Information processing device, information management method, and information processing system

• US 10,270,751 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2018
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Hirakata, Satoru, Shimomoto, Ryoh, Mukasa, Shinya, Takahashi, Teruaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand, Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wyszynski, Aubrey H
• Application Number:
  US15/876,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20180145958A1
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• Field of Search: 726 6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

An information processing device that is connected to another information processing device includes a memory storing a program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the another information processing device; and a processor that performs the program so as to execute a method including the steps of receiving an acquisition request that is sent from a client device according to the first authentication information, transmitting a list including files that are accessible according to the second authentication information in association with the first authentication information of the received acquisition request, receiving an execution request to execute at least one of the files and the folders that are included in the list, and executing a process according to the execution request by using the second authentication information.

Claims

1. An information processing device that is connected to one or a plurality of other information processing devices, comprising:

at least one memory that stores a first program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the one or a plurality of other information processing devices; and

a first processor that is configured to perform the first program to;

receive user identification information from a client device,

permit the client device to access the information processing device based on the first authentication information and the user identification information,

transmit a list indicating one or more files or one or more folders to the client device, the one or more files or the one or more folders being stored in the one or more other information processing devices, which is accessible according to the second authentication information that is stored in the at least one memory in association with the first authentication information;

receive an execution request to operate at least one of the one or more files and the one or more folders that are included in the list, which is operated by the client device, and

execute the execution request from the client device, and communicate with the one or a plurality of other information processing devices, based on the execution request and the second authentication information.

2. A system including an information processing device that is connected to one or a plurality of other information processing devices, and a client device,

said information processing device comprising:

at least one memory that stores a first program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the one or a plurality of other information processing devices; and

a first processor that is configured to perform the first program to;

receive user identification information from the client device,

permit the client device to access the information processing device, based on the first authentication information and the user identification information,

transmit a list indicating one or more files or one or more folders to the client device, the one or more files or the one or more folders being stored in the one or more other information processing devices, which is accessible according to the second authentication information that is stored in the at least one memory in association with the first authentication information;

receive an execution request to operate at least one of the one or more files and the one or more folders that are included in the list, which is operated by the client device, and

execute the execution request form the client device, and communicate with the one or a plurality of other information processing devices, based on the execution request and the second authentication information,

wherein the client device includes

a second memory that stores second program, and a second processor;

wherein the second processor executes the second program to;

send a request for receiving the list indicating one or more files or one or more folders to the information processing device;

display the list on a display of the client device based on a list indicating the one or more files or one or more folders that is sent from the information processing device in response to the request for receiving,

receive an operation of the one or more files or one or more folders in the list, and

send the request for executing a process corresponding to the received operation.

3. A method performed by an information processing device that is connected to one or a plurality of other information processing devices, the information processing device including at least one memory that stores a first program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the one or plurality of other information processing devices;

and a first processor that is configured to perform the first program,

the method comprising;

receiving user identification information from a client device,

permitting the client device to access the information processing device, based on the first authentication information and the user identification information,

transmitting a list indicating one or more files or one or more folders to the client device, the one or more files or the one or more folders being stored in the one or more other information processing devices, which is accessible according to the second authentication information that is stored in the at least one memory in association with the first authentication information;

receiving an execution request to operate at least one of the one or more files and the one or more folders that are included in the list, which is operated by the client device, and

executing the execution request form the client device, and communicating with the one or a plurality of other information processing devices, based on the execution request and the second authentication information.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the information processing device is connected to a first information processing device and a second information processing device as the one or the plurality of other information processing devices,

the first information processing device is accessible based on second authentication information, and the second information processing device is accessible based on another second authentication information, said second authentication information and said another second authentication information being different from each other, and

the at least one memory is configured to store the second authentication information and the another second authentication information for each user to access the first information processing device and the second information processing device.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprising:

sending, to the client apparatus that is authorized to access the information processing device based on the first authentication information, the list indicating the one or more files or the one or more folders that are stored in the first information processing device and the list indicating the second information processing device, said first information processing device and second information processing device being accessed based on the second authentication information.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprising:

displaying the list in the client apparatus so that a list indicating the one or more files or the one or more folders that are stored in the first information processing device and another list indicating the one or more files or the one or more folders that are stored in the second information processing device are included in different folders.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprising:

receiving a request to search a file or a folder from the client apparatus,

searching, according to the request, the one or more files or the one or more folders within the list indicating the one or more files or the one or more folders that are stored in the first information processing device and the another list indicating the one or more files or the one or more folders that are stored in the second information processing device, and

sending information of searched one or more files or one or more folders to the client apparatus.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of uploading, from the client device, the one of the files or folders that are managed by the first information processing device to the second information processing device, and

uploading, to the second information processing device, the one or more files or the one or more folders that are managed by the first information processing device according to the second authentication information to access the first information processing device and another second authentication information to access the second information processing device among the second authentication information.

9. The method according to claim 3, wherein the method further includes:

accessing the one or a plurality of other information processing devices by using the second authentication information,

acquiring index information of the one or more files or the one or more folders that is stored in the one or plurality of other information processing devices upon being authorized to access the one or plurality of other information processing device, and

sending a list indicating one or more files or one or more folders based on acquired index information to the client device that is authorized to access the information processing device.

10. The method according to claim 3, wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of downloading the one or more files or the one or more folders from the client device,

acquiring the one or more files or the one or more folders to be downloaded from the one or a plurality of other information processing devices according to the second authentication information, and

transmitting the acquired the one or more files or the one or more folders to the client device.

11. The method according to claim 3, wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of outputting the one or more files or the one or more folders from the client device,

acquiring the one or more files or the one or more folders to be output from the one or a plurality of other information processing devices according to the second authentication information, and

transmitting the acquired one or more files or one or more folders to other client device.