File system

• US 6,529,918 B2
• Filed: 05/21/1999
• Issued: 03/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Breene, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ali, Mohammad
• Application Number:
  US09/316,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20020023071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.9, 358/1.16, 358/1.13, 358/1.12, 711/162, 710/5, 714/6, 714/722, 345/156, 345/593, 345/545, 345/601, 345/215, 703/23, 707/101, 707/104.1, 707/205
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2179 Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2187 with image input from a plurality of different locations or from a non-central location, e.g. from one or more users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/001 Sharing resources, e.g. processing power or memory, with a connected apparatus or enhancing the capability of the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3243 of type information, e.g. handwritten or text document
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99956 File allocation

Abstract

According to the a processing command for the copy function or the like, the copying machine sends the processing conditions like the user ID or the coping density as appended data along with the document data to the server through the Intranet. The server 12 accumulates the document data in the infinite memory server and Web IMS and simultaneously stores the accumulated addresses and other appended data in relation to each of the user IDs in a retrieval possible way in the database inside the hard disk drive. When the document data is to be reused, the server displays the appended data so that it can be easily selected and sends the selected appended data along with the document data to the copying machine.

Claims

1. A file system applied to processing unit having a copying function for copying data from a document, said file system comprising:

a memory;

an accumulation managing unit configured to accumulate and store in the memory both the data copied from the document and a reading mode used by the processing unit to copy the data from the document, and configured to correlate the data copied from the document together with the reading mode; and

an output managing unit configured to display the reading mode correlated with the copied data stored in the memory, and configured to read and output the copied data stored in the memory correlated with the reading mode when the reading mode is selected from the display,

wherein the reading mode corresponds to at least one of

     1) a document fed by an automatic document feeder included in the processing unit,

     2) a sheet document manually placed on a read position including in the processing unit, and

     3) a book document manually placed on the read position.

2. A file system according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit has a document pressing unit configured to press the document manually placed on the read position.

3. A file system according to claim 2, wherein the reading mode further corresponds to an open/close action of said document pressing unit.

4. A file system according to claim 1, wherein said output managing unit prepares a reduced image of the copied data and displays the reduced image with the corresponding reading mode on a display unit.

5. A file system according to claim 1, wherein said accumulation managing unit cancels the accumulation of the copied data when it receives an accumulation avoidance instruction before the copied data is accumulated in said memory or during accumulation thereof.

6. A file system applied to a processing unit having a copying function for copying data from a document, said file system comprising:

a memory;

an accumulation managing unit configured to accumulate and store in the memory both the data copied from the document and a reading mode used by the processing unit to copy the data from the document, and configured to correlate the data copied from the document together with the reading mode; and

an output managing unit configured to display the reading mode correlated with the copied data stored in the memory, and configured to read and output the copied data stored in the memory correlated with the reading mode when the reading mode is selected from the display,

wherein the processing unit has a document pressing unit configured to press a document manually placed on a read position,

wherein the reading mode corresponds to the document pressed against the read position, and

wherein the reading mode further corresponds to an open/close action of said document pressing unit.