Patent ID: 7370041
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information processing method for allowing an information acquisition apparatus to make a transmitting request for document information which is transmitted from an information registration apparatus and is registered in an information management apparatus, and for allowing the information acquisition apparatus to receive and acquire the document information transmitted from the information management apparatus upon the transmitting request, the method comprising: creating, by said information registration apparatus, summary information including outline information containing a part of document information registered in the information management apparatus, location information indicating the information management apparatus in which said document information is registered and a registration location in said information management apparatus, and registrant information specifying itself; transmitting, by said information registration apparatus, the summary information to said information acquisition apparatus; receiving, by said information acquisition apparatus, the summary information from the information registration apparatus; creating, by said information acquisition apparatus, a communication document containing a message to communicate with a registrant of document information, the document information being accessible in accordance with the location information included in the received summary information; and transmitting, by said information acquisition apparatus, the created communication document according to the registrant information included in the summary information corresponding to the communication document.