INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20090100525A1
• Filed: 05/18/2007
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Uchikawa, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US12/282,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20090100525A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/606 by securing the transmission between two devices or processes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32005 Automation of particular receiver jobs, e.g. rejecting unwanted calls requesting a communication from a transmitter H04N1/32771; with picture signal storage for forwarding messages H04N1/32358
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32016 according to the caller's identification, e.g. fax number H04N1/3201 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32048 Auto-dialling or Auto-calling H04N1/32053 - H04N1/32074 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4406 Restricting access, e.g. according to user identity mechanisms actuated y cards, PIN or the like in apparatus for dispensing G07F7/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/444 to a particular document or image or part thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4446 Hiding of documents or document information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An information processing apparatus capable of permitting electronic data with an access authority to be available at a transfer destination, without the access authority being lost. In a case where a received electronic document is set with access authority management information, it is determined, referring to transfer means (7007) and a file format (7009) in a rule (R(n)), whether the document can be transferred in a state that it remains set with the access authority management information. If such transfer is possible, the document is transmitted in such a state. If such transfer is not possible, the electronic document is moved to a save folder (3003a) and text data including a URI indicating a location of the save folder is created. The text data is transmitted as it is or after being converted into TIFF data to a designation specified as a transfer designation (7008).

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception device adapted to receive electronic data;

a hold device adapted to hold transfer conditions, each of the transfer conditions including information representative of a transfer destination;

a determination device adapted, in a case where an access authority has been set for the received electronic data, to make a determination based on the transfer condition as to whether or not the received electronic data is capable of being transferred in a state that it remains set with the access authority; and

a transfer control device adapted to transfer the received electronic data in a state that it remains set with the access authority to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition in a case where said determination device has determined that the received electronic data is capable of being transferred, said transfer control device being adapted to limit the received electronic data set with the access authority being transferred to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition in a case where said determination device has determined that the received electronic data is not capable of being transferred.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said transfer control device is adapted to store the received electronic data in a storage device and transfer information representative of a location of the storage device to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition in a case where said determination device has determined that the received electronic data is not capable of being transferred.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said hold device is further adapted to hold reception conditions, each of the reception conditions is made to correspond to an associated one of the transfer conditions, and wherein said determination device is adapted to make the determination as to whether or not the received electronic data is capable of being transferred in a state that it remains set with the access authority in a case where the received electronic data meets any of the reception conditions.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said transfer conditions each include information representative of a file format in which the received electronic data is to be transferred.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reception conditions each include information representative at least one of a reception method, a sender of transmission, and a subject of electronic data.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the transfer conditions further includes information representative of a transfer method, and wherein said determination device is adapted to determine whether or not the received electronic data can be transferred in a state that it remains set with the access authority based on the transfer method to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the transfer conditions further includes information representative of a file format in which the electronic data is to be transferred to the transfer destination, and wherein said determination device is adapted to determine whether or not the received electronic data can be transferred in a state that it remains set with the access authority based on the file format represented by the transfer condition.

2. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception device adapted to receive electronic data;

a hold device adapted to hold reception conditions, first transfer conditions, and second transfer conditions so that each of the reception conditions is made to correspond to an associated one of the first transfer conditions and to an associated one of the second transfer conditions, each of the first and second transfer conditions at least including information representative of a transfer destination; and

a transfer control device adapted, in a case where the received electronic data meets any of the reception conditions held by said hold device and no access authority has been set for the received electronic data, to transfer the received electronic data to a transfer destination represented by the first transfer condition corresponding to the reception condition met by the received electronic data, said transfer control device being adapted, in a case where the received electronic data meets any of the reception conditions held by said hold device and an access authority has been set for the received electronic data, to transfer the received electronic data in a state that it remains set with the access authority to a transfer destination represented by the second transfer condition corresponding to the reception condition met by the received electronic data.

9. An information processing method comprising:

a reception step of receiving electronic data;

a hold step of holding transfer conditions, each of the transfer conditions including information representative of a transfer destination;

a determination step of making, in a case where an access authority has been set for the received electronic data, a determination based on the transfer condition as to whether or not the received electronic data is capable of being transferred in a state that it remains set with the access authority; and

a transfer control step of transferring the received electronic data in a state that it remains set with the access authority to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition in a case where the determination step has determined that the received electronic data is capable of being transferred, and limiting the received electronic data set with the access authority being transferred to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition in a case where said determination step has determined that the received electronic data is not capable of being transferred.

10. An information processing method comprising:

a reception step of receiving electronic data;

a hold step of holding reception conditions, first transfer conditions, and second transfer conditions so that each of the reception conditions is made to correspond to an associated one of the first transfer conditions and to an associated one of the second transfer conditions, each of the first and second transfer conditions at least including information representative of a transfer destination; and

a transfer control step of transferring, in a case where the received electronic data meets any of the reception conditions held in said hold step and no access authority has been set for the received electronic data, the received electronic data to a transfer destination represented by the first transfer condition corresponding to the reception condition met by the received electronic data, and transferring, in a case where the received electronic data meets any of the reception conditions held in said hold step and an access authority has been set for the received electronic data, the received electronic data in a state that it remains set with the access authority to a transfer destination represented by the second transfer condition corresponding to the reception condition met by the received electronic data.

11. An information processing program for causing a computer to execute an information processing method, the method comprising:

a reception step of receiving electronic data;

a hold step of holding transfer conditions, each of the transfer conditions including information representative of a transfer destination;

a determination step of making, in a case where an access authority has been set for the received electronic data, a determination based on the transfer condition as to whether or not the received electronic data is capable of being transferred in a state that it remains set with the access authority; and

a transfer control step of transferring the received electronic data in a state that it remains set with the access authority to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition in a case where said determination step has determined that the received electronic data is capable of being transferred, and limiting the received electronic data set with the access authority being transferred to the transfer destination represented by the transfer condition in a case where said determination step has determined that the received electronic data is not capable of being transferred.

12. An information processing program for causing a computer to execute an information processing method, the method comprising:

a reception step of receiving electronic data;

a hold step of holding reception conditions, first transfer conditions, and second transfer conditions so that each of the reception conditions is made to correspond to an associated one of the first transfer conditions and to an associated one of the second transfer conditions, each of the first and second transfer conditions at least including information representative of a transfer destination; and

a transfer control step of transferring, in a case where the received electronic data meets any of the reception conditions held in said hold step and no access authority has been set for the received electronic data, the received electronic data to a transfer destination represented by the first transfer condition corresponding to the reception condition met by the received electronic data, and transferring, in a case where the received electronic data meets any of the reception conditions held in said hold step and an access authority has been set for the received electronic data, the received electronic data in a state that it remains set with the access authority to a transfer destination represented by the second transfer condition corresponding to the reception condition met by the received electronic data.