Patent ID: 7490090

Claim:
A computer-implemented information processing apparatus comprising: browsing means implemented by a computer device, for receiving and displaying document data, said document data corresponding to a downloaded document including one or more executable scripts; operation detection means implemented by said browsing means executing a first of said one or more executable scripts, for employing an input operation, performed by a user when said user browses said document data displayed by said browsing means, to detect an operation defined as a specific operation that said user unintentionally performed to obtain interesting information; and character string extraction means implemented by said browsing means executing a second of said one or more executable scripts, for extracting a character string that is displayed at a location whereat said specific operation that is detected by said operation detection means is performed on a display screen of said browsing means, wherein the specific operation comprises an operation selected from all of the group of operations of selecting of text, pointing to a link, clicking on a link, tracing and reading in a transverse horizontal direction detected in accordance with the user's movement of a pointer in a transverse direction that matches the direction of horizontally oriented lines of text of a displayed document or transverse movement of the pointer perpendicular to vertically oriented lines, and, tracing and reading in a vertical direction detected in accordance with user's movement of the pointer perpendicular to the horizontally oriented lines and movement of the pointer that matches the direction of vertically oriented lines of text of a displayed document.