Patent ID: 7991759

Claim:
A communication apparatus that retrieves contents and transmits the retrieved contents, comprising: a processor; reception means for receiving a retrieval keyword, used to request contents, transmitted from an external device; retrieval means for retrieving contents from a database based on the retrieval keyword received by the reception means; page information generation means for generating page information, including list information of the contents retrieved by the retrieval means, to be displayed on a display unit of the external device, and appending and displaying on the display unit, at a position adjacent to corresponding list information of contents, notification information that is an icon or text information that displays on the display unit and indicates to a user whether or not the corresponding list information of contents is provided with a consecutive reproduction function that makes the external device consecutively play audibly and/or visually the retrieved contents in the corresponding list information; wherein the page information generation means appends identification information that indicates whether or not the page information is provided with the consecutive reproduction function to the page information, and makes the external device display a notification indication corresponding to the identification information; and transmission means for transmitting the page information generated by the page information generation means to the external device.