Patent ID: 8924404

Claim:
An information processing device comprising: storage management means configured to store and manage a plurality of subsidiary content files, each of the plurality of subsidiary content files having been created by performing editing processing in which at least two primary content files are secondarily used as editing material, each of the plurality of subsidiary content files including playback control information serving as information for reproducing a corresponding subsidiary content file, the playback control information for the corresponding subsidiary content file comprising information instructing playback of content data of at least two source primary content files that served as the editing material when the corresponding subsidiary content file was created; information obtaining means configured to obtain held primary content information, the held primary content information identifying at least two held primary content files that a recommendation-receiving user was previously granted the right to play; subsidiary content selecting means configured to select at least two recommended subsidiary content files from the plurality subsidiary content files managed by said storage management means based at least in part on the held primary content information; recommendation order setting means configured to set a basic recommendation order among the at least two recommended subsidiary content files, based on a usage state of the at least two held primary content files that served as the editing material for the at least two recommended subsidiary content files selected by the subsidiary content selecting means, and first coefficient setting means configured to set a first weighting coefficient for each of the at least two recommended subsidiary content files to be used by the recommendation order setting means, based on individual content evaluation information indicating an evaluation, by the recommendation-receiving user, of the at least two held primary content files that served as the editing material used for one or more of the at least two recommended subsidiary content files; wherein the subsidiary content selecting means is configured to select one or more files for which the playback control information indicates that at least a part of one of the at least two held primary content files, which the held primary content information indicates the recommendation-receiving user was previously granted the right to play, served as the editing material.