Document management network system for managing original document information and additional information

• US 7,647,292 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2005
• Issued: 01/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Hayashi, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Wilson
• Application Number:
  US11/110,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20050240560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,727 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1, 707/3, 707 8- 9, 707/200, 707/201, 707/204, 715/234
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

A document delivery server is connected to a user terminal through a network. The document delivery server includes a transmission/reception portion, memory portions that store original document information and public additional information respectively, storage control portions that store and read out the original document information and public additional information together with the memory portions, and a browse information separation/composition portion that transmits the original document information and public additional information to the user terminal through the transmission/reception portion. The terminal includes a transmission/reception portion, a memory portion that stores personal additional information, a storage control portion that stores and reads out the personal additional information together with the memory portion, and a browse information separation/composition portion that composites the original document information and public additional information sent from the transmission/reception portion and the personal additional information read out from the memory portion.

Claims

1. A document management network system comprising:

a document delivery server with a first memory portion, a first storage control portion, and a first information processing portion; and

a terminal with an input portion that inputs a document identification and a user identification, a display portion, a second memory portion, a second storage control portion, and a second information processing portion, said terminal connected to said document delivery server through a network, wherein,

said first storage control portion is configured to write to the first memory portion and read out from the first memory portion a first information based on one of i) document identification provided by said terminal, and ii) a combination of the document identification and user identification provided by said terminal,

said first information processing portion is configured to transmit the first information read out by said first storage control portion to said terminal,

said second storage control portion is configured to write to the second memory portion and read out from the second memory portion a second information based on one of i) the document identification and ii) a combination of the document identification and the user identification,

original document content is stored in one of said first memory portion and said second memory portion as at least a portion of one of said first information and said second information,

public additional document content that can be made public and is stored as at least a portion of one of said first information and said second information,

personal additional document content is stored as at least a portion of one of said first information and said second information,

at least one of said public additional document content and said personal additional document content include at least one of markers and text, and further include a display location of the at least one of markers and text, within a display of the original document content,

said second information processing portion is configured to combine the first information transmitted from said document delivery server with the second information into a combined document for display on the display portion,

and at least one of said public additional document content and said personal additional document content is an information for combining with said original document content and editing said original document content.

2. The document management network system according to claim 1, wherein the original document content is stored in said first memory portion.

3. The document management network system according to claim 1, wherein

said first memory portion comprises an original document information memory portion, and a public additional information memory portion,

said first storage control portion comprises i) an original document information storage control portion that stores the original document content to said original document information memory portion based on the document identification and reads out the original document content from said original document information memory portion based on the document identification, and ii) a public additional information storage control portion that stores the public additional document content to said public additional information memory portion based on the document identification and the user identification and reads out the public additional document content from said public additional information memory portion based on the document identification and the user identification,

said first information processing portion is configured to transmit the original document content read out by said original document information storage control portion and the public additional document content read out by said public additional information storage control portion to said terminal, and

said second storage control portion stores the personal additional document content to said second memory portion based on the document identification, and reads out the personal additional document content from said second memory portion based on the document identification.

15. The document management network system according to claim 1,

wherein said personal additional content is used by a particular person and is released only to the particular person.

4. A document management apparatus comprising:

an input portion that inputs document identification and user identification;

a first memory portion that includes original document content;

a first storage control portion that stores the original document content into said first memory portion and reads out the original document content from said first memory portion based on the document identification;

a second memory portion that includes public additional document content that can be made public and is combinable to the original document content;

a second storage control portion that stores the public additional document content into said second memory portion and reads out the public additional document content from said second memory portion based on the document identification and the user identification;

a third memory portion that includes personal additional document content that is combinable to the original document content;

a third storage control portion that stores the personal additional document content into said third memory portion and reads out the personal additional document content from said third memory portion based on the document identification; and

an information processing means that combines the original document content read out by said first storage control portion, the public additional document content read out by said second storage control portion, and the personal additional document content read out by said third storage control portion as a combined document for display, wherein

at least one of said public additional document content and said personal additional document content include at least one of markers and text, and further include a display location of the at least one of markers and text within a display of the original document content.

5. A document management method comprising the steps of:

inputting document identification and user identification;

reading out original document content stored in a first memory means based on the document identification;

reading out public additional document content stored in a second memory means which can be made public and associated with the original document content based on the inputted document identification and the inputted user identification;

reading out personal additional document content stored in a third memory means associated with the original document content based on the inputted document identification; and

displaying the read out original document content, the read out public additional document content and the read out personal additional document content as a combined document,

wherein at least one of said public additional document content and said personal additional document content is displayed with elements of said original document content.

7. The document management method according to claim 5, wherein the original document content includes at least one of characters and figures.

8. The document management method according to claim 7, wherein the original document content includes both characters and figures.

9. The document management method according to claim 5, wherein the public additional document content and the personal additional document content including at least one of markers and text information.

10. The document management method according to claim 9, wherein the public additional document content and the personal additional document content further includes coordinate information associated with the at least one of markers and text information.

6. A program product embodied on a storage unit of a computer and comprising code that, when said program product is executed, cause said computer to perform a document management method comprising the steps of:

inputting document identification and user identification;

reading out original document content stored in a first memory means based on the document identification;

reading out public additional document content stored in a second memory means which can be made public and associated with the original document content based on the inputted document identification and the inputted user identification;

reading out personal additional document content stored in a third memory means associated with the original document content based on the inputted document identification; and

displaying the read out original document content, the read out public additional document content and the read out personal additional document content as a combined document,

wherein at least one of said public additional document content and said personal additional document content occupies a display space with elements of said original document content.

11. The document management method according to claim 6, wherein the original document content includes at least one of characters and figures.

12. The document management method according to claim 11, wherein the original document content includes both characters and figures.

13. The document management method according to claim 6, wherein the public additional document content and the personal additional document content including at least one of markers and text information.

14. The document management method according to claim 13, wherein the public additional document content and the personal additional document content further includes coordinate information associated with the at least one of markers and text information.

16. A document management apparatus comprising:

an input portion that inputs document identification and user identification;

a first memory portion that includes original document content;

a first storage control portion that stores the original document content into said first memory portion and reads out the original document content from said first memory portion based on the document identification;

a second memory portion that includes public additional document content that can be made public and is combinable to the original document content;

a second storage control portion that stores the public additional document content into said second memory portion and reads out the public additional document content from said second memory portion based on the document identification and the user identification;

a third memory portion that includes personal additional document content that is combinable to the original document content;

a third storage control portion that stores the personal additional document content into said third memory portion and reads out the personal additional document content from said third memory portion based on the document identification; and

an information processing means that combines the original document content read out by said first storage control portion, the public additional document content read out by said second storage control portion, and the personal additional document content read out by said third storage control portion as a combined document for display,

wherein said personal additional document content is used by a particular person and is released only to the particular person, and

wherein at least one of said public additional document content and said personal additional document content is an information for combining with said original document content and editing said original document content.