Patent ID: 8359552

Claim:
A portable information terminal comprising: a document file acquiring unit configured to acquire a document file including a plurality of Links; a rendering unit configured to determine a layout of the document file; a display unit configured to display the document file in accordance with the determined layout; a touch panel provided over the display unit configured to detect a position touched by a controlling object; a detection area setting unit configured to set an object detection area in association with each link of the plurality of links; a matching unit configured to match the position detected by the touch panel against the object detection area so as to determine which object detection area is selected; and an access executing unit configured to access a resource identified by the link associated with the selected object detection area, wherein the object detection area is different than an area in which the associated link is displayed, and wherein the object detection area is arranged to be at least partially superposed on the area in which the associated link is displayed and to be spaced apart from an adjacent object detection area by a predefined minimum distance, without modifying the layout of the document file.