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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Rakuten, Inc., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Hisanori Yamahara, Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plurality of items of data, each having a plurality of items of attribute information, are sorted in order of most comprehensively satisfying conditions relating to the plurality of items of attribute information. An information providing server includes a single sorting unit that calculates, for each of the plurality of items of data having the plurality of items of attribute information and included in a data group, an evaluation value for sorting the data group based on a sort key designated for one of the plurality of items of attribute information. The information providing server includes a multiple sorting unit that sorts the data group based on a plurality of multiple evaluation values that are calculated, for respective items of data included in the data group, based on the evaluation values and the respective weights of the plurality of sort keys, each of the evaluation values being calculated.