Patent ID: 7036074

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling display of database search items, comprising: a database including: an element-data storage table in which has been stored, on a field-by-field basis, element data corresponding to the fields; an item-name table which stipulates, field-by-field, an item name character that corresponds to a search-item name and a field name; and a display-item designation table that stores ordered display-item data corresponding to said item name character for an ordered display on a display unit, the ordered display being determined by a user; a select-command input device for applying a select command for designating the ordered display-item data; a display-item data read-out device for reading out, from the display-item designation table, the ordered display-item data that conforms to the select command applied by said select-command input device; a search-item name read-out device for reading out, from the item-name table, said search-item name to be displayed on the display unit, said search-item name being designated by the ordered display-item data read out by said display-item data read-out device; a display control unit for displaying said search-item name, which has been read out by said search-item name read-out device, on the display unit as a database search-item name; and a customizing tool for changing search items displayed on a search page by inputting at least one of: change-targeted item-name data for changing a search-item name in the item-name table; data representing an additional search-item name for adding a search-item name to the item-name table; display-item change data for changing a display-item in the display-item designation table; and display-item add-on data for adding on a display-item to the display item designation table.