Patent ID: 6877135

Claim:
A document display apparatus that manages a plurality of electronic documents each holding, when a linked document having hyperlinks exists, a relative relevancy to the linked document, as structure information, determines a display priority of each electronic document, and displays each electronic document based on the display priority thereof, provided with: structure storage means for storing the display priority of each said electronic document; structure analysis means for determining the display priority of each of said plurality of electronic documents based on the structure information held by each of said plurality of electronic documents, and stores the display priority thereof in said structure storage means; and display means for determining a display method of each said electronic document based on the display priority determined by said structure analysis means, wherein said structure analysis means scans each linked document based on the structure information held by an origin electronic document, analyzes a document group structure and stores information corresponding to the document group structure in said structure storage means, wherein said structure analysis means does not scan linked documents of electronic documents having a display priority having a value that is smaller than a predetermined first set value, and wherein said structure analysis means excludes electronic documents having a display priority that has a value smaller than a predetermined second set value from a management target of the document group structure stored in said structure storage means, and releases computer resources needed for a management of said excluded electronic documents.