Patent ID: 8719340

Claim:
An information processing device, comprising: a communicating unit communicating with one or more content servers through a network; an information obtaining unit obtaining content type information indicating a type of content, which may be provided by each of the one or more content servers, from each of the one or more content servers using communication by the communicating unit; and a user interface unit, when an attribute information indicating a classification of a type of content in accordance with which content is grouped is a same attribute information indicated by the content type information provided from each of a plurality of content servers of the one or more content servers, allowing a user to select the content type corresponding to the same attribute information as a desired content type out of the content type indicated by the content type information and allowing selection by the user, from a display identifying each of the plurality of the content servers displayed responsive to the selection of the selected content type, of a content server from the plurality of content servers, each of the plurality of content servers providing at least one content belonging to the selected content type, to provide the at least one content, wherein the content type information is information identifying a type of a container included in a content directory of each of the one or more content servers and determined to satisfy a predetermined condition in which the container is of a predetermined tier in the content directory wherein the information processing device further comprises a storage unit storing the content type information, the information obtaining unit automatically obtains the content type information from each of the one or more content servers and allows the storage unit to store the content type information; and wherein the content type information is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition when the container is of a tier not higher than a second predetermined tier in the content directory.