INFORMATION PROCESSOR, ELECTRONIC FILE MANAGING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC FILE MANAGING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20100250631A1
• Filed: 08/25/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: KAWAHARADA, Shingo
• Application Number:
  US12/547,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20100250631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/822
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/14 Details of searching files based on file metadata

Abstract

An information processor is provided, the information processor including: a layered attribute obtaining unit that obtains layered attribute information related to a storing position where an electronic file is stored; and a transmitting unit that transmits the layered attribute information obtained by the layered attribute obtaining unit to an electronic file managing device together with the electronic file, the electronic file managing device managing the electronic file.

Claims

1. An information processor, comprising:

a layered attribute obtaining unit that obtains layered attribute information related to a storing position where an electronic file is stored; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the layered attribute information obtained by the layered attribute obtaining unit to an electronic file managing device together with the electronic file, the electronic file managing device managing the electronic file.

2. The information processor according to claim 1, further comprising:

an attribute information managing unit that manages address information of the electronic file managing device to which the electronic file is transmitted by the transmitting unit,

wherein, when the storing position of the electronic file is changed, the layered attribute obtaining unit obtains new layered attribute information related to the changed storing position, and

the transmitting unit transmits the new layered attribute information obtained by the layered attribute obtaining unit to the electronic file managing device in accordance with the address information managed by the attribute information managing unit.

3. An information processor, comprising;

a receiving unit that receives an electronic file stored in an electronic file managing device, the electronic file managing device managing the electronic file;

a layered attribute obtaining unit that obtains layered attribute information related to a storing position where the electronic file received by the receiving unit is stored; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the layered attribute information to the electronic file managing device so as to register the layered attribute information obtained by the layered attribute obtaining unit based on information of the electronic file managing device in which the received electronic file is stored.

4. An information processor, comprising:

a receiving unit that receives a search word, wherein an electronic file is managed by an electronic file managing device and the managed electronic file is searched by using the search word;

a transmitting unit that transmits the search word received by the receiving unit to the electronic file managing device; and

a searched result display unit that displays layered attribute information as a searched result received from the electronic file managing device, wherein the attribute information is related to a storing position of the electronic file including the search word.

5. An electronic file managing device, comprising:

a receiving unit that receives an electronic file and layered attribute information related to a storing position of the electronic file, the electronic file being transmitted from an information processor;

an electronic file managing unit that coordinates the electronic file and the layered attribute information received by the receiving unit and that manages the electronic file and the layered attribute information received by the receiving unit;

a search unit, wherein when a search word is transmitted from the information processor, the search unit searches whether or not the layered attribute information managed in the electronic file managing unit includes the search word; and

a transmitting unit,

wherein, in a case where layered attribute information including the search word is detected as a result of a search by the search unit, the transmitting unit transmits the layered attribute information and information related to the electronic file coordinated with the layered attribute information to the information processor, and

in a case where layered attribute information including the search word is not detected, the transmitting unit transmits an effect that there is no layered attribute information including the search word to the information processor.

6. An electronic file managing system comprising;

an electronic file managing device that manages an electronic file; and

an information processor, the electronic file managing device and the information processor being connected together through a communication line,

the information processor including;

a layered attribute obtaining unit that obtains layered attribute information related to a storing position of the electronic file while the electronic file is registered in the electronic file managing device; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the layered attribute information obtained by the layered attribute obtaining unit to the electronic file managing device together with the electronic file, and

the electronic file managing device including;

a receiving unit that receives the electronic file and the layered attribute information of the electronic file transmitted from the transmitting unit of the information processor;

an electronic file managing unit that coordinates the electronic file and the layered attribute information received by the receiving unit and that manages the electronic file and the layered attribute information received by the receiving unit;

a search unit, wherein when a search word is transmitted from the information processor, the search unit searches whether or not the layered attribute information managed in the electronic file managing unit includes the search word; and

a transmitting unit,

wherein, in a case where layered attribute information including the search word is detected as a result of a search by the search unit, the transmitting unit transmits the layered attribute information and information related to the electronic file coordinated with the layered attribute information to the information processor, and

in a case where layered attribute information including the search word is not detected, the transmitting unit transmits an effect that there is no layered attribute information including the search word to the information processor.

7. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing an electronic file, the process comprising:

obtaining layered attribute information related to a storing position of an electronic file stored; and

transmitting the obtained layered attribute information to an electronic file managing device together with the electronic file, the electronic file managing device managing the electronic file.

8. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing an electronic file, the process comprising:

receiving a search word, wherein an electronic file is managed by an electronic file managing device and the managed electronic file is searched by using the search word;

transmitting the received search word to the electronic file managing device through a communication line; and

displaying layered attribute information related to a storing position of the electronic file including the search word as a searched result received from the electronic file managing device.

9. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing an electronic file, the process comprising:

receiving an electronic file and layered attribute information related to a storing position of the electronic file, wherein the electronic file is transmitted from an information processor through a communication line;

coordinating the received electronic file and the received layered attribute information of the electronic file

managing the received electronic file and the received layered attribute information of the electronic file received;

searching whether or not the managed layered attribute includes a search word, when the search word is transmitted from the information processor;

transmitting the layered attribute information and information related to the electronic file coordinated with the layered attribute information to the information processor, when layered attribute information including the search word is detected as a result of a search; and

transmitting an effect that there is no layered attribute information including the search word to the information processor, when layered attribute information including the search word is not detected.