Patent ID: 7191212

Claim:
A server connected to a plurality of clients through a network, and which comprises a control unit and a storage unit, wherein said control unit: (a) receives information regarding a web page which a user of a client obtains by browsing on the Internet; (b) stores the information regarding the web page in said storage unit in association with an indentification of the user; (c) reads out, in response to a request from the client, information corresponding to the user of the client which has sent the request, among the information stored in said storage unit; (d) generates a screen for displaying in a list, contents of the read-out information in accordance with a display format specified by an information providing manner selected by the user from among a plurality of information providing manners for specifying a plurality of display formats, the plurality of display formats specified by the plurality of information providing manners being different from one another; (e) provides the generated screen to said client which has sent the request, wherein (f) the information includes a web page URL, a title, a screen image, the user's comments on a web page, a category, a registration date, and an access number as elements, and said control unit: (g) stores, in the storage unit, the information providing manner selected by the user; (h) extracts a data element out of the web page URL, the title, the screen image, the user's comments on the web page, the category, the registration date, and the access number, in accordance with the stored information providing manner; and (i) generates data representing a screen for displaying, in a list, the data element in accordance with the stored information providing manner.