Groupware system providing facilitated data transfer among common and individual work areas

A groupware system comprising:

• a plurality of data processing systems connected through a network to perform a cooperative operation with shared data;
• each of said data processing systems having:
• a memory for storing group software;
• input/output management means for managing a display output to an operator and an input from the operator;
• input/output management means for managing a display output to an operator and an input from the operator;
• communication control means for controlling a procedure for communication with other operative data processing systems connected to the network;
• transmission data storage means for storing content data inputs from said input/output management means for transmission;
• a transmission destination management table for determining an address for a transmission destination, said transmission destination management table storing relationship data on relationships between positions on said display output and pieces of address data of transmission destinations;
• data transmission destination decision means referring to said transmission destination management table to find address information on the transmission destination based on a position said display output specified by the operator through said input/output management means;
• communication data creation means creating first communication data from said transmission destination address information obtained by said data transmission destination decision means and the content data to be transmitted that is stored in said transmission data storage means and transmitting the first communication data to said communication control means for output to at least one of the other operative data processing systems;
• communication data analysis means for analyzing second communication data input therein from said communication control means and for identifying and separating input content data and input address information of said input second communication data from each other;
• communication data storage means for storing said content data of said second communication data identified and separated by said communication data analysis means;
• a transfer destination management table for managing whether input content data can be transferred to respective pieces of application software in said group software memory in any one of said data processing systems;
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• data transfer destination decision means referring to said transfer destination management table according to said input address information identified and separated by said communication data analysis means to decide whether the input content data can be transferred to the application software stored in said group software memory.