Patent ID: 7724249

Claim:
A terminal equipment for managing a procedure which includes transmitting a document to an external terminal, comprising: receiving means for receiving a plurality of document files from a user of the terminal equipment, each of the plurality of document files having a document name; storing means for storing document management information which defines a relation between a procedure name identifying a procedure and one or more document files to be required in the procedure, each document file being identified by the document name; selecting means for selecting one document file from among the received plurality of document files; detecting means for detecting the document name of the selected document file, detecting a procedure name to identify a procedure that the user of the terminal equipment is going to execute corresponding to the detected document name of the selected document file, checking by using the document management information stored in said storing means whether or not each of the received plurality of document files belongs to the same procedure as the one to which the selected document file belongs based on a document name of each of the received plurality of documents files, and detecting one or more document files belonging to the same procedure as the one to which the selected document file belongs from among the received plurality of document files; collecting means for collecting the selected document file selected by said selecting means and the detected document files detected by said detecting means; and transmitting means for transmitting the collected one or more document files to an external terminal.