Patent ID: 7257573

Claim:
An information display apparatus, comprising: an obtaining unit operable to obtain, from one or more web servers connected to a network, a plurality of pieces of web data, each piece of web data composing either a portion of or a whole web page; a reception unit operable to receive, from a user, an instruction for specifying information to be extracted from each of the obtained pieces of web data, the instruction showing (i) a predetermined character string that is a display item in a list and that is in association with the information to be extracted, (ii) a relative positional relationship in web data between the information to be extracted and the predetermined character string, and (iii) a character count of the information to be extracted; and a display unit operable to search each of the obtained pieces of web data for the predetermined character string, extract, based on the character count, information from web data in the relative positional relationship with the predetermined character string found as a result of the search, construct, with use of the extracted information, a list having a heading item that is the predetermined character string, and display the constructed list.