Patent ID: 8312369

Claim:
A method for displaying various types of information, the method comprising: monitoring a state of a computer having a display device for displaying the information and extracting context information indicative of the state, the context information including window composition information which is information that identifies a window screen contained in a screen being displayed on the display device; saving one or more note information associated with a context information extracted at a time of registration of the note information for display, in a storage device; determining for each piece of the one or more saved note information, similarity between the extracted context information extracted at a certain point in time and the context information extracted at the time of registration which is associated with the one or more note information saved in the storage device; and displaying, by the display device, the one or more saved note information saved in the storage device in a display mode in accordance with the determined similarity of, wherein the context information extracted at the time of registration includes giving a weighted value to respective window screens included in a screen that is being displayed on the display device at the time of registration of the note information, the weighted value based on the display mode of the window screen, and extracting the window composition information including the weighted values for the respective window screens as context information, wherein saving the one or more note information includes saving the one or more note information in association with the extracted window composition information including the weighted values, and wherein determining the similarity between the context information extracted at the of registration and the extracted context information extracted at the certain point in time includes evaluating the similarity of the weighted values.