Patent ID: 8145034

Claim:
A contents replay apparatus, comprising: acquisition means for: acquiring first metadata corresponding to contents data of a first kind, and acquiring an instruction from a user regarding respective weights of fields of the first metadata; search means for: conducting a search of second metadata of contents data of a second kind, the search being based on a value of a field of the first metadata, and if the search hits in the second metadata of one of the contents data of the second kind, identifying the one of the contents data of the second kind as being related to the contents data of the first kind, and incrementing a score of the one of the contents data of the second kind by the respective weight assigned by the user to the field of the first metadata upon which the search is based; first replay means for replaying the first kind of contents data; second replay means for replaying the second kind of contents data; and control means for controlling the first replay means and the second replay means so that the first and second kinds of contents data to be replayed are replayed in relation to each other.