Patent ID: 8683335

Claim:
An information processing device, comprising: a processor; a contents storage unit that stores a plurality of audio or video content; a storage unit that stores a table with artist identifiers for each of the plurality of audio or video contents and plural categories representing a grouping of artist identifiers, wherein the artist identifiers and the plural categories are correlated to each other in the table, and the categories including user generated categories and categories generated by the processor from metadata of the audio or video contents, the metadata including at least one of a name of an album in which said audio or video contents is included, a name of an artist playing or providing content, a genre of the content, a music tone, rhythm, or ranking value; a first display control unit that provides a graphical user interface that displays a correlation between a selected artist identifier, which identifies an audio or video content that is stored in the contents storage unit, and another related artist identifier within a same category, of the plural categories, as the selected artist identifier, said related artist identifier identifies an audio or video content that is not stored in the contents storage unit, wherein the processor automatically generates and transmits a request for a data search to a remote computer communicatively coupled through a communications network to the information processing device for information regarding the related artist identifier in response to a selection of the related artist identifier on the graphical user interface; and a communication interface that receives, from the remote computer, a URL that when accessed with the processor, provides another graphical user interface that displays search results of the data search and a link to purchase the audio or video content corresponding to the related artist identifier.