US 2014/0195481 A1 · CONTENT MANAGING APPARATUS AND CONTENT MANAGING METHOD

Abstract

A content managing apparatus according to this disclosure includes: a content information editing unit newly adding first content information to a content managing unit; operation history information editing unit adding first operation history information to an operation history managing unit when second content information identifying a second content item used in the editing operation of the first content item is stored in a DB unit; and an associating unit storing information indicating a parent-child relationship of the first content item and the second content item and information for associating the first operation history information with the first content information and the second content information, into an association management region included in each of the first content information and the second content information in the content managing unit when the first operation history information is added by the operation history information editing unit.

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Dependent claims

A content managing apparatus for managing a content item using a storage unit including a content information management region and an operation history management region, the content managing apparatus comprising:

a content information editing unit configured to newly add first content information for identifying a first content item to the content information management region;
an operation history information editing unit configured to add, to the operation history management region, first operation history information indicating history of an editing operation performed on the first content item, when second content information for identifying a second content item is stored in the storage unit, the second content item being used in the editing operation performed on the first content item and being different from the first content item;
and
an associating unit configured to store (i) information indicating a parent-child relationship between the first content item and the second content item and (ii) information for associating the first operation history information with the first content information and the second content information, into an association management region included in each of the first content information and the second content information in the content information management region, when the first operation history information is added by the operation history information editing unit.

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A content managing method performed by a content managing apparatus which is connected to a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus and manages a content item held by the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus, the content managing method comprising:

managing information items including (i) first content information for identifying a first content item, (ii) second content information for identifying a second content item which is used in an editing operation performed on the first content item and different from the first content item, (iii) information indicating a parent-child relationship between the first content item and the second content item, and (iv) information for associating the first operation history information with the first content information and the second content information, the first operation history information indicating history of the editing operation performed on the first content item;
and
when a transmission request for the first content item is received from the first communication apparatus, transmitting at least one of the first content item and the second content item to one of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus, using the information items managed in the managing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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