Patent ID: 8477381

Claim:
A document administration apparatus, comprising: a transmitter to transmit a document to a plurality of destinations; a memory to record status information of said transmitted document; a changer to change status information of said document recorded in said memory, according to an operation by a destination user to whom said document is transmitted; and a display that displays a listing of the document transmitted to the plurality of destinations and the status information of the transmitted document, which has been made according to the operation by at least one of the destination users, wherein the status information is used for the destination user to determine, which documents should be read or worked on preferentially based on a priority level of the document, whether the destination users have accessed the document, and how many times the destination users have sent a reply on the document, wherein the priority level of the document as shown in the display is a higher priority level between a priority level specified by a sender user and a priority level changed by the operations of the at least one of the destination users.