Abstract: An apparatus for laying out image data and text data on a page, which distributes multiple sets of image data and text data into multiple sets of an image box and a text box upon a page in an order based on attribute information of the image data, compares the text data to an upper limit of the text box into which the text data has been distributed and when the text data is greater than the upper limit of the text box, switches the set of the image data and the text data with another set of distributed image data and text data into another set of an image box and a text box, the text data is less than the upper limit of the other text box, and the upper limit of the text box is greater than the other text data.

Abstract: An apparatus for laying out image data and text data on a page, which distributes multiple sets of image data and text data into multiple sets of an image box and a text box upon a page in an order based on attribute information of the image data, compares the text data to an upper limit of the text box into which the text data has been distributed and when the text data is greater than the upper limit of the text box, switches the set of the image data and the text data with another set of distributed image data and text data into another set of an image box and a text box, the text data is less than the upper limit of the other text box, and the upper limit of the text box is greater than the other text data.

Abstract: When a user receives an online service by accessing a plurality of sites in turn, the user is immediately notified that the user cannot obtain the service since a certain site is out of service. A communication terminal accesses a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus in turn to execute communication, thereby obtaining the service. When a service intermediation apparatus receives a request for a service from the communication terminal, the service intermediation apparatus detects an operating state of the second information processing apparatus. Then, for example, if the second information processing apparatus is in operation, a link to the first information processing apparatus is provided as a response to the communication terminal. If the second information processing apparatus is out of operation, the link thereto is not provided.

Abstract: When a user receives an online service by accessing a plurality of sites in turn, the user is immediately notified that the user cannot obtain the service since a certain site is out of service. A communication terminal accesses a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus in turn to execute communication, thereby obtaining the service. When a service intermediation apparatus receives a request for a service from the communication terminal, the service intermediation apparatus detects an operating state of the second information processing apparatus. Then, for example, if the second information processing apparatus is in operation, a link to the first information processing apparatus is provided as a response to the communication terminal. If the second information processing apparatus is out of operation, the link thereto is not provided.