Patent ID: 7386793
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A document review support apparatus for supporting a review of a document, comprising: a storage which stores position-attribute management information defining items of position information to be acquired from a document to be reviewed, said position-attribute management information being stored independently from said document to be reviewed; an input unit which receives, from a user, an input including a designation of a position in said document to be reviewed at which a comment is to be added to comments currently associated with said document to be reviewed, and said comment; an acquiring unit, responsive to said input from said input unit, which acquires said position information from a position designated by said user in accordance with said position-attribute management information in said storage and stores, as an entry to comment-solution management information defining a comment and a solution to the comment, said position information and said comment to be added in said storage such that said position information and comment information of said comment to be added are correlated to each other; a search unit, coupled with said input unit and said acquiring unit, which searches, from the position-attribute management information and the comment-solution management information stored in said storage, said position information and said comments currently associated with said document to be reviewed; and a display unit, coupled with the search unit, which collectively displays at least position information, said comment to be added and comments currently associated with said document so as to correlate, on a display screen at positions indicated by said at least position information, said comments to be added and said comments currently associated with said document to each other.