Program-schedule-generating device, program-data-sharing system, method of generating program schedule, and computer program

摘要

To share program data between a plurality of information providers, between which providers there exists a predetermined association, whereby a program schedule for each of the information providers can be acquired.;The program-schedule-generating device stores program data provided by a plurality of information providers. The program-schedule-generating device specifies a subject user, who is an information provider to which program schedule data is to be transmitted, and specifies another information provider having a predetermined association with the user. The predetermined association referred to here is, for example, a condition in which users are members of an identical service (such as an SNS). The program-schedule-generating device extracts the program data provided by the information providers, generates program schedule data based on the program data, and transmits the program schedule data.

主权项

1. A program-schedule-generating device comprising:
a processor to: acquire a plurality of first program data items provided by a plurality of users, the plurality of first program data items describing information of a program already broadcast by a broadcasting station on a particular date and time or scheduled to be broadcast by a broadcasting station on a particular date and time, the plurality of first program data items including at least information used for identifying the program; acquire a second program data item provided by a data-providing company in a predetermined format in which time slots are provided for each broadcast station; extract from the acquired plurality of first program data items, a first program data item provided by a first user, and a first program data item provided by a second user associated with the first user; and generate, before the program is broadcast, a first program schedule by converting the extracted first program data item provided by the first user and the first program data item provided by the second user to conform to the format and writing the converted first program data items in a blank program slot of the first program schedule, wherein, after the program is broadcast, a second program schedule based on the extracted first program data items that are provided by the first user and the second user after the program is broadcast, the second program schedule forming a second program schedule for the first user, the second program schedule for the first user generated after the program is broadcast includes the first program data items provided after the program is broadcast in a blank program slot of the second program schedule for the first user, and does not include the first program data items provided before the program is broadcast.