Patent ID: 6910018
Filing Date: 2005-06-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A purchase request approving apparatus capable of approving a purchase request of a desired article stored in a database in advance, comprising: display means for displaying a list window, wherein the list window contains a list of articles for which approval has been requested, a selection approval button to display an approval processing window, and a selection reject button to display a rejection processing window; selecting means for selecting an article, in accordance with a user operation, from the articles displayed in the list window; display control means for executing appearance of an approval processing window in response to selection of the selection approval button, and for executing appearance of a rejection processing window in response to selection of the selection reject button, wherein the approval processing window has an approval button to perform approval of the selected article, an approval cancel button to cancel approval processing of the selected article, and the selected article, and wherein the rejection processing window has a reject button to perform rejection of the selected article, a reject cancel button to cancel rejection processing of the selected article, and the selected article; purchase approving means for updating status of the selected article as an approved article in the database, for deleting the selected article from the list in the list window, and for sending an e-mail to a client which has requested an approval of the selected article to notify the client of the approval of the article, wherein the purchase approving means operates in response to selecting the approval button in the approval processing window; and purchase rejection means for updating status of the selected article as a rejected article in the database and for sending e-mail to a client which has requested for an approval of the selected article to notify of the rejection of the article, wherein the purchase rejection means operates in response to selecting the reject button in the rejection processing window.