BROWSING DEVICE FOR MOBIL TERMINAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten communication time with an information center. SOLUTION: A cache area 40 is secured in a PC card 15 and divided into a temporary cache area T and a permanent cache area P. Data such as picture data in a home page of which requests are frequently generated are stored in the area P. Data stored in the area P are not deleted in principle. Which area is to be used for caching, the area T or the area P is specified by an extension tag in an HTML document. The extension tag is analyzed by a cache processing extension tag analyzing part 34 and a cache processing control part 35 executes cache control based on the analytical result of the analysis part 34.