Patent ID: 6931588

Claim:
A device displaying hypertext data including link information indicating an existence of a link to other data, comprising: a designating unit designating informing data corresponding to the link information for the other data to be acquired from among informing data, comprising text and an icon, showing the presence of link information in the hypertext data displayed on a display; a first information acquiring unit acquiring information showing a location of the displayed hypertext data including the informing data designated by the designating unit; a second information acquiring unit acquiring the link information specified by the informing data designated by the designating unit; a storage unit comprising a table storing the location information acquired by the first information acquiring unit and the link information acquired by the second information acquiring unit in correspondence to each other; and a data acquiring unit acquiring the hypertext data from the location according to the location information and the other data indicated by the link information from the location information and the link information are stored in the storage unit, wherein the first and second information acquiring units acquire respective information related to the designated informing data when the designated informing data is displayed in an off-line state such that the designated informing data can be subsequently read in an on-line state.