IP Library Granted Patent US 8,874,861
Granted Patent B2
US 8,874,861 · App. 13/016,835 · Granted Oct 28, 2014

System and method of copying electronic document and change history information

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,874,861
App. No.
13/016,835
Granted
Oct 28, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes receiving from a user a request for performing a process for copying information; executing the process for copying information in accordance with the received request; and performing control to determine whether or not copied information and a change history of original information from which the copied information is produced are to be stored in a memory in association with each other, when the process for copying information is executed, in accordance with whether or not a relationship between information relating to a user associated with the original information and information relating to a user who has made the request for performing the process for copying information satisfies a predetermined condition.

Claims (14)

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

receiving a request to copy an original electronic document;

copying the original electronic document in accordance with the received request;

determining whether a type of the copying request is a derivative-type copying request to create a new version of the electronic document or a use-type copying request to create a new electronic document from the original electronic document; and

associating the copied original electronic document with a change history of the original electronic document indicating a history of processes performed on the original electronic document in response to determining that the type of the copying request is the derivative-type copying request and associating the copied original electronic document with a new change history in response to determining that the type of the copying request is the use-type copying request.

2. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a process request receiving unit that receives a request to copy an original electronic document;

a process execution unit that copies the original electronic document in accordance with the request received by the process request receiving unit; and

an association controller that associates the copied original electronic document with a change history of the original electronic document indicating a history of processes performed on the original electronic document in response to determining that the type of the copying request is the derivative-type copying request and associates the copied original electronic document with a new change history in response to determining that the type of the copying request is the use-type copying request.

3. An image processing method comprising:

receiving a request to copy an original electronic document;

copying the original electronic document in accordance with the received request;

determining whether a type of the copying request is a derivative-type copying request to create a new version of the electronic document or a use-type copying request to create a new electronic document from the original electronic document; and

associating the copied original electronic document with a change history of the original electronic document indicating a history of processes performed on the original electronic document in response to determining that the type of the copying request is the derivative-type copying request and associating the copied original electronic document with a new change history in response to determining that the type of the copying request is the use-type copying request.

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