Patent ID: 8418193

Claim:
An information terminal comprising: biometric information obtaining means configured to obtain biometric information expressing biometric responses exhibited by a user during content playback; metadata obtaining means configured to obtain metadata of each content of which biometric information is obtained by said biometric information obtaining means; identifying means configured to identify attributes linked to the biometric information within attributes included in the metadata obtained by said metadata obtaining means and identify, in the case of content wherein identified attribute values differ but the user exhibits similar biometric responses during playback, the different attribute value linked to the biometric information; wherein the identified different attribute value is set as a value not to be distinguished; user profile managing means configured to merge information relating to the value which is identified by said identifying means and which is not to be distinguished, from information included in a user profile, to reconfigure the user profile; recommended content identifying means configured to identify recommended content based on the user profile reconfigured by said user profile managing means; and recommending means configured to present the recommended content information identified by said recommended content identifying means to the user.