Patent ID: 7272787

Claim:
A web page processing method comprising: acquiring a first web page including display elements; identifying a headline and a story body in the first web page by creating an internal depiction of the first web page; computing positions of the display elements based the internal depiction; classifying closely related display elements together as clusters based on the computed positions of the display elements; discriminating a cluster of headlines and story bodies from other clusters by determining a center-of-gravity line which is a vertical line that crosses the largest number of display elements in the internal depiction and judging clusters as one of left, right, or middle in reference to the center-of-gravity line, wherein the cluster of headlines and story bodies is middle with respect to the other clusters; forming groups, a group including clusters having the same character attributes; calculating an average number of characters per cluster for each of the groups; and determining the headline and the story body, wherein a group having a low average is the headline and a group having a high average is the story body; creating a second web page including the story body from the first web page; and creating a third web page including the headline from the first web page, wherein the headline in the third web page is a link to the second web page containing the story body.