Patent ID: 7584214

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for supporting operations on program contents distributed at scheduled times, the information processing apparatus comprising: a program information managing section which manages information on program contents; a starting program setting section which sets a program at which the operations are started, wherein the starting program is set based on a user supplying a control signal for selecting, as the starting program, program content being audiovisually rendered for being watched and listened to by the user; a starting-program-related information generating section which retrieves information on programs in all program states, and extracts programs related to the starting program to generate a starting-program-related information page using information identifying the starting program and in response to the supply of the control signal; and a detailed operation screen presenting section which presents a detailed operation screen in response to the selection of a program related to the starting program on the starting-program-related information page, the detailed operation screen including a method of operation that can be used for the related program depending on the program state of the related program.