Document processor, document processing method and storage medium storing document processing program

• US 20060005117A1
• Filed: 03/08/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Kei, Yamashita, Akio
• Granted Patent: US 7,653,872 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A document processor has a function of attaching additional information to an electronic document and a function of associating linked information with the additional information. The document processor includes a display unit that displays the electronic document, the additional information, and the linked information, a judging unit that judges whether or not the linked information has changed since it was last referred to by a user, and a display control unit that controls the display unit so that a display state of the additional information varies according to the judgment result from the judging unit.

Claims

1. A document processor for managing an electronic document, comprising:

association means for attaching an annotation to a document;

display means for displaying the document and the annotation;

judging means for judging whether the annotation has changed since the document was last viewed by a user; and

control means for indicating to the user when the annotation has changed since the document was last viewed by the user.

2. The document processor according to claim 1, wherein the control means indicates to a user when the annotation has changed by one of:

changing a color of the changed annotation, changing a luminance of the changed annotation, and blinking a display of the changed annotation.

3. The document processor according to claim 1, further comprising:

linking means for linking additional information to the annotation.

4. The document processor according to claim 3, wherein the additional information is a message on a bulletin board system.

5. The document processor according to claim 4, further comprising:

updating means for updating the annotation when a new message, responding to the original message linked to the annotation, is added on the bulletin board system, such that the updating means links the annotation to the new message.

6. The document processor according to claim 4, further comprising:

updating means for adding a new annotation in proximity to the original annotation, when a new message, related to the original message linked to the original annotation, is added on the bulletin board system,

wherein the linking means links the new annotation to the new message.

8. The document processor according to claim 1, wherein the controller indicates to a user when the annotation has changed by one of:

changing a color of the changed annotation, changing a luminance of the changed annotation, and blinking the display of the changed annotation.

9. The document processor according to claim 1, wherein the controller links additional information to the annotation.

10. The document processor according to claim 9, wherein the additional information is a message on a bulletin board system.

11. The document processor according to claim 10, wherein the controller updates the annotation when a new message, responding to the original message linked to the annotation, is added on the bulletin board system, such that the controller links the annotation to the new message.

12. The document processor according to claim 10, wherein

the controller adds a new annotation in proximity to the original annotation, when a new message, related to the original message linked to the original annotation, is added on the bulletin board system, and

the controller links the new annotation to the new message.

7. A document processor for managing an electronic document, comprising:

a controller which attaches an annotation to a document;

a display which displays the document and the annotation; and

a judging unit which judges whether the annotation has changed since the document was last viewed by a user;

wherein the controller indicates to a user when the annotation has changed since the document was last viewed by the user.

13. A document processing method, comprising:

attaching an annotation to a document;

displaying the document and the annotation;

judging whether the annotation has changed since the document was last viewed by a user;

indicating to the user when the annotation has changed since the document was last viewed by the user.

14. The document processing method according to claim 13, wherein indicating to the user when the annotation has changed comprises one of changing a color of the annotation, changing a luminance of the annotation, and blinking a display of the annotation.

15. The document processing method according to claim 13, further comprising:

linking additional information to the annotation.

16. The document processing method according to claim 15, wherein the additional information is a message on a bulletin board system.

17. The document processing method according to claim 16, further comprising:

when a new message, responding to the original message linked to the annotation, is added on the bulletin board system;

linking the annotation to the new message.

18. The document processing method according to claim 16, further comprising:

when a new message, related to the original message linked to the annotation, is added on the bulletin board system;

adding a new annotation, in proximity to the original annotation, and

linking the new annotation to the new message.