SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SEARCH APPARATUS

• US 20090300005A1
• Filed: 05/27/2009
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Itoh, Fumiaki, Ishiwata, Hidenori
• Granted Patent: US 9,104,727 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24534 Query rewriting; Transformation

Abstract

A method for controlling a search apparatus that searches a plurality of data each having an attribute value for each attribute item according to a search condition defined by the attribute value, the method includes detecting a change of the attribute value of one or more data of the plurality of data, changing the search condition including the changed attribute value according to the detected change of the attribute value, and performing a search according to the changed search condition.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a search apparatus that searches a plurality of data each having an attribute value for each attribute item according to a search condition defined by the attribute value, the method comprising:

detecting a change of the attribute value of one or more data of the plurality of data;

changing the search condition including the changed attribute value according to the detected change of the attribute value; and

performing a search according to the changed search condition.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the search condition is a condition of the search folder indicating data that meets the search condition from among the plurality of data.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising changing the data indicated by the search folder based on the change of the search condition.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising, when detecting the change of the attribute value, changing the search condition according to the attribute value before being changed and the attribute value after being changed.

5. The method according to claim 2, further comprising, when detecting the change of the attribute value of the data indicated by the search folder, confirming whether the search condition of the search folder includes the attribute value and, if includes, changing the search condition.

6. The method according to claim 2, further comprising, when detecting a change of an attribute value of data included in a specified folder and subordinate folders thereof in a tree structure, changing the search condition according to the attribute value before being changed and the attribute value after being changed.

7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising, when detecting a change of all data to a same attribute value, confirming whether the search condition includes the attribute value and, if includes, changing the search condition.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

presenting a search condition; and

presenting to a user a target search folder or the changed search condition for the search folder.

9. A search apparatus that searches a plurality of data each having an attribute value for each attribute item according to a search condition defined by the attribute value, the search apparatus comprising;

an attribute value change detection unit configured to detect a change of the attribute value of one or more data of the plurality of data;

a search condition change unit configured to change the search condition according to the change detected by the attribute value change detection unit; and

a search unit configured to search according to the search condition changed by the search condition change unit.

10. A computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute a method for controlling a search apparatus that searches a plurality of data each having an attribute value for each attribute item according to the search condition defined by the attribute value, the method comprising:

detecting a change of the attribute value of one or more data of the plurality of data;

changing the search condition including the changed attribute value based on the detected change of the attribute value; and

performing a search according to the changed search condition.