Patent ID: 7373318
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: A23L,G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information recommendation apparatus for a service provider and a plurality of users comprising: a content database at the service provider for storing a plurality of contents formed of objective plural pieces of data having a plurality of ingredients, each set of ingredients operated on by a differing process; content registration means of the service provider receiving the registration of new contents from one of the plurality of users and registering said new contents in said content database, the new contents formed of objective plural pieces of data having a plurality of ingredients, each set of ingredients operated on by a differing process; condition input means of inputting conditions from the one user to the service provider represented by predetermined items and attribute values; recommendation means of the service provider selecting and recommending contents of said plurality of contents to the one user coincident with or similar to said input conditions by said condition input means from said content database; access history control means of determining the number of recommendation times and recommendation information of contents recommended by said recommendation means on the basis of the number of times the one user carried out content registration by using said content registration means, and output means of outputting said recommended contents to the one user determined by said access history control means from the service provider, wherein the more the one user is incentives to register contents, the more recommended contents are outputted as rewards to the one user to search through and consider, wherein the one user's received recommended contents are in number at least greater than the number of times the one user carried out content registration, wherein said condition input means is equipped with condition extraction means of extracting input conditions on the basis of the new contents having been registered in the past by the one user who receives recommendation, and wherein the number of recommendation times and recommendation information of contents recommended by said recommendation means is determined solely on the basis of the number of times the one user carried out content registration by using said content restoration means.