DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20070294313A1
• Filed: 06/19/2007
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Saitoh, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,037,030 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/122 using management policies backup systems G06F11/1446; file migration policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems

Abstract

A technique discriminates important contents and less important contents and prevents a situation where folders are occupied by less important contents to make it impossible to register important contents from taking place. A mobile printing server comprises a personal important folder 2 that stores data, a personal non-important folder 3 that stores data, a data allocation section 5 that stores received data either in the personal important folder 2 or in the personal non-important folder 3 according to an allocation rule and a management section 7 that manages the data stored in the personal important holder 2 and the data stored in the personal non-important folder 3 according to the management rules provided for the respective folders.

Claims

1. A data management apparatus comprising:

a first folder that stores data;

a second folder that stores data;

a data allocation section that stores received data either in the first folder or in the second folder according to an allocation rule; and

a management section that manages the data stored in the first holder and the data stored in the second folder according to the management rules provided for the respective folders.

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

an allocation rule definition section that redefinably defines data allocation rules to be referred to by the data allocation section.

3. The data management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the data allocation section allocates the received data either to the first folder or the second folder according to the registrar, any of the specified attributes of the document of the data, the registered address or the directive of the user that are defined as allocation rules.

4. The data management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the attributes of document includes either the type of document or the size of document.

5. The data management apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the allocation rule definition section includes a priority definition section that can define the priority to be used for the plurality of allocation rules.

6. The data management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the management section notifies the user of the registration of a data to the second folder and deletes the data registered to the second folder and specified by a directive of the user.

7. The data management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third folder that holds data;

the data allocation section being adapted to store a received predetermined data to the third folder, the management section being adapted to store the predetermined information acquired from the predetermined data stored in the third folder.

8. The data management apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the management section conducts a viewing of data information stored in the third folder for the purpose of viewing data information stored in the second folder according to the predetermined information.

9. The data management apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

when a request for a predetermined process on the data indicated by the data information stored in the third folder is received for the purpose of viewing data information stored in the second folder, the management section executes a process on the data indicated by the data information stored in the third folder according to the request for a process.

10. A data management apparatus comprising:

a first holder that stores data;

a second folder that stores data;

a data allocation section that stores received data either in the first folder or in the second folder; and

a management section that stores predetermined information acquired from the data stored in the second folder in the first folder.

11. The data management apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the management authorizes a viewing of data information of the data stored in the second folder for the purpose of viewing data information indicating a data stored in the first folder and, upon receiving a request for a predetermined process on the data indicated by the data information being viewed, executes a process on the data stored in the second folder indicated by the data information according to the request for processing.

12. A data management program for causing the computer of a data management apparatus to manage data, the program comprising:

a date allocation step that stores received data either in a first folder for storing data or in a second folder for storing data according to an allocation rule for allocating received data; and

a management step that manages the data stored in the first holder and the data stored in the second holder according to the management rules provided for the respective folders.

13. The data management program according to claim 12, further comprising:

an allocation rule definition step that redefinably defines the data allocation rules to be referred to in the data allocation step.

14. The data management program according to claim 13, wherein

the allocation rule definition step includes a priority definition step that can define the priority to be used for the plurality of allocation rules.

15. The data management program according to claim 12, further comprising:

for a third folder that holds data,

the data allocation step is adapted to store a received predetermined data to the third folder, the management step being adapted to store the predetermined information acquired from the predetermined data stored in the third folder to the second folder.

16. The data management program according to claim 15, wherein

the management step conducts a viewing of data information stored in the third folder for the purpose of viewing data information stored in the second folder according to the predetermined information.

17. The data management program according to claim 16, wherein

when a request for a predetermined process on the data indicated by the data information stored in the third folder is received for the purpose of viewing data information stored in the second folder, the management step executes a process on the data indicated by the data information stored in the third folder according to the request for a process.

18. A data management program for causing the computer of a data management apparatus to manage data, the program comprising:

a data allocation step that stores received data either in a second folder or in the third folder; and

a management step that stores predetermined information acquired from the data stored in a third folder in the second folder.