Patent ID: 7039861

Claim:
A device for generating presentation data comprising: a document data acquisition part for acquiring a plurality of document data sets, each document data set containing contents to be presented; a transformation data acquisition part for acquiring a plurality of transformation data sets, each transformation data set defining a rule for transforming respective one of said document data sets into a presentation data set that presents contents of said document data sets; a layout data acquisition part for acquiring a layout data set containing layout information that defines a layout of said document data sets upon presenting contents of said document data sets, wherein the layout data set contains acquisition source reference information for acquiring said document data set and said transformation data set corresponding to said document data set; and a presentation data-generating part for transforming said document data sets based on said layout data set and on said transformation data sets so as to generate a unified presentation data set that presents contents of said document data sets in accordance with said layout defined in said layout data set.