Patent ID: 6898621

Claim:
A message processing apparatus connected to a plurality of terminal apparatuses via a network, comprising: a preparation unit preparing a receiver state list containing names of a plurality of receivers, each receiver having received an interpersonal message relating to a business activity, the receiver state list also containing individual states of each of the respective receivers, each individual state being mutually associated with the name of a corresponding receiver, where each individual state of each receiver indicates a status of that receiver's activity regarding the business activity, and where the indicating is based on responses received from the receivers in response to the interpersonal message; and a message management unit enabling display of, in a mutually associated manner, the interpersonal message relating to the business activity and the receiver state list, where the display is enabled on each of the terminal apparatuses belonging to a sender and the plurality of the receivers of the interpersonal message relating to the business activity, wherein the sender comprises a manager managing the business activity, the receivers comprise respective staff, the interpersonal message is a message inquiring about progress of the staff concerning the business activity, and the manager receives the response messages from the staff, where the responses include completion information indicating whether the business activity has been completed, and wherein the preparation unit prepares the receiver state list containing, in the mutually associated manner, the names of the plurality of receivers and the states of each of the respective receivers to indicate, based on completion information in the responses, whether the business activity has been completed, and wherein the preparation unit prepares information representing a ratio of received having completed the business activity based on the completion information, which indicates respective completion states of the business activity of the receivers of the interpersonal message relating to the business activity, and prepares a message list containing, in a mutually associated manner, the information presenting the ratio of the receivers having completed the business activity and also containing a title of the interpersonal message relating to the business activities; and the message management unit enables display of the message list and the receiver state list in the mutually associated manner on each of the terminal apparatuses belonging to the sender and the plurality of receivers of the interpersonal message relating to the business activity.