Patent ID: 6901553

Claim:
An apparatus for providing a specific access space that specifies a path specific to a user who searches a hyperlink in a hypertext space composed of mutual link relation between one or more hypertexts provided by one or more servers, comprising: a space specific information management unit that adds space identification information to specific information for each user associated with the specific access space relative to page information and manages in correlation with a reference to the page information; an analysis unit that interprets a page request from the user and extracts a reference of requested page information and the space identification information; a page information request unit that requests the page information referred to by the reference extracted by the analysis unit to a server which provides the hypertext; a page information reception unit that receives the page information from the server which provides the hypertext; a specific information addition unit that takes the specific information out of the space specific information management unit corresponding to the space identification information extracted by the analysis unit and adds the specific information of the received page information to the page information; and a space identification information addition unit that replaces the reference included in the received page information with the corresponding space identification information, wherein page information synthesized by the specific information addition unit and the space identification information addition unit is provided to the user instead of an original page information referred to by a reference specified by the user.