DOCUMENT ASSOCIATION DEVICE, DOCUMENT ASSOCIATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20140019852A1
• Filed: 02/21/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NUMATA, Kenichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,372,843 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A document association device includes a document memory, a reference operation receiving unit, an editing operation receiving unit, an operation memory, and an association unit. The document memory stores one or more electronic documents each including plural elements. The reference operation receiving unit receives a reference operation for one or more elements in an electronic document stored in the document memory. The editing operation receiving unit receives an editing operation for one or more elements in an electronic document stored in the document memory. The operation memory stores information on a received operation. When the editing operation receiving unit receives an editing operation after the reference operation receiving unit receives a reference operation, the association unit associates one or more elements targeted by the reference operation with one or more elements targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with information stored in the operation memory.

Claims

1. A document association device comprising:

a document memory that stores one or more electronic documents each including a plurality of elements;

a reference operation receiving unit that displays on a screen a first group of elements included in an electronic document stored in the document memory and that receives a reference operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the first group of elements;

an editing operation receiving unit that displays on the screen a second group of elements included in an electronic document stored in the document memory and that receives an editing operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the second group of elements;

an operation memory that stores information indicating that an operation has been received; and

an association unit that, when the editing operation receiving unit receives an editing operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the second group of elements after the reference operation receiving unit receives a reference operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the first group of elements, associates the one or more elements targeted by the reference operation in the first group of elements with the one or more elements targeted by the editing operation in the second group of elements, in accordance with information stored in the operation memory indicating that the editing operation has been received and information stored in the operation memory indicating that the reference operation has been received.

2. The document association device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reference score memory that stores a relevance score for each type of reference operation; and

a relevance calculation unit that calculates a relevance between elements associated with each other by the association unit, the elements being an element targeted by the reference operation and an element targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with a relevance score corresponding to the type of the reference operation.

3. The document association device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an editing score memory that stores a relevance score for each type of editing operation,

wherein the relevance calculation unit calculates a relevance between elements associated with each other by the association unit, the elements being an element targeted by the reference operation and an element targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with a relevance score corresponding to the type of the reference operation and in accordance with a relevance score corresponding to the type of the editing operation.

4. The document association device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an editing score memory that stores a relevance score for each type of editing operation; and

a relevance calculation unit that calculates a relevance between elements associated with each other by the association unit, the elements being an element targeted by the reference operation and an element targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with a relevance score corresponding to the type of the editing operation.

5. The document association device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a reference frequency recording unit that records, for each element of each electronic document stored in the document memory, a reference frequency of the element indicating the number of times the element has been associated as an element targeted by the reference operation,

wherein the relevance calculation unit calculates a relevance between elements associated with each other by the association unit, the elements being an element targeted by the reference operation and an element targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with a reference frequency of the element targeted by the reference operation.

6. The document association device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a reference frequency recording unit that records, for each element of each electronic document stored in the document memory, a reference frequency of the element indicating the number of times the element has been associated as an element targeted by the reference operation,

wherein the relevance calculation unit calculates a relevance between elements associated with each other by the association unit, the elements being an element targeted by the reference operation and an element targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with a reference frequency of the element targeted by the reference operation.

7. The document association device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a reference frequency recording unit that records, for each element of each electronic document stored in the document memory, a reference frequency of the element indicating the number of times the element has been associated as an element targeted by the reference operation,

wherein the relevance calculation unit calculates a relevance between elements associated with each other by the association unit, the elements being an element targeted by the reference operation and an element targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with a reference frequency of the element targeted by the reference operation.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

storing one or more electronic documents, each including a plurality of elements, in a document memory;

displaying on a screen a first group of elements included in an electronic document stored in the document memory;

receiving a reference operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the first group of elements;

displaying on the screen a second group of elements included in an electronic document stored in the document memory;

receiving an editing operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the second group of elements;

storing information indicating that an operation has been received in an operation memory; and

upon receiving an editing operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the second group of elements after receiving a reference operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the first group of elements, associating the one or more elements targeted by the reference operation in the first group of elements with the one or more elements targeted by the editing operation in the second group of elements, in accordance with information stored in the operation memory indicating that the editing operation has been received and information stored in the operation memory indicating that the reference operation has been received.

9. A document association method comprising:

storing one or more electronic documents, each including a plurality of elements, in a document memory;

displaying on a screen a first group of elements included in an electronic document stored in the document memory;

receiving a reference operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the first group of elements;

displaying on the screen a second group of elements included in an electronic document stored in the document memory;

receiving an editing operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the second group of elements;

storing information indicating that an operation has been received in an operation memory; and

upon receiving an editing operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the second group of elements after receiving a reference operation which is targeted at one or more elements in the first group of elements, associating the one or more elements targeted by the reference operation in the first group of elements with the one or more elements targeted by the editing operation in the second group of elements, in accordance with information stored in the operation memory indicating that the editing operation has been received and information stored in the operation memory indicating that the reference operation has been received.