Document management apparatus and method

A method for managing documents, comprising:

• operating on a plurality of documents in response to a user's operation request;
• acquiring relation data among the plurality of documents as operation objects, the relation data including an identifier of the user, a date of an operation, a kind of the operation, and a task as an operation purpose;
• storing the relation data in a document relation data memory;
• indicating a task in response to a user's indication request;
• retrieving the relation data including the indicated task from the document relation data memory;
• assigning a value to each of the plurality of documents based on the retrieved relation data;
• and
• presenting at least one document having the largest value from among the plurality of documents.

A computer program product, comprising:

• a computer readable program code embodied in said product for causing a computer to manage documents, said computer readable program code comprising:
• a first program code to operate on a plurality of documents in response to a user's operation request;
• a second program code to acquire relation data among the plurality of documents as operation objects, the relation data including an identifier of the user, a date of an operation, a kind of the operation, and a task as an operation purpose;
• a third program code to store the relation data in a document relation data memory;
• a fourth program code to indicate a task in response to a user's indication request;
• a fifth program code to retrieve the relation data including the indicated task from the document relation data memory;
• a sixth program code to assign a value to each of the plurality of documents based on the retrieved relation data;
• and
• a seventh program code to present at least one document having the largest value from among the plurality of documents.