Patent ID: 8887201

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring means for acquiring focused content information that relates to a predetermined content and comprises at least a genre and a title of the predetermined content, wherein the predetermined content is selected by a user via a cursor that interacts with a program guide showing a plurality of predetermined content items, the cursor being used to select one of the predetermined content items; a retrieving means for using content information about a plurality of other content, different from the predetermined content, to retrieve a content having a high degree of relation to the focused content information acquired from the predetermined content; a specification information generating means for generating specification information that specifies the resulted content of retrieval based on the result of retrieval done by the retrieving means; and a display control means for simultaneously displaying at least one of the genre and the title of the predetermined content of the focused content information and the specification information, wherein the specification information is overlaid on the program guide and contains recommendations for a plurality of content options.