Display-information deciding method and apparatus, and storage medium storing software-product for deciding display information

• Main Authors: TSUCHIYA, MASAKAZU, HIGUCHI, SATOSHI, TSUCHITANI, HAJIME, MINAMI, KAZUHIRO, ZETTSU, KOJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; DISPLAYING; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; PHYSICS; SEALS; SIGNS

To dynamically change contents to be embedded in a page template or layouts without editing an HTML file or correcting a server program such as a CGI or the like. Servlet having the information for specifying a display area and a display attribute used to control displays as parameters in a page template is defined. When the Servlet is recognized at the web server side, a plurality of part beans stored by being related to display-area specifying information are specified. The information for linking image data for forming an object to be embedded in the display area and link-destination-URL information is set to the part beans as properties. Moreover, display condition information such as schedule information or the like is related to the part beans. A display condition is checked by each of the part beans stored by being related to the display-area specifying information to obtain the image data for forming an object to be embedded in a display area, link-destination-URL information or the like in accordance with the link information serving as properties of the part beans meeting the display condition and generate the HTML.