Patent ID: 7290213

Claim:
A method for perusing information, said method comprising: detecting a user-specified position within a virtual space, the user-specified position being movable within the virtual space, the virtual space being a multidimensional space of at least three dimensions and including a plurality of indicators located at a plurality of positions whereby a given one of the plurality of indicators is located at a specific one of the plurality of positions, the given one of the plurality of indicators representing particular information stored at a unique one of a plurality of storage locations; detecting whether at least one of the plurality of indicators is located within a virtual spread that encloses the user-specified position; when a respective one of the plurality of indicators is detected within the virtual spread, acquiring first information represented by the respective one of the plurality of indicators, determining a relation within the virtual space between the user-specified position and the respective one of the plurality of indicators, including determining a distance within the virtual space between the user-specified position and the respective one of the plurality of indicators, and presenting first website content contained within the acquired first information including displaying an image depicting a first page of the first website content on a screen based on the relation, wherein said presenting step includes displaying the image depicting the first page of the first website content with a specified degree of transparency, the specified degree of transparency decreasing as the distance within the virtual space between the user-specified position and the respective one of the plurality of indicators increases; and when the respective one of the plurality of indicators and a further one of the plurality of indicators are detected within the virtual spread, said acquiring step includes acquiring second information represented by the further one of the plurality of indicators, and said presenting step includes concurrently displaying the image depicting the first page of the first website content contained within the acquired first information and a further image depicting a first page of second website content contained within the acquired second information.