Automatic display method and apparatus for update information, and medium storing program for the method
First Claim
1. An automatic display method for update information comprising the steps of:
- receiving an information transmission request including an address and terminal update information from a client terminal;
reading out server side document information including individual update information for each piece of individual information;
extracting individual information that is updated after said terminal update information by comparing said terminal update information and said individual update information;
adding a display attribute to the extracted individual information; and
editing the individual information to which a display attribute is added and returning the edited individual information to said client terminal as document information for display.
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus are provided that is capable of displaying existence of update information that is optimal to a client terminal for each piece of individual information when information accumulated in a server is browsed by the client terminal in the Internet or the like. Determination on which piece of the individual information has already been read (seen) information in the terminal is made possible by causing each piece of the information to have individual update information as server side document information and comparing the update information with update information in the client terminal side. By adding and returning a display attribute indicating unread (unseen) to the individual information for each client terminal based on determination results, individual update information that is not unified for each client terminal can be easily grasped.
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24 Claims
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1. An automatic display method for update information comprising the steps of:
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receiving an information transmission request including an address and terminal update information from a client terminal;
reading out server side document information including individual update information for each piece of individual information;
extracting individual information that is updated after said terminal update information by comparing said terminal update information and said individual update information;
adding a display attribute to the extracted individual information; and
editing the individual information to which a display attribute is added and returning the edited individual information to said client terminal as document information for display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An information display apparatus comprising:
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a receiving unit receiving an information transmission request including an address and terminal update information from a client terminal;
a document information reading out unit reading out server side document information including individual update information for each piece of individual information;
an individual information extracting unit extracting individual information that is updated after said terminal update information by comparing said terminal update information and said individual update information;
an adding unit adding a display attribute to the extracted individual information; and
a returning unit editing the individual information to which a display attribute is added and returning the edited individual information to said client terminal as document information for display. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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17. A storage medium readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps for displaying content data, the method steps comprising:
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receiving an information transmission request including an address and terminal update information from a client terminal;
reading out server side document information including individual update information for each piece of individual information;
extracting individual information that is updated after said terminal update information by comparing said terminal update information and said individual update information;
adding a display attribute to the extracted individual information; and
editing the individual information to which a display attribute is added and returning the edited individual information to said client terminal as document information for display.
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Specification