Data management apparatus, data management program and data management method

• US 8,037,030 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2007
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo; Tim T
• Assistant Examiner(s): GORTAYO, DANGELINO N
• Application Number:
  US11/764,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20070294313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,575 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1, 707/9, 707/10, 707/100, 707/104.1, 707/200, 707/205, 707/637, 707/667, 707/783, 707/803, 707/634, 707/665
• US Class Current: 707/665
• 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 mobile printing server comprising:

a first folder that stores data;

a second folder that stores data;

a third 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 so that the data stored in the first folder are data to be printed and the data stored in the second folder are data to be temporarily stored;

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

an allocation rule definition section that changes and defines the allocation rules to be referred to by the data allocation section, and includes a priority definition section that defines a priority to be used for the plurality of allocation rules,

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

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,

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,

wherein as the received data is registered as registered data in the third folder, if there is a directive for registration from a user, predetermined information is extracted from the registered data as an index which is registered to the second folder,

wherein when a user'"'"'s directive for viewing is received for viewing data in the second folder, the index is displayed, when there is a user'"'"'s directive for printing data, real data is acquired from the third folder and a printing process is executed,

wherein the third folder is accessible by a plurality of users and the first and second folders are accessible only by a specific user,

wherein when a document customized to the user or a document common to the plurality of users is received, the data allocation section allocates the received data to the third folder; and

wherein a document registered to the first folder is transferred to the second folder in response to a registration completion notification email received from a user.

2. The mobile printing server according to claim 1, wherein

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

3. The mobile printing server according to claim 2, wherein

the attribute of document includes either a type of document or a size of document.

4. The mobile printing server 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.

5. A data management program embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium causing a computer of a mobile printing server to manage data, the program comprising:

a data allocation step that stores received data either in a first folder storing data or in a second folder storing data according to an allocation rule used in allocating of received data so that the data stored in the first folder are data to be printed and the data stored in the second folder are data to be temporarily stored;

a management step that manages the data stored in the first folder and the data stored in the second folder according to management rules provided for the first and second folders; and

an allocation rule definition step that changes and defines the allocation rules to be referred to in the data allocation step, and includes a priority definition step that defines a priority to be used for the plurality of allocation rules,

wherein 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, 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,

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,

wherein as the received data is registered as registered data in the third folder, if there is a directive for registration from a user, predetermined information is extracted from the registered data as an index which is registered to the second folder,

wherein when a user'"'"'s directive for viewing is received for viewing data in the second folder, the index is displayed, when a user'"'"'s directive for printing data is received, real data is acquired from the third folder and a printing process is executed,

wherein the third folder is accessible by a plurality of users and the first and second folders are accessible only by a specific user,

wherein when a document customized to the user or a document common to the plurality of users is received, the data allocation step allocates the received data to the third folder; and

wherein a document registered to the first folder is transferred to the second folder in response to a registration completion notification email received from a user.