Document control apparatus, document control system, document control method and storage medium

• US 20050235204A1
• Filed: 06/16/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Naoyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,594,173 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/272
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

To provide a document control apparatus, a document control system, a document control method and a storage medium that are capable of providing more certain access control by the unit of document and a system (service) for allowing access in the form of charging additional charge with a fixed grace period, and are capable of supporting more flexible and certain storing service. The document control system includes a Web server, a session control part for controlling access, a job control part for controlling job execution, a document registration processing part for registering, updating and deleting a document, a document search processing part for searching an accumulated and controlled document, a document transfer processing part for transmitting and receiving document data, a user control part for controlling user information, a database control part for controlling document data, registration user, charge information and document access histories, and databases.

Claims

1. A document control apparatus for accumulating and controlling electronic documents accessible from outside comprising:

period controlling means for storing document control period information per a unit of an electronic document when registering a document;

access prohibiting means for prohibiting an access from outside to an electronic document whose document control period has expired; and

period updating means for updating said document control period per a unit of an electronic document.

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