Patent ID: 8825756

Claim:
A server apparatus to which a terminal apparatus that displays an input area, into which information to be posted to a service in which information posted from a user can be browsed by other users is input by characters, can be connected via a network, the server apparatus comprising: a character information receiving unit that receives character information indicating an input character from the terminal apparatus every time the user inputs the character into the input area when the input area corresponding to a first service which is one of a plurality of the services is displayed by the terminal apparatus; a storage control unit that stores the character information received by the character information receiving unit in a storage unit included in a server apparatus different from a server apparatus of the first service and different from a server apparatus of a second service which is one of the plurality of the services and is different from the first service; a request information receiving unit that receives request information indicating a request to display the input area corresponding to the second service from the terminal apparatus; and a transmitting unit that transmits instruction information, which indicates an instruction to display the input area corresponding to the request information received by the request information receiving unit and which includes the character information stored in the storage unit as character information indicating one or more characters previously input into the input area displayed by the terminal apparatus on the basis of the instruction information, to the terminal apparatus.