Patent ID: 8001210

Claim:
A display information transmitting method, executed by a server apparatus connected, via a network, to a terminal apparatus having a display that displays a next screen that includes a plurality of screen elements, different variations of the next screen each including necessary screen elements of the plurality of screen elements and at least one including less than all of the plurality of screen elements, the display being adapted to display less than all of the plurality of screen elements of the next screen, the method comprising: receiving a screen display request corresponding to the next screen to be displayed on the display, the screen display request being received from the terminal apparatus via the network when a current screen displayed on the display will be changed; reading a display information file corresponding to the screen display request from a display information file storage that stores a plurality of display information files, each of the plurality of display information files including all of the necessary screen elements of the plurality of screen elements included in one of the different variations of the next screen and no unnecessary screen elements of the plurality of screen elements included in others of the different variations of the next screen and not in the one of the different variations; and transmitting the read display information file to the terminal apparatus via the network, wherein the server reads and transmits the display information file without generating any of the next screen from the necessary screen elements included in the display information file.