IP Library Granted Patent US 8,001,149
Granted Patent B2
US 8,001,149 · App. 12/110,506 · Granted Aug 16, 2011

Document managing system, document use controller, document storage device, document managing method, and computer readable medium for updating index information at a storage device in response to change of index use permit/inhibit information at a document use controller

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,001,149
App. No.
12/110,506
Granted
Aug 16, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A document managing system includes: a document use controller; and a document storage device, the document use controller including: a managing unit; and an instructing information transmitting unit, and the document storage device including: an index information holding unit; an instructing information receiving unit; and an index information updating unit, wherein the index information updating unit updates an index information so as to change the permission/inhibition of the use of contents of the storage document on the basis of an identifier of a storage document included in instructing information received by the instructing information receiving unit.

Claims (10)

1. A document managing system comprising:

a document use controller that holds information about permission/inhibition of a use of an object document, the information comprising index use permit/inhibit information that determines whether or not contents of the object document are used as index information, the document use controller including:

a managing unit that coordinates and manages an identifier of the object document, the index use permit/inhibit information that determines whether or not contents of the object document are used as index information, and an identifier of a storage document corresponding to the object document; and

an instructing information transmitting unit that transmits instructing information including the identifier of the storage document coordinated with the index use permit/inhibit information to a document storage device in accordance with a change of the index use permit/inhibit information; and

the document storage device that stores a plurality of storage documents including the storage document corresponding to the object document, the document storage device including:

an index information holding unit that holds the index information including contents of the plurality of storage documents;

an instructing information receiving unit that receives the instructing information transmitted from the document use controller; and

an index information updating unit that updates the index information held by the index information holding unit,

wherein the index information updating unit updates the index information to change permission/inhibition of a use of the contents of the storage document on the basis of the identifier of the storage document included in the instructing information received by the instructing information receiving unit.

2. The document managing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the index use permit/inhibit information changes after a prescribed period elapses.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 12, 2021
From: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
To: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Reel/Frame 058287/0056 →