Patent ID: 8095864

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: a display unit having a display screen; means for reading a program, the program comprising: allocation information for defining a display region to be allocated in the display screen, page specification information identifying a desired page, wherein the desired page includes one or more links to linked pages, and linking information for at least linking to the linked pages without referencing addresses of the one or more links, wherein the linking information includes an address of a source page and a separate indicator, the indicator indicating that the source page corresponds to the desired page that includes the one or more links; means for configuring the display region in the display screen based on the allocation information; means for obtaining the desired page based on the linking information; means for parsing the desired page to obtain the one or more links; means for sequentially and automatically accessing the linked pages of over the Internet from the obtained one or more links when required for display, and displaying the accessed linked pages in the display region, wherein the means for configuring the display region is operable to: produce a first sub-region and a second sub-region within the display region; display a list of links to the linked pages in the first sub-region, a first link in the list of links being visually distinguished from the other links in the list of links; and subsequently after a first linked page corresponding to the first link is retrieved over the Internet, displaying the first linked page in the second sub-region; wherein the linking information further includes information defining a link time interval, and the means for obtaining allows the linked pages displayed in the display region to be changed based on the link time interval, wherein the link time interval is determined based on a link duration and a number of links.