Information processing device
View Patent ↗An information processing device includes: an information acquisition process control unit for selecting an information piece to be selected and sending an instruction to a communication unit; the communication unit for transmitting an information acquisition request to other information processing device connected via a network, and acquiring information from the other information processing device according to the instruction; and a storage unit storing a display amount information indicating the amount of display information which can be displayed on a display unit at once. The information acquisition process control unit instructs the communication unit to acquire more information than the amount indicated by the display amount information. This realizes an effective information acquisition and appropriate user-friendliness.
1. An information processing device connected to other information processing device via a network and comprising:
a display unit;
a storage unit;
an information acquisition process control unit; and
a communication unit;
wherein the storage unit holds screen configuration information concerning arrangement of a plurality of information pieces displayed on the display unit;
the information acquisition process control unit selects an information piece from among the plurality of information pieces which are not displayed on the display unit by referencing the screen configuration information and transmits to the communication unit a signal instructing acquisition of the selected information piece; and
the communication unit acquires the selected information from the other information processing device based on the instruction signal,
wherein the communication unit includes information described in a markup language capable of setting an element type of an element in a document; and
the information acquisition process control unit specifies and selects an element type of information to be acquired by referencing the screen configuration information,
wherein the device further comprising a screen display control unit for generating display screen information for performing display on a display screen of the display unit;
wherein the screen display control unit generates display screen information by using the screen configuration information and information acquired from the other information processing device by the communication unit via the network;
an input unit;
wherein the information described by the markup language acquired by the communication unit includes character information and image information;
the display screen displayed according to the display screen information displays a partial range of a content including the arrangement of the character information or the image information and a list of contents, one of which is currently displayed on the screen;
before the input unit transmits a signal for modifying the displayed range of the arrangement of the information to the screen display control unit,
the information acquisition process control unit specifies and selects an element type of information of the contents arranged at a position nearest to the currently displayed content on the list of contents at least among the contents not displayed on the display screen among the contents on the contents list, and transmits an acquisition instruction signal of the selected contents information to the communication unit; and
the communication unit acquires a part of the information from the other information processing device based on the instruction signal.