US 8,015,164 B2Granted

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorYoshinobu Hamada

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Abstract

An object of this invention is to allow a user to easily confirm whether the access right is set within a desired range in a system which can set the access right. To achieve the object, according to this invention, an information processing apparatus includes a unit which stores a user ID in correspondence with user attribute information, a unit which holds the user ID of an accessible user in correspondence with each file or each folder, a unit which provides a display for selecting a user accessible to the file by using the attribute information when storing the file in the folder, a unit which determines whether the user ID corresponding to the selected attribute information coincides with the held user ID, and a unit which informs the user of a warning when it is determined that the user IDs do not coincide with each other.

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Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus which manages a stored file, wherein the information processing apparatus is implemented by executing a computer program stored in a memory by a computer, the apparatus comprising:

a user storage unit configured to store user IDs for identifying each user, in correspondence with attribute information of each of the users;
a holding unit configured to hold user IDs of accessible users in correspondence with each of a plurality of folders;
a selection unit for prompting a user to select a new file to be stored, a destination folder into which the new file is stored, and an open range condition for the new file in the selected destination folder, wherein the selection unit is configured so that, in response to the prompting, the user can arbitrarily select the open range condition regardless of the user IDs held by said holding unit in correspondence with the selected destination folder;
an extraction unit configured to extract, from said holding unit, all user IDs accessible to the destination folder selected by said selection unit;
a first determination unit configured to compare the attribute information corresponding to each of the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, which are extracted by said extraction unit, with the open range condition selected by said selection unit, to determine whether or not, among the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, there is a user ID corresponding to attribute information that does not satisfy the selected open range condition;
an informing unit configured to inform the user of a warning without storing the new file into the selected destination folder when said first determination unit determines that, among the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, there is at least one user ID corresponding to attribute information that does not satisfy the selected open range condition;
and
a storing unit configured to store the new file into the selected destination folder when said first determination unit determines that, among the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, there is no user ID corresponding to attribute information that does not satisfy the selected open range condition.

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An information processing method of managing a stored file, comprising:

a user storage step of storing a user ID for identifying each user, in correspondence with attribute information of each of the users;
a holding step of holding user IDs of accessible users in correspondence with each of a plurality of folders;
a selection step of prompting a user to select a new file to be stored, a destination folder into which the new file is stored, and an open range condition for the new file in the selected destination folder, wherein in response to the prompting, the user can arbitrarily select in said selection step the open range condition for accessing the new file regardless of the user IDs held in said holding step in correspondence with the selected destination folder;
an extraction step of extracting, from the user IDs held in said holding step, all user IDs accessible to the destination folder selected in said selection step;
a first determination step of comparing the attribute information corresponding to each of the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, which are extracted in the extraction step, with the open range condition selected in the selection step and determining whether or not, among the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, there is a user ID corresponding to attribute information that does not satisfy the selected open range condition;
an informing step of informing the user of a warning without storing the new file into the selected destination folder when said first determination step determines that among the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, there is at least one user ID corresponding to attribute information that does not satisfy the selected open range condition;
and
a storing step of storing the new file into the selected destination folder when the first determination step determines that, among the user IDs accessible to the selected destination folder, there is no user ID corresponding to attribute information that does not satisfy the selected open range condition.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.