Patent ID: 6593946
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of controlling a terminal device which receives display information from a host device and displays the display information on a screen, said method comprising:displaying newest display information supplied from the host device in a predetermined area of the screen; displaying previous display information in a remaining area of the screen, the previous display information having been supplied from the host device and once displayed as the newest display information in said predetermined area, the previous display information including a series of exchanges of data supplied from the terminal device to the host device and data supplied from the host device to the terminal device, and being updated when a command for rewriting of an entire screen of the newest display information is received from the host device, wherein the remaining area includes a plurality of subareas, each of which is dedicated for displaying of the previous display information; selecting display information; displaying the selected display information in one of the subareas; deleting, from the screen, oldest display information among the previous display information except for the selected display information when the newest display information arrives from the host device; arranging the subareas in a chronological order, except for said one of the subareas; and shifting the previous display information in the chronologically arranged subareas from one subarea to a next subarea toward a chronologically older direction each time the newest display information arrives from the host device.