Patent ID: 7296230

Claim:
A linked contents browsing support method which supports, via an object which has a linked destination, browsing of linked contents which are contents connected to the object, comprising: a step in which a mouse event observation section observes a mouse event of a mouse cursor upon a screen of an information device by a user, and detects from the mouse event that the mouse cursor has entered into a region of the object which has the linked destination; a step in which a window display section, when the mouse event occurs, utilizes an anchor position acquisition section to acquire a display position upon the screen of the object into the region of which the mouse cursor has entered; a step in which the window display section utilizes a display size calculation section to acquire a display size for a window in which the object is displayed, and to calculate a display size for a new window which displays contents for presentation which correspond to the object, based upon the display size which has been acquired; a step in which a display position derivation section takes the display position upon the screen of the object acquired by the anchor position acquisition section as an origin, and detects points upon a predetermined direction line for which, if each of the points upon the direction line is taken as a central position of the new window, the entire region of the new window is displayed upon the screen; a step in which the display position derivation section detects, from among the points which have been detected, a point for which a window for which this point has been taken as the central position is not put upon the object; a step in which the display position derivation section determines a display position upon the screen of the new window, based upon the point for which the window is not put upon the object; a step in which, in response to the fact that the mouse event observation section has detected that the mouse cursor has entered into the region of the object which has the linked destination, the window display section displays the new window in the display position upon the screen which has been determined by the display position derivation section; a step in which a linked contents acquisition section acquires linked contents which are connected to the object for which it has been detected by the mouse event observation section that the region has been entered into; and a step in which a linked contents presentation section creates contents for presentation based upon the linked contents which have been acquired, and displays the created contents for presentation within the new window which has been displayed upon the screen.