Patent ID: 7277894

Claim:
A control system comprising a control apparatus and an information processing apparatus, wherein the control apparatus comprises: receiving means for receiving electronic program guide information transmitted from the information processing apparatus; storage means for storing the electronic program guide information received by the receiving means; acquisition means for, on the basis of the electronic program guide information stored in the storage means, acquiring supplemental information which is associated with a program processed by the information processing apparatus and which indicates a feature of the program; calculation means for calculating an occurrence count of each item in the supplemental information as a function of a weighting factor of each item, wherein the weighting factor is dependent upon a timing of user actions; selection means for selecting a particular program on the basis of the supplemental information and the occurrence count of each item in the supplemental information; management means for managing the occurrence count of each item in the supplemental information, wherein the selection means selects a program regarded by the management means as having a high occurrence count; and control means for controlling the information processing apparatus so as to record or play back the program selected by the selection means; and the information processing apparatus comprises: transmission means for transmitting the electronic program guide information to the control apparatus; and record/playback means for recording or playing back the program under the control of the control apparatus.