Electronic filing system

Abstract

The electronic filing system used in an embodiment of the present invention, which is an electronic filing system provided with a document file presentation means for presenting a user with a list of saved document files, is provided with a cost table specifying costs incurred by printing or communication in accordance with print configuration or communication configuration conditions and a calculation means for calculating costs incurred by printing or communication by referring to the cost table. Here, the calculation means is adapted to refer to the cost table to calculate the costs incurred by printing or communication in accordance with a current print configuration or communication configuration in association with icons of the document files displayed as the list by the document file presentation means and display the calculated costs as the costs incurred by printing or communicating the document files corresponding to the icons.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.