Patent ID: 7653728

Claim:
An audio server, comprising: an audio item data base which stores a plurality of items of audio contents; reception means which receives, from an information processing device that is connected to said server via a network, a request for downloading an item of audio contents stored in said audio item data base; download means which downloads, to said information processing device, an item of audio contents corresponding to said download request which has been received by said reception means; evaluation request means which, when an information processing device is connected to said server via said network, requests said connected information processing device to notify evaluations for items of audio contents which said information processing device has downloaded in the past; summarization means which, when an evaluation for some item of audio contents has arrived from an information processing device that has been requested by said evaluation request notification means to provide notification of evaluations for items of audio contents, summarizes, using the evaluation obtained this time, evaluations for that item of audio contents; and summarized results notification means which notifies the results of summarization by said summarization means to the information processing device which provided said evaluation of that item of audio contents this time; wherein said evaluation request means is a means which requests said information processing device to notify evaluations of items of audio contents for which, after download, a period of time has elapsed which is greater than or equal to a first time interval set in advance.