Patent ID: 8830796

Claim:
An information processing apparatus communicating with a server that allows browsing for information to be browsed, the information to be browsed being transmitted from each external device of at least one third party, the apparatus comprising: a snooze button; an alarm stop button; an alarm processing unit configured to: output an alarm at an alarm time at which a user is scheduled to get-up; perform, when manipulating the snooze button while the alarm is being sounded, a snooze operation in which the alarm is resumed after suspending the alarm for a predetermined time period; stop the alarm when manipulating the alarm stop button while the alarm is being sounded; and stop a resumption of the alarm after suspending the alarm when manipulating the alarm stop button during the suspension of the alarm; a computing unit configured to calculate, when stopping the alarm or stopping resumption of the alarm at the alarm processing unit, a get-up index that expresses a degree that indicates an amount of time that it takes a user to get up based on a number of times to manipulate the snooze button from a point in time when starting the alarm at the alarm time to a point in time when manipulating the alarm stop button; and a registration unit configured to register as the information to be browsed, in the server, both a comment about getting up and the get-up index calculated at the computing unit.