Abstract: An information providing server is connected via the Internet to a mediation server and a reference terminal. The mediation server, when receiving a request for searching a home page, request the server for an index image file. The information providing server creates the index image file by use of an HTML file and an image file held by the information providing server itself, and the index image file being configured such that a first screen of the home page corresponding to the searching request is displayed with a single picture. The created index image file is given from the information providing server to the reference terminal through the mediation server, and images corresponding to the index image file are displayed as a searched result in the reference terminal and are referred to by a user of the reference terminal.

Abstract: The present invention is a software generating device for generating new software by a plurality of modules. This device includes an extraction unit analyzing specifications of software to extract necessary modules, and a retrieval unit checking whether the modules are stored in our own device and for executing a retrieving process of the modules for another device connected through a network if the modules are not stored in our own device. For this reason, modules held by the other device can be used through the network.

Abstract: The invention is directed to the provision of a method and apparatus for video data file creation and a recording medium for use with the same, and a primary object of the invention is to make video data edited in a prescribed format viewable on a computer where the application used to create the video data is not installed. The video data file creation apparatus comprises a video data creation means for editing display data shown on a display into a designated format, and for creating an executable video data file by appending display producing means to the edited display data. The video data creation means retrieves from a storage device a data file to be processed in an application processing means and, in accordance with a user-specified instruction item, edits the video data file obtained by processing the data file; the video data creation means then appends the display producing means to the edited video data file, thus creating the executable video data file.