DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, DOCUMENT BROWSING AND EDITING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20160285778A1
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: SHIBATA, Yayoi
• Granted Patent: US 10,616,307 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A document management apparatus includes a first transmitting unit, a determination unit, and a second transmitting unit. The first transmitting unit transmits a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus. The determination unit determines, based on a period of time for which it is predicted that communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus is disabled, a second document which is related to the first document. The second transmitting unit transmits the second document to the terminal apparatus.

Claims

1. A document management apparatus comprising:

a first transmitting unit that transmits a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus;

a determination unit that determines, based on a period of time for which it is predicted that communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus is disabled, a second document which is related to the first document; and

a second transmitting unit that transmits the second document to the terminal apparatus.

2. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines the second document, based on location information of the terminal apparatus and at least one of information on a document associated with the location information and information on a document associated with a user of the document.

3. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the period of time is predicted based on location information of the terminal apparatus and radio wave condition information which associates the location information with a radio wave condition.

4. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a first receiving unit that receives a first document, which is requested by the terminal apparatus, from a document management apparatus;

a prediction unit that predicts a period of time during which communication between the document management apparatus and the terminal apparatus is disabled;

a first transmitting unit that transmits a prediction result by the prediction unit to the document management apparatus;

a second receiving unit that receives a second document, which is determined to be related to the first document by the document management apparatus, from the document management apparatus;

an editing unit that performs editing of at least one of the first and the second documents; and

a second transmitting unit that transmits, when the communication with the document management apparatus is recovered, at least one of the first and the second documents, which was edited by the editing unit while the communication was disabled, to the document management apparatus.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second transmitting unit determines an order of transmission of at least one of the first and the second documents, which has been edited, in accordance with the period of time during which the communication is disabled.

6. The terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the editing unit deletes the second document when the communication with the document management apparatus is recovered.

7. The terminal apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the second receiving unit receives a plurality of second documents, and wherein

an order of deletion of the second documents is determined in accordance with the period of time during which the communication was disabled.

8. A document management system comprising:

a first transmitting unit that transmits a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus;

a prediction unit that predicts a period of time during which communication between the terminal apparatus and a document management apparatus is disabled;

a determination unit that determines, based on the predicted period of time, a second document which is related to the first document;

a second transmitting unit that transmits the second document to the terminal apparatus; and

a receiving unit that receives the second document.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for document management, the process comprising:

transmitting a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus;

determining, based on a period of time for which it is predicted that communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus is disabled, a second document which is related to the first document; and

transmitting the second document to the terminal apparatus.