IP Library Granted Patent US 11,106,411
Granted Patent B2
US 11,106,411 · App. 16/506,993 · Granted Aug 31, 2021

File management apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing file management program, and file management system

Inventor: Yusaku Awatsu (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
G06F3/1267G06F3/1206G06F3/1222G06F3/1238G06F21/6209
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Patent No.
US 11,106,411
App. No.
16/506,993
Granted
Aug 31, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A file management apparatus includes a generation part that generates a coded file having a content processed not to be browsed in a user terminal from a file using key information associated with identification information of the file in a case where the identification information of the file is received from the user terminal before an expiry of the file in a storage device, and a control part that performs control for transmitting the coded file generated by the generation part to the user terminal as a transmission source of the identification information of the file and, in a case where the identification information of the file is received from an information processing apparatus after the expiry of the file, causing the content of the coded file input into the information processing apparatus to be browsed using the key information by transmitting the key information associated with the identification information of the file to the information processing apparatus as a transmission source of the identification information of the file.

Claims (47)

1. A file management apparatus comprising:

a hardware processor, configured:

to receive a file from a user terminal and generate an identification information of the file in the file management apparatus in response to receiving the file;

to generate a registration information of the file using the identification information, an expiry of the file, key information associated with the identification information of the file, and a directory information of the file;

to transmit the identification information from the file management apparatus to the user terminal to notify a user of the user terminal that a registration process of the file has been completed;

to generate from the file a coded file having a content processed not to be browsed in a user terminal from a file using the key information associated with identification information of the file in a case where the identification information of the file is received from the user terminal before the expiry of the file in a storage device; and

to perform control for transmitting the coded file generated to the user terminal as a transmission source of the identification information of the file and, in a case where the identification information of the file is received from the file management apparatus after the expiry of the file causing the content of the coded file input into the file management apparatus to be browsed using the key information by transmitting the key information associated with the identification information of the file to the file management apparatus as a transmission source of the identification information of the file,

wherein the user terminal and the file management apparatus are different devices,

the user terminal and the file management apparatus are connected to a communication line, the identification information is an identifier that is uniquely associated with the file, the file from a plurality of files registered in the file management apparatus are browsed by referring to the identification information of the file, and

in a case where the registration information of the file is not present in the file management apparatus, the file is regarded to be deleted.

2. The file management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein in a case where the identification information of the file is received before the expiry of the file from the file management apparatus, the hardware processor performs control for transmitting the file associated with the received identification information to the file management apparatus as the transmission source of the identification information of the file and outputting a content of the transmitted file from the file management apparatus.

3. The file management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the hardware processor performs control for transmitting the coded file generated using the key information associated with the identification information of the file to the user terminal in association with the identification information of the file.

4. The file management apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the hardware processor performs control for transmitting the coded file generated using the key information associated with the identification information of the file to the user terminal in association with the identification information of the file.

5. The file management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the key information is an encryption key for encrypting the file, and

the hardware processor generates an encryption file obtained by encrypting the file using the encryption key as the coded file.

6. The file management apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the key information is an encryption key for encrypting the file, and

the hardware processor generates an encryption file obtained by encrypting the file using the encryption key as the coded file.

7. The file management apparatus according to claim 3 ,

wherein the key information is an encryption key for encrypting the file, and

the hardware processor generates an encryption file obtained by encrypting the file using the encryption key as the coded file.

8. The file management apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the key information is an encryption key for encrypting the file, and

the hardware processor generates an encryption file obtained by encrypting the file using the encryption key as the coded file.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a file management program causing a computer to function as the hardware processor of the file management apparatus according to claim 1 .

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a file management program causing a computer to function as the hardware processor of the file management apparatus according to claim 2 .

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a file management program causing a computer to function as the hardware processor of the file management apparatus according to claim 3 .

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a file management program causing a computer to function as the hardware processor of the file management apparatus according to claim 4 .

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a file management program causing a computer to function as the hardware processor of the file management apparatus according to claim 5 .

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a file management program causing a computer to function as the hardware processor of the file management apparatus according to claim 6 .

15. A file management system comprising:

the file management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the hardware processor performs control for switching an output process performed until an output of a content of the file depending on information received in response to identification information of the file and transmitted.

16. The file management system according to claim 15 ,

wherein the hardware processor performs control for outputting the content of the received file in a case where the file corresponding to the identification information transmitted is received as the information, and providing a notification for inputting the coded file having the content of the file coded not to be browsed using the key information in a case where the key information used in browsing the content of the file is received as the information.

17. The file management system according to claim 16 ,

wherein in a case where the input coded file is decoded using the key information, the hardware processor performs control for outputting the content of the coded file.

18. The file management system according to claim 16 ,

wherein the hardware processor performs control for deleting the key information after the input coded file is decoded.

19. The file management system according to claim 15 ,

wherein an image is used as the identification information of the file.

20. The file management system according to claim 19 ,

wherein the image is a thumbnail image in which the content of the file is reduced and is processed to be different from the original content of the file.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 17, 2021
From: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
To: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Reel/Frame 056254/0323 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2019
From: AWATSU, YUSAKU
To: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 049784/0464 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-035750 · Feb 28, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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