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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2000
Toshihiro Hishida, Hyogo, JP;
Seiji Ura, Osaka, JP;
Hidehiko Shin, Osaka, JP;
Junji Ishigaki, Tokyo, JP;
Keizaburo Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Eriko Ooseki, Kanagawa, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A document processing apparatus that automatically carries out a transmission operation at the time of a link selection, which selects a telephone number described in the link information without carrying out a useless operation. The link information is the additional information which is not actually displayed, like as the HTML. The document processing apparatus includes a receiver for receiving the document; a link information extractor for extracting the link information from the document a display for displaying the document based on the link information extracted by the link information extractor; a selector for selecting the link information in the document; and a link operator controller for carrying out the transmission operation to another party, when the link information selected by the selector is the telephone number information.