Patent ID: 6990490
Filing Date: 2006-01-24
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. 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 plurality of communities in each of which an access authority is controlled; generating a plurality of message trees in each of the communities, each of the message trees accepting 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 an 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; accepting a message whose destination in the communities is undecided; calculating a plurality of similarities between the message and the plurality of communities; and displaying a guide information wherein the communities are listed in the order of the similarities.