Patent ID: 6874124

Claim:
An electronic document processing system including a plurality of electronic document processors connected to each other by a network, wherein each of said electronic document processors comprising: reception means for receiving an electronic document transmitted from another of said electronic document processors; processing means for carrying out predetermined processing on said electronic document received by said reception means; first storage means for generating a log of said predetermined processing carried out by said processing means, and storing said log in a predetermined resource; derivative electronic document generation means for generating a derivative electronic document which is a new electronic document derived from said electronic document, according to a result of said predetermined processing carried out by said processing means; second storage means for storing information indicating a correlation between said electronic document and said derivative electronic document in a predetermined resource, when said derivative electronic document is generated by said derivative electronic document generation means; transmission means for transmitting said electronic document processed by said processing means and said derivative electronic document generated by said derivative electronic document generation means to a next one of said electronic document processors; tracking request entry means for receiving a tracking request for tracking a predetermined electronic document; and status display means for obtaining a log corresponding to said predetermined electronic document from said predetermined resource, and displaying information indicating a present status of said predetermined electronic document, when said tracking request for tracking said predetermined electronic document is made by said tracking request entry means, wherein said status display means displays a status of said derivative electronic document correlated with said electronic document of which said tracking request was made, by also referring to said information indicating said correlation between said electronic document and said derivative electronic document.