Patent ID: 9471714
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A display apparatus comprising: at least one memory operable to store program instructions; and at least one processor operable to access said memory, read said program instructions, and operate according to said program instructions, said program instructions including: character string storing instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to store a character string which is set in advance; display data obtaining instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to obtain display data; link information extracting instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to extract link information from the obtained display data; partial link character string generating instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to generate a partial link character string from the extracted link information only when an accessed web page corresponding to the character string is determined to have importance, said determination of importance including a test of at least one of whether the website supports encryptions, supports Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layers (HTTPS), requires a password, requires authentication, and requires identification information; similarity calculating instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to calculate similarity of the character string and the partial link character string; similarity determining instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine whether the link information is similar link information or not on the basis of the calculated similarity; display position specifying instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to specify a display position where the extracted link information is displayed, when the link information is determined to be the similar link information in the determining instructions; display area specifying instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to specify a display area for displaying existence information indicating existence of the similar link information on the basis of the specified display position; and existence information display instructions that cause at least one of said at least one processor to display the existence information indicating existence of the similar link information in the specified display area.