WORK FLOW SUPPORT SYSTEM, ITS METHOD, WORK FLOW SUPPORT PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH THE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To completely efficiently perform work when performing the work of an optional process in a work flow on the basis of the consensus of respective workers. SOLUTION: When investigating whether the examination claim of a patent applied in the past is to be required or not, it is preferable to obtain a conclusion based on the consensus of all inventors after the conference of all the inventors. In this case, a person automatically selected from the inventors or a person manually selected from the inventors or persons other than the inventors transmits an e-mail of contents requesting investigation work as a representative. A link to an electronic document in which working results are sequentially written by respective workers in the work flow is embedded in the e-mail and the edition (including reference) of the document can be performed by the representative and all the inventors. Thereby an evaluation result can be written by the most suitable person after a conference among the participants.