INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL

• US 20080178303A1
• Filed: 08/16/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Nukaga, Masao
• Application Number:
  US11/839,715
• Publication Number:
  US 20080178303A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/33
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

A second information-processing apparatus includes a registration unit that receives log information including information concerning an operator that performed an operation with respect to a first document, time and date of the operation, and a second document obtained as a result of the operation, from a first information-processing apparatus and registers the log information in a storage unit, the registration unit, when the first document is already registered in the storage unit, further registering in the storage unit a derivation relationship indicating that the first document is a parent of the second document; and a document-providing unit that, in response to a collection instruction including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document with regard to each operator from documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit.

Claims

1. A second information-processing apparatus, comprising:

a registration unit that receives log information including information concerning an operator that performed an operation with respect to a first document, time and date of the operation, and a second document obtained as a result of the operation, from a first information-processing apparatus and registers the log information in a storage unit, the registration unit, when the first document is already registered in the storage unit, further registering a derivation relationship indicating that the first document is a parent of the second document in the storage unit; and

a document-providing unit that, in response to a collection instruction including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document with regard to each operator from documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

2. The second information-processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies, for each type of the operation in corresponding log information, the latest version document with regard to each operator from among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

3. The second information-processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies the latest version document with regard to each operator from documents having corresponding log information including a disclosure operation as the type of the operation, among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

4. The second information-processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a latest version original providing unit that, in response to an instruction for acquiring a latest version original including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document having corresponding log information in which an operator is the same as an operator in log information corresponding to a root document of a tree to which the subject document belongs, from among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

5. A computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for document provision, the program causing the computer to function as:

a registration unit that receives log information including information concerning an operator that performed an operation with respect to a first document, time and date of the operation, and a second document obtained as a result of the operation, from a first information-processing apparatus, and registers the log information in a storage unit, the registration unit, when the first document is already registered in the storage unit, further registering in the storage unit a derivation relationship indicating that the first document is a parent of the second document; and

a document-providing unit that, in response to a collection instruction including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document with regard to each operator from documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

6. The computer-readable medium according to claim 5, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies, for each type of the operation in corresponding log information, the latest version document with regard to each operator from among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

7. The computer-readable medium according to claim 5, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies the latest version document with regard to each operator from documents having corresponding log information including a disclosure operation as the type of the operation, among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

8. The computer-readable medium according to claim 5, wherein the program causes the computer to further function as:

a latest version original providing unit that, in response to an instruction for acquiring a latest version original including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document having corresponding log information in which an operator is the same as an operator in log information corresponding to a root document of a tree to which the subject document belongs, from among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

9. An information-processing system comprising a first information-processing apparatus and a second information-processing apparatus,

the first information-processing apparatus including a sending unit that sends log information including information concerning an operator that performed an operation with respect to a first document, time and date of the operation, and a second document obtained as a result of the operation;

and

the second information-processing apparatus including a registration unit that receives the log information from the first information-processing apparatus and registers the log information in a storage unit, the registration unit, when the first document is already registered in the storage unit, further registering in the storage unit a derivation relationship indicating that the first document is a parent of the second document, and a document-providing unit that, in response to a collection instruction including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document with regard to each operator from documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

10. The information-processing system according to claim 9, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies, for each type of the operation in corresponding log information, the latest version document with regard to each operator from among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

11. The information-processing system according to claim 9, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies the latest version document with regard to each operator from documents having corresponding log information including a disclosure operation as the type of the operation, among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

12. The information-processing system according to claim 9, wherein the second information-processing apparatus further including:

a latest version original providing unit that, in response to an instruction for acquiring a latest version original including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document having corresponding log information in which an operator is the same as an operator in log information corresponding to a root document of a tree to which the subject document belongs, from among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

13. A method for document provision, comprising:

receiving log information including information concerning an operator that performed an operation with respect to a first document, time and date of the operation, and a second document obtained as a result of the operation, from a first information-processing apparatus;

registering the log information in a storage unit;

when the first document is already registered in the storage unit, further registering a derivation relationship indicating that the first document is a parent of the second document in the storage unit; and

in response to a collection instruction including information that specifies a subject document, specifying and providing a latest version document with regard to each operator from documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein

the registering the log information in the storage unit includes registering in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the specifying and providing the latest version document includes specifying, for each type of the operation in corresponding log information, the latest version document with regard to each operator from among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein

the registering the log information in the storage unit includes registering in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the specifying and providing the latest version document includes specifying the latest version document with regard to each operator from documents having corresponding log information including a disclosure operation as the type of the operation, among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

16. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

in response to an instruction for acquiring a latest version original including information that specifies a subject document, specifying and providing a latest version document having corresponding log information in which an operator is the same as an operator in log information corresponding to a root document of a tree to which the subject document belongs, from among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

17. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave for enabling a computer to perform a process for document provision, the computer data signal causing the computer to function as:

a registration unit that receives log information including information concerning an operator that performed an operation with respect to a first document, time and date of the operation, and a second document obtained as a result of the operation, from a first information-processing apparatus, and registers the log information in a storage unit, the registration unit, when the first document is already registered in the storage unit, further registering in the storage unit a derivation relationship indicating that the first document is a parent of the second document; and

a document-providing unit that, in response to a collection instruction including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document with regard to each operator from documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.

18. The computer data signal according to claim 17, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies, for each type of the operation in corresponding log information, the latest version document with regard to each operator from among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

19. The computer data signal according to claim 17, wherein

the registration unit registers in the storage unit the log information further including information concerning a type of the operation, and

the document-providing unit specifies the latest version document with regard to each operator from documents having corresponding log information including a disclosure operation as the type of the operation, among documents included in a tree to which the subject document belongs.

20. The computer data signal according to claim 17, wherein the computer data signal causes the computer to further function as:

a latest version original providing unit that, in response to an instruction for acquiring a latest version original including information that specifies a subject document, specifies and provides a latest version document having corresponding log information in which an operator is the same as an operator in log information corresponding to a root document of a tree to which the subject document belongs, from among trees formed by derivation relationships stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the log information.