Patent ID: 8458122

Claim:
A system for providing document management services to a terminal, said system comprising: (a) a document management application embodied in a non-transitory medium and including instructions executable by a computer to provide a plurality of application functions, the plurality of application functions including a document registration function to register documents in a document database, and an access function to retrieve a specified document, or document data for the specified document, from the document database; and (b) an application user interface apparatus configured to communicate through a network with the document management application, the application user interface apparatus including a non-transitory storage medium embodying instructions which, when executed, configure the application user interface apparatus to include: an application interface part configured to communicate through the network with the document management application, to obtain document data for the specified document; an operations user interface part configured to provide to the application user a notification user interface configured for specification, by the application user, of a notification destination of another user that is different from the application user; and a notification transmitting part configured to transmit a notification, indicating that the specified document has been accessed by the application user, from the application user interface apparatus through the network to the specified notification destination of said another user, the notification including at least a portion of the document data for the specified document, wherein the notification transmitted by the notification transmitting part includes a document viewer displaying at least a viewable portion of the specified document accessed by the application user.