Patent ID: 6516328
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A tangible medium storing a program executable by a sever to control transfer of a document among a plurality of computers, said program when executed causes said server to perform the steps of:storing, in a memory accessible by the server, a business process definition which is a circulation route of a document and which defines one of said computers as a transfer source computer of said document and another one of said computers as a transfer destination computer of said document, said business process definition having been predetermined prior to transfer of said document on said circulation route; transferring said document from said transfer source computer to said transfer destination computer based on said business process definition; creating, each time said document is transmitted from said transfer source computer to said transfer destination computer, transfer history information containing identifiers of said transfer source and transfer destination computers, a transfer time of said document, and an identifier of said document for every business process definition stored, and storing said transfer history information in said memory accessible by the server so as to be related to said business process definition according to related information; and responsive to a request including related information identifying desired transfer history information from a computer, extracting the requested transfer history information from said transfer history information stored in said memory based on said related information, and transmitting the extracted transfer history information to said computer which sent said request.