Patent ID: 7500180

Claim:
An information collection/management apparatus, comprising: information registration means for, in response to an information registration request from a terminal device, generating an interface for use in registering new collected information depending on information type/category, transmitting the resultant interface to the terminal device, classifying the new collected information by business category, storing, into predetermined storage means, the new collected information transmitted from the terminal device in response to the transmission of the interface, depending on the business category, storing information identifying any previously registered collected information that the new collected information is related to, and transmitting a message to the terminal device, the message comprising information notifying that the new collected information has been registered; notification transmission means for receiving information identifying an information registrant from the information registration means, acquiring a relevant mail address corresponding to the information registrant, automatically generating an electronic mail addressed to the relevant mail address, and storing the relevant mail address; view request response means for generating at-a-glance information in response to a collected-information view request from a terminal device, transmitting the generated at-a-glance information to the terminal device, acquiring collected information indicated by information identifying collected information returned by the terminal device in response to the transmission of the at-a-glance information, and transmitting the acquired collected information to the terminal device; access right management means for supplying, to the view request response means, information indicating which piece of collected information is allowed to be viewed by a user of a terminal device, according to a predetermined right of access; score information providing means for, in response to a score information view request from a terminal device, retrieving a score that reflects usefulness of information for each piece of new collected information registered by at least one of business departments, sections, or personnel, calculating a total score by summing up all the scores, and providing the total score; and analysis means for receiving the total score from the score information providing means, adding the total score to a user total score of the information registrant of the new collected information, and determining if the information registrant registers useful information based on the user total score.