Document management apparatus, terminal apparatus, document management system, document management method, document browsing and editing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

• US 10,616,307 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Issued: 04/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Yayoi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chea, Philip J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ma, Wing
• Application Number:
  US14/665,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20160285778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,842 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A document management apparatus includes a first transmitting unit, a determination unit, and a second transmitting unit. The first transmitting unit transmits a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus. The determination unit determines, based on a period of time for which it is predicted that communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus is disabled, a second document which is related to the first document. The second transmitting unit transmits the second document to the terminal apparatus.

Claims

1. A document management apparatus comprising:

a hardware processor configured to;

transmit a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus;

determine, based on a period of time for which it is predicted that communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus will be disabled, a second document that is related to the first document; and

transmit the second document to the terminal apparatus in response to determining that the document management apparatus will be disabled.

2. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to determine the second document, using location information of the terminal apparatus and at least one of information on a document associated with the location information and information on a document associated with a user of the document.

3. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the period of time is predicted using location information of the terminal apparatus and radio wave condition information which associates the location information with a radio wave condition.

10. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to determine the second document in response to a document information which has a history of being downloaded within a predetermined distance from the terminal apparatus and has been accessed within three days of the user accessing the first document.

11. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to determine the second document in response to a time from the disablement of the communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus to a recovery of the communication is greater than one minute and less than three minutes and a document information which has a history of being downloaded within a predetermined distance from the terminal apparatus.

12. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to determine the second document in response to a time from the disablement of the communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus to a recovery of the communication is greater than three minutes and less than 10 minutes and a document information which has a history of being downloaded within a predetermined distance from the terminal apparatus.

13. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to determine the second document in response to a time from the disablement of the communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus to a recovery of the communication is greater than or equal to ten minutes and a document information which has a history of being downloaded within a predetermined distance from the terminal apparatus.

14. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to:

edit at least one of the first and second documents during a period of time that the communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus is disable; and

transmit, in response to the communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus is reestablished, the edited information to document management system.

15. The document management apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to delete the edited information from a storage in response to the edited document information being transmitted to the document management apparatus.

4. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a hardware processor configured to;

receive a first document, which is requested by the terminal apparatus, from a document management apparatus;

predict a period of time during which communication between the document management apparatus and the terminal apparatus will be disabled;

transmit a prediction result to the document management apparatus;

receive a second document, which is determined to be related to the first document by the document management apparatus based on the period of time, from the document management apparatus;

edit at least one of the first and the second documents; and

transmit, in response to the communication with the document management apparatus is recovered, at least one of the first and the second documents, which was edited by the hardware processor while the communication was disabled, to the document management apparatus.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to determine an order of transmission of at least one of the first and the second documents, which has been edited, using the period of time during which the communication is disabled.

6. The terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to delete the second document in response to the communication with the document management apparatus is recovered.

7. The terminal apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to receive a plurality of second documents, and wherein

an order of deletion of the second documents is determined using the period of time during which the communication was disabled.

8. A document management system comprising:

a hardware processor configured to;

transmit a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus;

predict a period of time during which communication between the terminal apparatus and a document management apparatus will be disabled;

determine, using the predicted period of time, a second document is related to the first document;

transmit the second document to the terminal apparatus; and

receive the second document.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for document management, the process comprising:

transmitting a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus;

determining, based on a period of time for which it is predicted that communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus will be disabled, a second document is related to the first document; and

transmitting the second document to the terminal apparatus.