Patent ID: 8756525

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for displaying information about a plurality of content files in a display area by displaying display information items associated with the content files, the information processing apparatus comprising: a recording medium storing information relating to a plurality of content files, the information comprising, for at least one content file, data of the content file and a data structure storing additional data about the content file, the additional data comprising an identifier for the content file and information identifying at least one display information item associated with the content file; a display unit configured to display in the display area, for the plurality of content files, a plurality of display information items each corresponding to a content file, and an indicator for indicating that one of the display information items is currently selected in the display area, at least two of the display information items being associated with a first content file, a first display information item of the plurality of display information items being a text information item associated with the first content file and a second display information item of the plurality of display information items being an image information item associated with the first content file, wherein the additional data of the data structure associated with the first content file identifies the text information item and the image information item; an operation unit; and a control unit configured to receive an instruction for updating a current selection of the indicator such that a display information item of the plurality of display information items is selected, determine, when the indicator selects a display information item of the plurality of display information items, a relationship between the selected display information item and at least one other display information item that is associated with a same content file of the plurality of content files as the selected display information item, wherein determining the relationship comprises: accessing the additional data of the data structure for the content file corresponding to the selected display information item to determine whether there is at least one other display information item associated with the content file, and when there is at least one other display information item associated with the content file, identifying the at least one other display information item from the additional data for the content file, and when there is at least one other display information item associated with the same content file as the selected display information item, display, in the display area, an image object indicating the relationship between the selected display information item and the at least one other display information item determined to have the relationship with the selected display information item.