Patent ID: 9292596
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information processing device comprising: a processor and memory with instructions configured to perform the following units: a history storage unit configured to store a history of display operations on a display unit performed by a user on a first electronic file; an operation input unit configured to input display operations performed by the user on the first electronic file into the stored history; a calculating unit configured to calculate, using a plurality of calculating methods, a plurality of degrees of relevance of a second electronic file to the first electronic file based on the history stored in the history storage unit; a synthesizing unit configured to calculate a synthesized degree of relevance by synthesizing the plurality of degrees of relevance of the second electronic file to the first electronic file; and the display unit configured to display an input region for inputting display operations on the first electronic file, and to automatically display the second electronic file when the synthesized degree of relevance of the second electronic file to the first electronic file exceeds a predetermined threshold; wherein the display unit is further configured to display a plurality of superimposable windows corresponding to a plurality of electronic files inputted by a display operation, and wherein a first calculating method of the plurality of calculating methods of the calculating unit comprises calculating a degree of relevance between the first electronic file and the second electronic file based on simultaneous display times in which windows corresponding to the first electronic file and the second electronic file were displayed by a user operation in a foreground window during simultaneous display.