Patent ID: 8952988
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus, said apparatus comprising a processing component and a storage device having a program stored therein which when executed causes the processing component to perform as: a first display control unit configured to control display of an image of a content by displaying a plurality of article information pieces in a plurality of regions laid out in advance in the image, the article information pieces each being constituted of one of a character string and a picture image, and the article information pieces and the regions being correlated with each other; an operation region specifying unit configured to specify on which of the regions in the image an operation is performed; and a second display control unit configured to control display of an additional image by displaying the article information pieces in a predetermined region in the image, the article information pieces excepting the article information piece correlated with the specified region, in which each article information piece represents a news article, and performance of the operation provides an indication that a user read a respective news article, and in which the additional image includes (i) a news article or articles which were unread by the user and (ii) ranking information which indicates a ranking of at least some of the unread news articles.