Patent ID: 7127476

Claim:
A computer-implemented document processing and management method comprising the steps of: storing received document data; urging input of a viewing instruction to view document data stored in the document data storage step; extracting the document data as a target to which the viewing instruction is issued, from the document data storage step when the document data viewing instruction is input through the instruction input step, and which stores the document data as information for a viewed document history associated with statistical numbers, such as a number of times of issuing viewing instructions and a time when the document is viewed; and analyzing the statistical numbers associated with the viewed document history information stored in the viewing history storage step, and extracting any document data for viewed document history information as related document data from the document data storage step based on the analysis, the extracted document data having statistical numbers that are approximate to those of the document data as a target to which the viewing instruction is issued by the instruction input step.