Patent ID: 7676764
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A document management apparatus which communicates with a plurality of devices and processes a user-desired document selected from a plurality of documents managed by the document management apparatus, comprising: a memory constructed to store a computer-executable program; and a Computer Processing Unit (CPU) constructed to execute the computer-executable program stored in the memory, wherein the CPU executes the computer-executable program stored in the memory so as to control the document management apparatus to communicate with the plurality of devices, and process the user desired document selected from the plurality of documents managed by the document management apparatus, the computer-executable program including program codes for which the CPU executes steps that comprise: storing, in the memory, processing functions of a plurality of devices connected to the document management apparatus; displaying icons on a screen, wherein each icon corresponds to each of a plurality of devices connected to the document management apparatus; displaying a list of the plurality of documents managed by the document management apparatus, and accepting a selection of a user-desired document in the displayed list of the plurality of documents based on a selection operation of a user; acquiring settings which are held in the selected user-desired document; determining which one of the plurality of devices corresponding to the displayed icons can process the user-desired document based on the acquired settings and the processing functions stored in the memory; and changing a display form of a displayed icon based on a determination result determined in the determination step so that the display form of an icon corresponding to the device which can process the user-desired document is distinct from the display form of an icon corresponding to a device which cannot process the user-desired document.