Document processing system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKazuyuki Marukawa
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Abstract
A document processing system and method are disclosed which are capable of performing inverse retrieval in response to a request issued by a user and providing retrieved document data to the user. Characteristic information indicating a specified electronic document or category is transmitted from a terminal device to a document providing device. The document providing device retrieves electronic documents related to the characteristic information from electronic documents stored in a database. Information about the retrieved electronic documents, such as electronic documents themselves or a list of the retrieved electronic documents, is transmitted from the document providing device to the terminal device.
Claims17
A terminal device comprising:
- categorizing means for categorizing electronic documents, wherein each electronic document is categorized into one of a plurality of categories according to a characteristic of said each electronic document;
- communication means for communicating with a document providing device;
- specification information input means for specifying one of the electronic documents categorized in one of said categories or specifying one of said categories;
- and
- control means for controlling said communication means so as to transmit, to said document providing device, the electronic document specified by said specification information input means or characteristic information indicating the characteristic of the category specified by said specification information input means.
A document processing system comprising a terminal device and a document providing device,
- said terminal device comprising:
- categorizing means for categorizing electronic documents, wherein each electronic document is categorized into one of a plurality of categories according to a characteristic of said each electronic document;
- communication means for communicating with said document providing device;
- specification information input means for specifying one of the electronic documents categorized in one of said categories or specifying one of said categories;
- and
- control means for controlling said communication means so as to transmit, to said document providing device, the electronic document specified by said specification information input means or characteristic information indicating the characteristic of the category specified by said specification information input means,
- said document providing device comprising:
- a database for storing a plurality of electronic documents;
- retrieval means for retrieving a desired electronic document from the electronic documents stored in said database;
- communication means for communicating with said terminal device;
- and
- control means for controlling said communication means and said retrieval means such that when said communication means receives said characteristic information, said retrieval means retrieves the electronic document related to said characteristic information from the electronic documents stored in said database, and said communication means transmits information associated with the retrieved electronic document to said terminal device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.