Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation

Tetsuya Gotou

Noriaki Koyama

Masaru Suzuki

Miwako Doi

Kenta Cho

Chikashi Sugiura

Tetsuro Muranaga

Hideki Tsutsui

Myungsook Ko

Eiichi Sunagawa

Masahiro Sakai

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Junya Sasaki

Takahiro Nishizawa

An interactive processing device according to an embodiment acquires one/more items' information for predetermined operation through interaction with a user, and includes one/more itemized-processing-units and an interaction-control-unit. The itemized-processing-units corresponds to the items. The interaction-control-unit controls the interaction collaboratively with the itemized-processing-units. The interaction-control-unit transmits user-input information to each itemized-processing-unit. Each itemized-processing-unit extracts a candidate for to-be-acquired information and transmits the candidate to the interaction-control-unit with likelihood information of being the to-be-acquired information. The interaction-control-unit determines a candidate having first-threshold-satisfying likelihood as information of an item corresponding to the candidate-transmitted itemized-processing-unit. When undetermined information item exists, the interaction-control-unit outputs inquiry for the item information. Each itemized-processing-unit is implemented by a general-purpose processor given corresponding-item name and an operation-parameter determining each itemized-processing-unit's operation. The general-purpose processing unit has a basic rule for extracting the candidate and calculating the likelihood using interactive knowledge corresponding to the to-be-acquired information type.

Interactive processing device and interactive processing system

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a preference information obtainer that obtains preference information indicating preferences of a target user to which recommendation is to be made, the preferences ranging over a plurality of genres. The information processing apparatus includes a recommendation item determiner that determines, using the preference information of the target user and recommendation candidate information about a plurality of recommendation candidates ranging over a plurality of genres, a recommendation item to be recommended to the target user from the plurality of recommendation candidates, the recommendation candidate information being stored in an accessible storage apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium

A data distribution apparatus includes a data file configured to store video data and advertisement data to be provided to a receiving terminal of a Video on Demand service; a video distributing unit configured to distribute video data in accordance with a distribution request from the receiving terminal; a video presentation confirming unit configured to confirm a presentation state of the video data at the receiving terminal; an advertisement distribution determining unit configured to determine distribution of advertisement data to the receiving terminal when it is confirmed that the video data to be distributed by the video distributing unit is being called; and an advertisement distributing unit configured to distribute the advertisement data.

Apparatus, computer program product, and method for data distribution

The present invention relates to a recommending system that recommends content so as to keep constant network traffic between a user terminal and a server. The recommending system includes a user terminal, a content server that transmits content prestored in a storage device to the user terminal, and a recommending server that transmits recommendation data, which are connected via a network. The recommending server includes a communications unit that transmits the recommendation data to the user terminal, the recommendation data containing an identifier of provided content and a time, at which the content server starts providing the content to the user terminal, in correspondence with the identifier of the provided content. The user terminal includes a download unit that transmits the content request containing the identifier of the provided content to the content server at the time in correspondence with the identifier of the provided content in the recommendation data.

Recommending system, recommending server, content recommending method, and recommending program product

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Gotou