ACCESS RIGHT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, ACCESS RIGHT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ACCESS RIGHT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

• US 20080320603A1
• Filed: 03/24/2008
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: ITO, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/053,941
• Publication Number:
  US 20080320603A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database

Abstract

An access right management apparatus, which includes: a management unit that manages permission and denial of access to an electronic document; a request reception unit that receives a request for an access right to access the electronic document; a determination unit that, when the request reception unit receives the request, determines whether or not the access to the electronic document is permitted to a requestor of the request based on the management unit; an access right provision unit that provides the access right to the requestor when the determination unit determines that the access to the electronic document is permitted to the requestor; and a changing unit that changes the denial of the access to the electronic document managed by the management unit to permission according to a history of provision of the access right to the requestor.

Claims

1. An access right management apparatus comprising:

a management unit that manages permission and denial of access to an electronic document;

a request reception unit that receives a request for an access right to access the electronic document;

a determination unit that, when the request reception unit receives the request, determines whether or not the access to the electronic document is permitted to a requestor of the request based on the management unit;

an access right provision unit that provides the access right to the requester when the determination unit determines that the access to the electronic document is permitted to the requestor; and

a changing unit that changes the denial of the access to the electronic document managed by the management unit to permission according to a history of provision of the access right to the requestor.

2. The access right management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the management unit sets permission or denial of the access to the electronic document and a priority level in the permission of the access for each of requestors; and

the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according to the priority level.

3. The access right management apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, when the access right is provided to all the requesters to whom the access to the electronic document is permitted, the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document to permission for a requestor having the next higher priority level.

4. The access right management apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a request quantity recording unit that records a quantity of access right requests received by the request reception unit,

wherein the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according to the priority level in the permission when the quantity of access right requests recorded by the recording unit satisfies a specific requirement.

5. The access right management apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising

a predicted request quantity storing unit that stores a predicted quantity of access right requests;

and

a request quantity comparison unit that compares the quantity of access right requests recorded by the request quantity recording unit with the predicted quantity stored in the predicted request quantity storing unit,

wherein the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according to the priority level in the permission when it is determined by the request quantity comparison unit that the quantity of access right requests is within an allowable range of the predicted quantity.

6. The access right management apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a provision quantity recording unit that records the quantity of access rights provided to the requestor by the access right provision unit,

wherein the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according to the priority level in the permission when the quantity of provided access rights recorded by the provision quantity recording unit satisfies a specific requirement.

7. The access right management apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a provision quantity recording unit that records the quantity of access rights provided to the requestor by the access right provision unit,

wherein the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according to the priority level in the permission when the quantity of provided access rights recorded by the provision quantity recording unit satisfies a specific requirement.

8. The access right management apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising

a predicted provision quantity storing unit that stores the predicted quantity of provided access rights;

and

a provision quantity comparison unit that compares the quantity of the provided access rights recorded by the provision quantity recording unit with the predicted quantity stored in the predicted provision quantity storing unit,

wherein the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according to the priority level in the permission when it is determined by the provision quantity comparison unit that the quantity of provided access rights is within an allowable range of the predicted quantity.

9. The access right management apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a predicted provision quantity storing unit that stores a predicted quantity of provided access rights; and

a provision quantity comparison unit that compares the quantity of the provided access rights recorded by the provision quantity recording unit with the predicted quantity stored in the predicted provision quantity storing unit,

wherein the changing unit changes the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according to the priority level in the permission when it is determined by the provision quantity comparison unit that the quantity of provided access rights is within an allowable range of the predicted quantity.

10. An access right management method comprising:

managing permission and denial of access to an electronic document;

receiving a request for an access right to access the electronic document;

determining, upon receiving the request, whether or not the access to the electronic document is permitted to a requester of the request;

providing the access right to the requester when it is determined that the access to the electronic document is permitted to the requestor; and

changing the denial of the access to the electronic document to permission according to a history of provision of the access right to the requestor.

11. A computer readable recording medium storing a access right management program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

managing permission and denial of access to an electronic document,

receiving a request for an access right to access to the electronic document;

determining, upon receiving the request, whether or not the access to the electronic document is permitted to a requestor of the request;

providing the access right to the requestor when it is determined that the access to the electronic document is permitted to the requestor; and

changing the denial of the access to the electronic document for the requestor to permission according a history of the provision of the access right to the requestor.