Patent ID: 6766321
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A document management method for, concerning the document that can be owned jointly by the respective users of the plural terminal devices via a network, renewing the document by reflecting an editing intention shown by each of the users while managing the renewal history of the document, the method comprising:generating a community in which an access authority is controlled; generating a plurality of message trees in the community, each of which accepts a message from users using the terminal devices, the message being in reply to the other message in the message tree; editing a plurality of documents each of which is associated with one of the message trees; generating additive message subjected to a change within one of the documents, the additive message being written into the corresponding message tree by one of the users who made the change; generating a bidirectional reference between the additive message and the corresponding document; and searching for one of the documents as an instructive knowledge for at least one of the users in the community, wherein the corresponding massage tree is referred to by said one of users using the found document.