Patent ID: 8645560

Claim:
A content providing system comprising: content providing means for providing content items via a network; content output means for outputting the provided content items; specifying/selecting means for specifying, among the output content items output by the content output means, shared content that is content to be shared by a plurality of users and for selecting predetermined shared content; means for determining a number of times the shared content has been requested to be published by a user; and shared content providing means for obtaining the specified content as the shared content from the content providing means and for providing the shared content, selected based on selecting information for selecting the obtained shared content, via the network to the content output means which selected the shared content based on the selecting information, the shared content providing means providing the shared content if the number of times the shared content has been requested to be published exceeds a threshold, the selecting information including channel information that the content output means is receiving at that time and current date and time information.