Information processing device, information management method, and information processing system

• US 9,912,652 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Hirakata, Satoru, Shimomoto, Ryoh, Mukasa, Shinya, Takahashi, Teruaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand, Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wyszynski, Aubrey
• Application Number:
  US14/980,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20160112395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 726 6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

An information processing device that is connected to another information processing device includes a memory storing a program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the another information processing device; and a processor that performs the program so as to execute a method including the steps of receiving an acquisition request that is sent from a client device according to the first authentication information, transmitting a list including files that are accessible according to the second authentication information in association with the first authentication information of the received acquisition request, receiving an execution request to execute at least one of the files and the folders that are included in the list, and executing a process according to the execution request by using the second authentication information.

Claims

1. An information processing device that is connected to another information processing device, comprising:

a first memory that stores a first program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the another information processing device; and

a first processor that is configured to perform the first program so as to execute a method including the steps of;

receiving an acquisition request that is sent from a client device according to the first authentication information,

transmitting a list including files or folders that are stored in the another information processing device and are accessible according to the second authentication information that is stored in the first memory in association with the first authentication information of the received acquisition request;

receiving an execution request to execute a file or a folder that is included in the list, and

executing a process according to the execution request by using the second authentication information when the file or the folder according to the execution request is stored in the another information processing device.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the method further includes:

acquiring files or folders that are managed by the another information processing device according to the second authentication information that is stored in the first memory in association with the each user, and

transmitting a list information including the acquired files or folders to the client device in response to the acquisition request.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the information processing device is connected to a plurality of other information processing devices,

wherein the first memory further stores a third authentication information for the each user to access the information processing device and a plurality of fourth authentication information in association with the third authentication information for the each user to access the plurality of other information processing devices, and

wherein the method further includes transmitting a list information to the client device, said list information including files or folders that are accessible according to each of the plurality of fourth authentication information that are stored in the first memory in association with the third authentication information.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of uploading, from the client device, the at least one of the files or folders that are managed by a first information processing device among the plurality of other information processing devices to a second information processing device among the plurality of other information processing devices, and

uploading, to the second information processing device among the plurality of other information processing devices, the at least one of the files or folders that are managed by the first information processing device according to one of the plurality of fourth authentication information to access the first information processing device and another one of the plurality of fourth authentication information to access the second information processing device.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of uploading the at least one of the files or folders from the client device, and

identifying a destination of the uploading of the at least one of the files or folders according to a transmission speed of each of the plurality of other information processing devices, and

uploading the at least one of the files or folders to the identified destination of the uploading.

6. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of uploading the at least one of the files or folders from the client device, and

identifying a destination of the uploading of the at least one of the files or folders according to a file name of the at least one of the files or folders, and

uploading the at least one of the files or folders to the identified destination of the uploading.

7. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of uploading the at least one of the files or folders from the client device, and

identifying a destination of the uploading of the at least one of the files or folders according to a free space of each of the plurality of other information processing devices, and

uploading the at least one of the files or folders to the identified destination of the uploading.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the method further includes:

searching at least one of the files or folders from files or folders that are accessible according to the second authentication information and also managed by the another information processing device based on a search condition that is sent from the client device, and

transmitting information of the searched at least one of the files or folders to the client device.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of downloading the at least one of the files or folders from the client device,

acquiring the at least one of the files or folders to be downloaded from the another information processing device according to the second authentication information, and

transmitting the acquired at least one of the files or folders to the client device.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the method further includes:

receiving an execution request of outputting the at least one of the files or folders from the client device,

acquiring the at least one of the files or folders to be output from the another information processing device according to the second authentication information, and

transmitting the acquired at least one of the files or folders to the client device.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device includes a storage server and the another information processing device includes a cloud storage.

12. A method performed by an information processing device that is connected to another information processing device, said information processing device including a first memory that stores a first program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the another information processing device;

and a first processor that is configured to perform the first program, said method including the steps of;

receiving an acquisition request that is sent from a client device according to the first authentication information,

transmitting a list including files or folders that are stored in the another information processing device and are accessible according to the second authentication information that is stored in the first memory in association with the first authentication information of the received acquisition request;

receiving an execution request to execute a file or a folder that is included in the list, and

executing a process according to the execution request by using the second authentication information when the file or the folder according to the execution request is stored in the another information processing device.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium that contains a program to cause a processor to execute a method performed by an information processing device that is connected to another information processing device, said information processing device including a first memory that stores a first program, a first authentication information for each user to access the information processing device and a second authentication information in association with the first authentication information for the each user to access the another information processing device;

and a first processor that is configured to perform the first program, said method including the steps of;

receiving an acquisition request that is sent from a client device according to the first authentication information,

transmitting a list including files or folders that are stored in the another information processing device and are accessible according to the second authentication information that is stored in the first memory in association with the first authentication information of the received acquisition request;

receiving an execution request to execute a file or a folder that is included in the list, and

executing a process according to the execution request by using the second authentication information when the file or the folder according to the execution request is stored in the another information processing device.