Patent ID: 8200720

Claim:
A file management system comprising: a plurality of client terminals; and a file management apparatus that is connected to the plurality of client terminals via a network, wherein at least one of the client terminals includes: a display control unit that displays, on a display screen of a display unit, a display area related to computer program that provides a transmission function; a file-information acquiring unit configured to acquire, when a displayed graphical object that represents a file is grabbed by a pointer of an operating device and dragged to and dropped on the displayed area, the file represented by the displayed graphical object and file managing information that is associated with the file; and a transmitting unit that transmits the file and the file managing information acquired by the file-information acquiring unit to the file management apparatus, and the file management apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores therein the file and the file management information transmitted from the client terminal, and location information to be used for causing a symbol image of the file management information to be displayed in a matrix arrangement on the display unit; and a display control unit that displays the symbol image in a matrix arrangement on the display unit based on the location information.