates each of content titles of the contents with a genre of each of the contents, the determination component being further configured to acquire a content title of a content from the optical disk when the reproduction component reproduces the content, the determination component being further configured to determine the genre of the content corresponding to the content title that is acquired from the optical disk based on the second table.