Patent ID: 8024754

Claim:
A content processing device for managing a reproduction schedule specifying time slots in which plural pieces of content including content reproducible at any time are reproduced, each piece of content being associated with content information indicating an attribute of the piece of content, to add new additional content to the reproduction schedule on the basis of reference content scheduled in advance in a time slot in the reproduction schedule, the device comprising: additional content identifying means for identifying, as the additional content, content associated with content information which meets conditions determined on the basis of content information of the reference content; and time slot determining means for arbitrarily determining, based on time slot determining procedure information based on which a time slot is determined for the additional content related to the reference content, a time slot for the additional content identified by the additional content identifying means, wherein the time slot determining means determines a time slot for the additional content thus identified based only on the time slot determining procedure information, among time slots in which other contents have already been scheduled in the reproduction schedule and vacant time slots which have not yet been scheduled with content, each piece of content is associated with preference indicating a user preference for the content; and the time slot determining procedure information is information instructing to determine,. as the time slot of the additional content, a time slot of content, scheduled in the reproduction schedule, which is associated with preference less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.