Patent ID: 7779105

Claim:
A parameter setting/storing method, comprising the steps of: storing parameters necessary for browsing of content in a storage unit while associating the parameters with location information of the content, the parameters including parameters used for acquisition of the content and the layout of the content; judging whether stored location information, which is identical with requested location information locating content for which browsing is requested, has been stored in the storage unit; acquiring parameters that have been stored in the storage unit that are associated with stored location information which is judged to be identical with the requested location information acquiring parameters that have been stored in the storage unit that are associated with stored location information satisfying a prescribed rule with respect to the requested location information, from the storage unit if it is judged that no location information identical with the requested location information has been stored in the storage unit acquiring the content in accordance with the acquired parameters; and laying out the acquired content in accordance with the acquired parameters.