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[Patent application number] 20130332470 [Published] 12-12-2013 [Description] 
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a totaling unit gathering information indicating a client type and taste information indicating an evaluation to content and totaling the evaluation to content according to the client type, a vector generating unit generating at least a user taste vector expressing a characteristic of content liked by the user and a client type-based vector expressing the characteristic of content liked by the user on a client-type basis, and a recommending unit recommending content by using at least one of the vectors generated by the vector generating unit and a characteristic vector expressing a characteristic of content and, recommending content to a first-time user who makes use of the service for a first time by using the client type-based vector corresponding to the client type of a client used by the first-time user.
Saito, Saitama - Patent applications