Patent ID: 8032505

Claim:
A relative document representing system comprising: a first storage that stores an arranging position of each of a plurality of electronic documents arranged in each of a plurality of workspaces; a receiving unit that receives a designation of a target electronic document from a user on a display screen formed based on display information, the display information being produced by referring to information stored in the first storage with respect to one workspace selected from the plurality of workspaces, each of the electronic documents being arranged at an arranging position corresponding to the one workspace; a specifying unit that specifies an interest workspace, in which an electronic document regarded as an identical electronic document to the target electronic document has been arranged by referring to the information stored in the first storage, the interest workspace being other than the one workspace in which the target electronic document is arranged; a calculating unit that calculates relevancy degrees of each of the electronic documents with respect to the target electronic document within the interest workspace based on an arranging position of each of the electronic documents within the interest workspace specified by the specifying unit and an arranging position of an electronic document which is regarded as an identical electronic document to the target electronic document within the interest workspace; and a representing unit that represents information indicating an electronic document related to the target electronic document among each of the electronic documents based on the relevancy degrees of each of the electronic documents calculated by the calculating unit with respect to the target electronic document.