Patent ID: 7409419

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling outputting of web data, which is processed into a web page provided on the Internet, from an output device, said apparatus comprising: a receiving section ( 2 ) for receiving direction information of a direction to output web data, which direction information has been issued by a user with inputting a URL of a web page; a web data obtaining section ( 3 ) for obtaining the web data that is processed into the web page of the URL inputted by the user on the basis of said direction information received in said receiving section ( 2 ); an output data creating section ( 4 ) for creating output data by extracting beneficial web data which beneficial web data is one or more web page linked to the web page of the web data obtained by said web data obtaining section ( 3 ) and is of benefit to the user; and an output controlling section ( 5 ) for controlling the output device to output the output data created by said output data creating section; wherein said output data creating section ( 4 ) comprises a link importance checking section ( 42 ) for checking whether or not one or more web pages linked to the first-named web page of the URL inputted by the user are important on the basis of the number of appearances of a keyword in said one or more web pages and the number of appearances of the keyword in the first-named web page and creates the output data by extracting one or more web pages, as the beneficial web data, which are linked to the first-named web page and which are determined to be important on the basis of the result of the checking performed by said link importance checking section ( 42 ); wherein said output data creating section ( 4 ) creates a list of URLs of web pages which are among the one or more web pages linked to the first-named web page and which are other than last-named one or more web pages serving as the beneficial web data, the list being included in the output data.