Patent ID: 6279031
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
An electronic document transmitting program comprising:a first area for managing storage of electronic documents; anda plurality of second areas for managing storage of electronic documents, said second areas being provided respectively for a plurality of processes which are operable to process electronic documents stored in said first area,wherein an electronic document stored in said first area is forwarded to one of said plurality of second areas based on a predetermined selection criterion,wherein at least one process is defined as a role, and said predetermined selection criteria include at least one of a random selection criterion for randomly selecting a process from said role, a sequence selection criterion for selecting a process next to a previously selected process from a process list of said role, an allocation rate selection criterion for selecting a process in accordance with an allocation rate which was made by preliminarily weighting processes in said role, a burden selection criterion for selecting a process having a largest difference between a current burden and a preliminarily set burden in accordance with burdens which were preliminarily set for processes of said role, a recursive selection criterion for selecting from said role a process which previously processed an electronic document in question, and a priority order selection criterion for preferentially selecting from said role a process corresponding to an electronic document in question in accordance with priorities which were preliminarily defined for processes of said role based on an electronic document.