Patent ID: 7069500
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A document management/EDI system linkage unit, comprising: a document management means having an accumulation means that assigns a version to a prepared transaction document and accumulates the document and a version control means that manages version control information for the accumulation; an EDI means that creates and sends EDI data for an electronic transaction; and a linkage means that links the document management means and the EDI means, that acquires sending information of the EDI data from the EDI means, and that registers sending information of the EDI data in the version control information of the relevant transaction document when the accumulated transaction document and the particular version are selected and attached to the EDI data, wherein the EDI data is sent by the EDI means, wherein the EDI means comprises a means for receiving EDI data, and wherein the linkage means comprises a means which discerns a relevant transaction of the transaction document attached to the EDI data and, when a transaction document is attached to the received EDI data and the attached transaction document is discerned as a document of a transaction already in progress, accumulates the attached document as the latest version of the relevant transaction document which is managed with relation to the electronic transaction, and, when the attached transaction document is discerned as a document of a new electronic transaction, accumulates the attached document as the first version of a new document and registers receiving information of the EDI data in the version control information.