Patent ID: 7302646

Claim:
An information rearrangement method for rearranging information obtained from information sources connected via a network comprising: an information collection step of collecting information from a predetermined number of registered sites; an information element extraction step of extracting, from among said collected information, information elements that include the same facts that are referred to at multiple sites, said information element extraction step comprising selecting, from keywords of information elements included in one set, a keyword having an appearance rate that is equal to or greater than a threshold value, said keywords comprising words that are searchable, rankable, extractable, representations of information elements for determining the same facts included in the information elements, and chosen from the group consisting of anchors, links, text, nouns, predetermined proper nouns, and predetermined verbs; and a display step of displaying the contents of said extracted information elements while changing the display state of said contents in accordance with the number of sites whereat said facts are referred to; said step of displaying comprising extracting a set of important information elements on a sentence level from a group composed of a predetermined number of sites, and folding the display for the same sets of important information elements.