Patent ID: 8099413

Claim:
A relative document presenting system comprising: a first storage that stores an arranging position of each of electronic documents arranged in each of a plurality of workspaces; a second storage that stores a group to which each of the electronic documents belongs; a relevancy degree calculating unit that, for each of the workspaces, calculates relevancy degrees between the electronic documents on the basis of the arranging position of each of the electronic documents in the workspaces stored in the first storage; a receiving unit that receives designation of a target electronic document from a user; a specifying unit that specifies an electronic document belonging to the same group as the target document designated by the user on the basis of the second storage; a totaling unit that, for each of the electronic documents, totals relevancy degrees between each of the electronic documents and the target electronic document and relevancy degrees between each of the electronic documents and the electronic document specified by the specifying unit in each of the workspace; a presenting unit that presents an electronic document related to the target electronic document among the electronic documents on the basis of a totaling result obtained by the totaling unit; and a correcting unit that, in a case where the target electronic document and the electronic document specified by the specifying unit are arranged in the same workspace, corrects the relevancy degrees between each of the electronic documents and the electronic document specified by the specifying unit in each of the workspaces on the basis of a position relationship between an arranging position of the target electronic document and an arranging position of the electronic document specified by the specifying unit in the workspaces, wherein the totaling unit totals the relevancy degree corrected by the correcting unit.