Patent ID: 8073878
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method to generate linkage indicative data for a linkage indicative diagram that represents a linkage between a plurality of information resources being interrelated with each other, in a printing apparatus, comprising: collecting a plurality of primary linkage information respectively identifying only a plurality of information resources that, while being displayed, have been instructed to be printed by a user, and subsidiary linkage information included in each of the plurality of information resources, the subsidiary linkage information identifying a subsidiary information resource; storing the collected subsidiary linkage information in association with corresponding one of the plurality of primary linkage information in a storage; determining the linkage between the plurality of information resources, one of the plurality of information resources being linked to another of the plurality of information resources if the primary linkage information of the one of the plurality of information resources is included in the subsidiary linkage information associated with another of the plurality of primary linkage information; and creating linkage indicative data to represent a linkage indicative diagram that represents the linkage between only a plurality of information resources that have been instructed to be printed based on the linkage determined by the determining.