Patent ID: 8823713
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a character string display unit that displays content information including a character string; a memory unit that stores a character type-function correspondence information in which executable functions and a character type of a character that is a subject to which the corresponding function is executed are associated with each other; a character selection unit that selects a desired character string in the content information displayed on the character string display unit; a character type acquiring unit that acquires a character type of a first character of the selected character string; a function acquiring unit that acquires executable functions associated with the acquired character type from the character type-function correspondence information, after a character string is selected by the character selection unit; a valid character string decision unit that decides a valid character string, to which the function is executed, from the selected character string selected by the character selection unit, for each of the acquired executable functions; and a function selection unit that selects the executable function from the acquired executable functions.