Patent ID: 8347332

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a display section which is capable of displaying information; an input section which accepts, from a user, an input of content tuning information which is information for identifying a provider that is a providing source of content; a storage section which stores one or a plurality of pieces of viewed content identification information each of which is information for identifying each of one or a plurality of pieces of content that has been watched and listened to by the user; a content-related information control section which transmits the one or plurality of pieces of viewed content identification information to another device and receives, from such other device, content-related information related to content having a relationship with respect to viewed content identified by each of the transmitted one or plurality of pieces of viewed content identification information; and a display control section which causes the display section to display an image based on image data included in each of one or a plurality of pieces of content-related information corresponding to the content tuning information the input of which is accepted by the input section from among respective pieces of content-related information that the content-related information control section have received, wherein the content-related information control section further receives a relation attribute from such other device, the relation attribute indicating a relationship between the content having a relationship with respect to the viewed content and the viewed content and being correlated with each of the one or plurality of pieces of content-related information, wherein the content-related information control section further receives a relation point from such other device, the relation point indicating a degree of relationship for the relation attribute between the content having a relationship with respect to the viewed content and the viewed content and being correlated with each of the one or plurality of pieces of content-related information, wherein the display control section decides a priority order of the one or plurality of pieces content-related information based on the degree of respective relation points, and causes the display section to display a plurality of images one at a time based on image data included in each of the one or plurality of pieces of content-related information according to the decided priority order.