Processing instructions in a changed document object

• US 8,055,998 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2009
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kashioka, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Queler; Adam M
• Application Number:
  US12/467,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20090287993A1
• Time in Patent Office: 905 Days
• Field of Search: 715/229, 715/204, 707/638, 358/3.28
• US Class Current: 715/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A main control unit determines whether or not a previous version with which comparison is to be made exists regarding a document stored in a session storage unit. Next, confirmation is made regarding whether or not there is difference between both compared objects, and the control unit determines whether or not there is difference. The main control unit then executes an action embedded in the attributes of the object data. The object data with difference that has been saved in the session information storage unit is saved in a document information storage unit.

Claims

1. A management device for managing document information comprising:

an extracting unit configured to extract an object from the document information;

a comparison unit configured to compare first and second objects extracted from the document information, a first object having been extracted by the extracting unit from document information of a current version of a document, and a second object corresponding to the first object having been extracted from document information of a previous version of the document, and to determine whether there is a change between the first and second objects; and

a processing unit configured to perform a process, based on instructions included in the changed object determined by the comparison unit.

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

a storing unit configured to store the object compared by the comparison unit in a manner correlated with the current version information.

3. The management device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an obtaining unit configured to obtain user information;

wherein the processing executed by the processing unit is transmission of an e-mail to the address correlated with the user information of a user who has input the information of the current version obtained by the obtaining unit.

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

an outputting unit configured to notify the version of the document information, and an object stored in the storing unit in a manner correlated with each version, which object has changed.

5. The management device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a determining unit configured to, in a case where information instructing execution of particular processing included in a plurality of objects extracted from the document information of the current version includes the specification of an order for performing the particular processing, determine whether to execute the particular processing according to the order;

wherein in a case where determination is made that the particular processing should not be executed by the determining unit, the particular processing is not executed by the processing unit, and in a case where determination is made that the particular processing should be executed by the determining unit, the particular processing is executed by the processing unit.

6. A management method for a management device for managing document information, comprising the steps of:

extracting of an object from the document information;

comparing of first and second objects extracted from the document information, a first object having been extracted in the extracting from document information of a current version of a document, and a second object corresponding to the first object having been extracted from document information of a previous version of the document, and determining whether there is a change between the first and second objects; and

performing a process based on instructions included in the changed object determined in the comparison.

7. The management method according to claim 6, further comprising the step of:

storing the object, distinguished in the comparison, in a storing unit in a manner correlated with the current version information.

8. The management method according to claim 6, further comprising the step of:

obtaining user information;

wherein the processing executed in the obtaining is transmission of an e-mail to the address correlated with the user information of a user who has input the information of the current version obtained in the obtaining.

9. The management method according to claim 6, further comprising the step of:

outputting the version of the document information, and an object stored in the storing unit in a manner correlated with each version, which object has changed, to notify the version of the document information and the object.

10. The management method according to claim 6, further comprising the step of:

determining, in a case where information instructing execution of particular processing included in a plurality of objects extracted from the document information of the current version and which information instructing execution includes the specification of an order for performing the particular processing, whether to execute the particular processing according to the order;

wherein in a case where determination is made that the particular processing should not be executed in the determining, the particular processing is not executed in the processing, and in a case where determination is made that the particular processing should be executed in the determining, the particular processing is executed by the processing.

11. A computer-readable storage medium in which a program for realizing the management method according to claim 6 is stored.