JP2016126583A - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, control method thereof, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism for managing document data and annotation separately, to appropriately manage documents.MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM: A client terminal transmits document data acquired from an information processing apparatus, with annotation added thereto, to be uploaded to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus extracts annotation of the received document data, and stores it in association with the document data with the extracted annotation on the information processing apparatus, when it has not been stored in association with different annotation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a control method thereof, and a program.

  Document data stored in a server that performs document management is downloaded to a client terminal and the document data is edited.

  For example, Patent Document 1 describes that an annotation is added at a client terminal, and the annotation once added is reused as a template according to the frequency of the addition.

JP 2009-3596 A

  One document data may be reviewed by a plurality of users. When each user downloads document data to their client terminal, edits and adds annotations, and uploads document data to the server, multiple similar edits and annotations may be added. Management of contents becomes complicated.

  In addition, since differences between a plurality of document data directly edited by a plurality of users cannot be confirmed, in some cases, a plurality of document data must be stored and managed as they are on a server.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for managing document data and annotation separately and appropriately managing the document.

  An information processing system according to the present invention is an information processing system including a client terminal and an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that stores document data. The client terminal receives document data from the storage unit of the information processing apparatus. Acquisition means for downloading and acquiring, and transmission means for adding an annotation to the document data acquired by the acquisition means and transmitting the data to be uploaded to the information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus includes the transmission means Receiving means for receiving the document data transmitted in the above, an extracting means for extracting the annotation of the document data received by the receiving means, and the annotation extracted by the extracting means added with the annotation extracted by the extracting means Associated with the document data downloaded by the acquisition means The association storage means for storing, the document data to which the annotation extracted by the extraction means is added to the association storage means, and the document data downloaded by the acquisition means stored in the storage means Determination means for determining whether an annotation different from the annotation extracted by the extraction means is stored in association with the annotation, and the association storage means does not store the other annotation in association with each other. If it is determined that the annotation is extracted, the annotation extracted by the extraction unit is stored in association with the document data from which the annotation is extracted and the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit stored in the storage unit It is characterized by that.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a mechanism for appropriately determining the display order of user icons using information on the operation date and time of the image forming apparatus.

It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the information processing system in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the hardware constitutions of various apparatuses in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a function structure of the various apparatuses in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the upload process to the server of document data in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the download process of document data in embodiment of this invention in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of an annotation extraction and registration process in the embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the detail of the registration process of annotation in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the document list screen in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the notification screen in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the document upload screen and document download screen in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the comment addition screen in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the document database in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the annotation database in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the update management database in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of document data in embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of the configuration of the information processing system of the present invention.

  In the embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the client terminal 100A, the client terminal 100B (hereinafter collectively referred to as the client terminal 100), and the server 200 are communicably connected via the communication network 150.

  The server 200 stores document data. The client terminal 100 downloads document data stored in the server 200, adds an annotation, and uploads the document data to the server 200 in order to update the document data on the server 200.

  The server 200 extracts the annotation of the document data uploaded from each client terminal 100 and stores it in association with the document data separately from the document data. The above is the description of FIG.

Next, an example of the hardware configuration of various devices in the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  In FIG. 2, reference numeral 201 denotes a CPU that comprehensively controls each device and controller connected to the system bus 204. Further, the ROM 202 or the external memory 211 is necessary to realize a BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) or an operating system program (hereinafter referred to as an OS), which is a control program of the CPU 201, or a function executed by each server or each PC. Various programs to be described later are stored.

  A RAM 203 functions as a main memory, work area, and the like for the CPU 201. The CPU 201 implements various operations by loading a program or the like necessary for execution of processing from the ROM 202 or the external memory 211 into the RAM 203 and executing the loaded program.

  An input controller 205 controls input from a keyboard (KB) 209 or a pointing device such as a mouse (not shown). A video controller 206 controls display on a display device such as a CRT display (CRT) 210. In FIG. 2, although described as CRT 210, the display device is not limited to the CRT, but may be another display device such as a liquid crystal display. These are used by the administrator as needed.

  A memory controller 207 is connected to the hard disk (HD), flexible disk (FD), or PCMCIA card slot for storing a boot program, various applications, font data, user files, editing files, various data, etc. via an adapter. The access to the external memory 211 such as a compact flash (registered trademark) memory is controlled.

  A communication I / F controller 208 is connected to and communicates with an external device via a network (for example, the LAN 600 shown in FIG. 1), and executes communication control processing on the network. For example, communication using TCP / IP is possible.

  Note that the CPU 201 enables display on the CRT 210 by executing outline font rasterization processing on a display information area in the RAM 203, for example. In addition, the CPU 201 enables a user instruction with a mouse cursor (not shown) on the CRT 210.

  Various programs to be described later for realizing the present invention are recorded in the external memory 211 and executed by the CPU 201 by being loaded into the RAM 203 as necessary. Furthermore, definition files and various information tables used when executing the program are also stored in the external memory 211, and a detailed description thereof will be described later. The above is the description of FIG.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 3, an example of a functional configuration of various apparatuses according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  The upload processing unit 311 transmits the document data to the server 200 in order to upload the document data to the server 200. The document data storage unit 321 stores uploaded document data. For example, the document data indicated by 1500 in FIG. 15 is stored in the document database 1200 (document DB 1200 / FIG. 12) held in the external memory of the server 200. As shown in FIG. 15, the document data 1500 includes character string data indicating document contents, annotations, and update identifiers described later (an identifier indicating an annotation addition state for each page).

  The document database (document DB) is a database of document data stored and managed in the server 200. The document database 1200 (FIG. 12) stores a document ID 1201 that is identification information for identifying document data, a file name 1202 of the document data, and the document data 1203 itself.

  The download processing unit 312 downloads and acquires the document data stored in the document data storage unit 321. The document data transmission unit 322 transmits the document data to be acquired by the client terminal 100 in accordance with the document data download request from the download processing unit 312.

  The annotation addition processing unit 313 performs processing for adding an annotation (adding a comment) to the document data. The upload processing unit 311 also uploads document data with the annotation added to the server 200 in response to a user operation.

  The annotation extraction unit 323 extracts the annotation so as to be separated from the document data when the annotation is blown on the uploaded document data. The annotation storage unit 324 stores the annotation extracted by the annotation extraction unit 323. For example, it is stored in the annotation database 1300 (annotation DB 1300) shown in FIG.

  A document ID 1301 of the annotation database 1300 is identification information of document data to which an annotation is added. The annotation ID 1302 is identification information of each data (annotation) registered in the annotation database 1300. A page number 1303 is a page number to which an annotation is added.

  The comment group ID 1304 is identification information indicating which annotation belongs to the same group as the annotation. The comment order 1305 is an order in which annotations (annotation comments) are added. The order is determined and inserted by the server 200 according to the date and time 1306, which is the date and time when the annotation is live (added to the document).

  The user name 1307 is the user name of the user who generated / added the annotation. It is assumed that the user name is included in the annotation and stored in the document data by the application on the client terminal 100 to which the annotation is added when the annotation is added. The comment content 1308 is the content (character string) of the comment described in the annotation. Each piece of information shown in FIG. 13 is information included in an annotation (also referred to as a tag or a tag) generated in association with a page of document data, and is uploaded by the annotation extraction unit 323 when the document data is uploaded to the server 200. It is extracted and stored on the external memory of the server 200 as one piece of information in the annotation database 1300. The above is the description of FIG.

  The annotation composition unit 325 synthesizes the annotation with the target document data when downloading the document data. The document data transmission unit 322 transmits the document data combined with the annotation by the annotation synthesis unit 325 to the client terminal 100. The display screen display unit 314 displays a notification related to the annotation of the document data. The above is the description of FIG.

<First Embodiment>
Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 10 and FIGS. 12 to 15.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 4, the flow of upload processing of document data to the server in the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  Each client terminal 100 is assumed to be in a state where login using a user name as indicated by 1307 in FIG. 13 is performed in advance.

  The upload processing unit 311 of the client terminal 100 accepts specification of document data by a user operation, and uploads (transmits) the document data to the server 200 (step S401). For example, an operation for uploading document data is accepted via the document list screen 800 and the document upload screen 1010 displayed when the client terminal 100 accesses the server 200, and the document data is transmitted to the server 200.

  FIG. 8 is a list screen of document data provided by the server 200 and stored in the external memory of the server 200 (a list screen of document data registered in the document database 1200). By accepting designation of a predetermined URL from the client terminal 100, the server 200 transmits screen information of the document list screen to the client terminal 100, and the client terminal 100 receives and displays it.

  The document list display unit 801 is a display unit for a list of document data 802 (document files) registered in the document database 1200 stored in the directory specified by the URL.

  The annotation information display unit 803 is a display unit for the annotation information of “Meeting material 1.pdf”. The annotation information display unit 804 is a display unit for the annotation information of “Meeting material 2.pdf”.

  A “download” button 805 is a button for downloading the document data 802 to the client terminal 100. An “upload” button 806 is a button for uploading document data to the server 200.

  When the CPU 201 of the server 200 acquires information indicating that the “download” button 805 has been pressed from the client terminal 100, the CPU 201 of the server 200 generates a document download screen 1000 and transmits it to the client terminal 100. The download screen 1000 is displayed on the display screen.

  When the CPU 201 of the server 200 acquires information indicating that the “upload” button 806 has been pressed from the client terminal 100, the CPU 201 of the server 200 generates a document upload screen 1010 and transmits it to the client terminal 100. The upload screen 1010 is displayed on the display screen. The above is the description of FIG.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of a document upload screen and a document download screen.

  On the document download screen 1000, the document data selected by the selection receiving unit 1001 is downloaded by receiving a pressing instruction for the “download” button 1002 (by receiving a pressing instruction for the “download” button 1002, the client terminal 100 CPU 201 transmits a download request for the selected document data to server 200).

  In the document upload screen 1010, the document data selected by the selection receiving unit 1011 is uploaded by receiving an instruction to press the “upload” button 1012 (by receiving an instruction to press the “upload” button 1012, CPU 201 transmits the selected document data to server 200). The above is the description of FIG.

  Returning to the description of FIG. The document data storage unit 321 of the server 200 receives and reads the document data, and performs a process for acquiring the document ID of the document data (step S403). The document ID is an ID assigned by the server 200 when registering document data in the document database 1200 (FIG. 12) in the process of step S407 described later.

  The document data storage unit 321 of the server 200 determines whether the document ID has been acquired from the received document data (step S404). If the document ID is already registered in the document database 1200, it is determined that the document ID can be acquired from the received document data because the document ID is assigned to the document data. In the case of document data not yet registered in the document database 1200, no document ID is assigned, so it is determined that the document ID cannot be acquired from the received document data.

  Even if the document ID corresponding to the document ID is acquired from the document data, if the document ID matching the document ID acquired from the document data is not stored in the document database 1200, the document ID is determined in step S404. Is determined not to be acquired. If a document ID that matches the document ID is stored in the document database 1200, it is determined in step S404 that the document ID has been acquired.

  Here, description will be made assuming that the document data is not registered in the document database 1200.

  If the document data storage unit 321 of the server 200 determines that the document ID cannot be acquired from the received document data (NO in step S404), the document data storage unit 321 assigns a document ID to identify the document data stored and managed in the server 200. Then (step S407), it is stored in the document database 1200 shown in FIG. 12 (step S408).

  Here, with reference to FIG. 5, the flow of the document data download process in the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  Since the processing in steps S405 to S406 in FIG. 4 is processing when the document data registered in the document database is downloaded to the server 200 again, the processing in steps S405 to S406 will be described with reference to FIG. This is performed after the description of the process.

  In FIG. 5, the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 acquires a list of document data stored in the document database of the server 200 from the server 200 in response to an operation instruction from the user, displays the list on the display screen, and selects document data. Is received, the download processing unit 312 transmits a download request for the document data to the server 200 (step S501).

  The download request timing is, for example, the timing at which an instruction to save document data in the local folder of the client terminal is received.

  The document data transmission unit of the server 200 receives a document data download request from the client terminal 100, and acquires the document ID of the document data to be downloaded from the parameter of the request (step S502).

  The annotation composition unit 325 acquires the document data specified by the target document ID from the document database 1200 and stores it in the memory (step S503). Further, the annotation information associated with the document ID of the document data is acquired from the annotation database 1300 (FIG. 13) (step S504).

  The annotation database 1300 (FIG. 13) stores annotation information extracted from the document data uploaded from the client terminal 100 in association with the document ID of the extraction source document data in the process of FIG. . The annotation extraction / registration process will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

  If no annotation is added to the document data to be downloaded, the processing in steps S505 to S507 below is skipped, and the process proceeds to step S508.

  The annotation composition unit 325 synthesizes (adds) the acquired annotation to the corresponding page (page indicated by the page number 1303 in FIG. 13) of the document data stored in the memory by the process of step S503 (step S505). When a new annotation is added, an annotation ID (random value) is assigned to the annotation, and stored in the external memory in association with the document data and the comment of the added annotation.

  Then, an update identifier 1403 that is an identifier for identifying the update state of the page with the annotation is acquired from the update management database 1400 (FIG. 14) stored in the external memory of the server 200 (step S506). The update identifier is added to the page of the document data indicated by the page number 1402 corresponding to the update identifier (step S507).

  The update management database 1400 illustrated in FIG. 14 stores an update identifier 1403 that is an identifier for identifying the page update state in association with each page indicated by the page number 1402 of the document data indicated by the document ID 1401. The update management database 1400 is assumed to be stored in the external memory of the server 200. The update identifier 1403 is an identifier that is changed each time the page of the document data in the document database 1200 of the server 200 is updated (the annotation addition state of the page).

  The document data transmission unit 322 transmits the document data to the client terminal 100 (step S508). The download processing unit 312 of the client terminal 100 receives the document data (step S509), and stores the document data in the storage area of the client terminal 100 specified by the user operation (step S510).

  When the annotation addition processing unit 313 opens the document data and receives an instruction for adding an annotation to the document data by a user operation (step S511), the annotation addition processing unit 313 performs processing for adding an annotation to the designated page according to the instruction. This is performed (step S512). The above is the description of FIG.

  With reference to FIG. 4, a description will be given of a process when the document data is uploaded to the server 200 again after the download process of FIG. 5, that is, after the document data registered in the document database is downloaded.

  Since the process from step S401 to S404 is as described above, the description is omitted.

  When the document data storage unit 321 of the server 200 determines in step S404 that the document ID has been acquired from the received document data to be uploaded (YES in step S404), the annotation extraction unit 323 of the server 200 has been uploaded. Document data having the same document ID as the document data is read from the document database 1200 and stored in the memory (step S405). Then, the process proceeds to step S406, and annotation extraction / registration processing is performed. The above is the description of FIG.

  Next, refer to FIG. The flow of annotation extraction / registration processing in the embodiment of the present invention will be described. The process in FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating details of the process in step S406 in FIG.

  The processing in FIG. 6 is executed for every page for all pages of the document data.

  The annotation extraction unit 323 acquires the added annotation from the document data page stored in the memory in step S405 of FIG. 4 (step S601). Then, it is determined whether one or more annotations have been acquired (step S602). If the annotation cannot be acquired (NO in step S602), the process ends. If one or more annotations have been acquired (YES in step S602), the process proceeds to step S603.

  The annotation extraction unit 323 performs a process of acquiring an update identifier corresponding to the document ID and page number of the uploaded document data from the update management database (update management DB 1400) (step S603). Then, it is determined whether an update identifier exists (step S604). If an annotation is added to the page (since an update identifier is added in step S506 in FIG. 5), it is determined that an update identifier exists. If no annotation is added to the page, it is determined that no update identifier exists.

  If it is determined that the update identifier does not exist (NO in step S604), the annotation information acquired in step S601 is stored and registered in the annotation database 1300 in association with the corresponding page (step S609). Details of the registration process will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Then, the update identifier of the page registered in the annotation database 1300 in step S611 is newly stored in the update management database 1400 (step S610). That is, the value of the update identifier 1403 of the corresponding page is changed.

  On the other hand, when the update identifier corresponding to the document ID / page number of the uploaded document data can be acquired from the update management database 1400 in step S604 (YES in step S604), the annotation extraction unit 323 determines in step S601. The update identifier of the page currently processed (having been sent from the client terminal 100 and received in step S402 (FIG. 4)) from which the annotation information has been acquired is acquired, and the update identifier, the document ID and the update management database of the page are acquired. It is determined whether the update identifier on 1400 matches (step S605). That is, it is determined whether or not the document data stored on the server 200 has been updated by, for example, another user since the document data received in step S402 is downloaded from the server 200.

  If they do not match (NO in step S605), the update identifiers do not match, that is, the document data on the server 200 has been updated after the document data transmitted in step S401 is downloaded from the server 200. This is notified to the client terminal 100 (step S608).

  In the notification process, for example, the CPU 201 of the server 200 generates the notification screen 900 shown in FIG. 9 and transmits it to the client terminal 100 that is the document data transmission source. When the CPU 201 of the client terminal 100 receives the data of the notification screen 900, the CPU 201 displays the notification screen 900 on the display screen, and after the document data transmitted in step S 401 is downloaded from the server 200, The user is notified that the document data has been updated.

  The case where the document data on the server 200 has been updated after the time when the document data transmitted in step S401 is downloaded from the server 200 is, for example, the user client terminal that transmitted the document data in step S401 (example: Step after the same document data on the server 200 is downloaded by another user who is not logged in to the client terminal 100A) (the client terminal 100B where other user B is logged in) and the document data is downloaded. This is a case where the document data on the server 200 has been updated (for example, an annotation has been added) before being transmitted in S401.

  If it is determined in step S605 that the update identifiers match (YES in step S605), the annotation information acquired in step S601 is stored and registered in the annotation database 1300 in association with the corresponding page (step S606). Details of step S606 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Then, the update identifier of the page registered in the annotation database 1300 in step S606 is newly stored in the update management database 1400 (step S607). That is, the value of the update identifier 1403 of the corresponding page is changed. The above is the description of FIG.

  Next, the details of the annotation registration process in the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  The annotation storage unit 324 performs the processes in steps S701 to S705 for all annotations in the page.

  The annotation storage unit 324 acquires one annotation (annotation information) from the page that is executing the process of FIG. 6 among the pages of the document data received in step S402 of FIG. 4 (step S701). Then, it is determined whether the acquired annotation is a new annotation (step S702). Specifically, it is determined whether an annotation with the same annotation ID 1302 as the annotation ID of the acquired annotation information exists on the page of the same document on the document database 1200. It is determined that it is an existing annotation.

  If it is a new annotation (YES in step S702), the acquired annotation information is newly registered in the annotation database 1300 (step S705).

  When the annotation is not a new annotation (NO in step S702), the annotation comment of the document received in step S402 and the annotation of the document data on the document database 1200 of the server 200 having the same annotation ID as the annotation. In comparison, it is determined whether the character strings of the comments in the annotation are the same (step S703).

  If the character strings are the same (NO in step S703), the annotation comment is not changed, and thus the processing is terminated without updating the annotation. If the character strings are not identical (YES in step S703), it is determined that the comment of the annotation has been changed / added, and the difference character string that does not match is the same comment group (comment group ID 1304) as the existing annotation. Newly registered as an annotation (step S704). The above is the description of FIG.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a mechanism for managing document data and annotation separately and appropriately managing the document.

  <Second Embodiment>

  In the second embodiment, document data and annotation are managed separately, and a mechanism for appropriately adding an annotation to a document when an upload target document has already been updated is provided.

  Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 11 and 6. Since the contents of FIGS. 4 to 5, 7 to 10, and 12 to 15 are the same as those of the first embodiment, description thereof is omitted. Also, the processes in steps S601 to S609, S611, and S612 in FIG. 6 are the same as those in the first embodiment, and thus description thereof is omitted.

  In step S610, the server 200 generates a comment addition screen 1100 shown in FIG. 11 and transmits it to the client terminal 100 (step S610).

  The comment addition screen 1100 includes an additional comment display unit 1101, a display unit 1102, an annotation 1103, an “add to this annotation” button 1104, a “do not add” button 1105, an “agree” button 1106, an “opposite” button 1107, and the like. ing.

  Of the annotation comments added to the document transmitted in step S401, the annotation comment added to the page on which the process of FIG. 6 is being executed is inserted and displayed in the additional comment display unit 1101.

  The display unit 1102 displays an annotation comment for each annotation 1103 already added to the same page as the page on which the processing in FIG. 6 is being performed on the document data stored in the document database 1200 of the server 200. Part.

  When the “add to annotation” button 1104 receives a press, the client terminal 100 transmits information indicating that the press has been made to the server 200, and the CPU 201 of the server 200 executes the processing of S704 in FIG. It is a button for. That is, this is a button for adding the same comment group ID as the annotation corresponding to the “add to this annotation” button 1104 and registering the annotation of the comment displayed in the additional comment display unit 1101 in the annotation database 1300.

  The “not add” button 1105 is a button for canceling registration of the comment (annotation including a comment) displayed in the additional comment display unit 1101 and ending the comment addition screen 1100.

  An “agree” button 1106 and an “opposite” button 1107 are used to display annotations (comments indicated by annotations) displayed on the display unit 1102 without registering annotations of comments displayed on the additional comment display unit 1101 in the annotation database 1300. It is a button for registering information on the approval or disapproval of.

  The client terminal 100 transmits information indicating that the “Yes” button 1106 and “No” button 1107 have been pressed to the server 200, and corresponds to each annotation depending on the type of the button pressed by the CPU 201 of the server 200. In addition, data of “agreement number” and “opposite number” (not shown) are stored (updated and stored). Then, the comment addition screen 1100 is terminated and the process proceeds.

  When a request for the document list screen is received, the document list screen 800 is generated so that the information on the “number of approvals” and the “number of opposites” is displayed on the approval number display unit 1111 and the opposite number display unit 1112. Is transmitted to the client terminal 100, and the client terminal 100 receives it and displays the document list screen 800 shown in FIG. 11 on the display screen.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the document data and the annotation are managed separately, and the annotation is appropriately added to the document when the upload target document has already been updated. Can be provided.

  For example, one annotation (comment) should be managed and added appropriately without adding a large number of annotations with new comments such as “I agree” or “I disagree”. Can do.

  Note that the above-described registration method of approval / disapproval information using the “approve” button 1111 and the “opposite” button 1112 is merely an example. For example, by dragging a comment (an object indicating a comment) in the additional comment display unit 1101 and dropping it on any annotation in the display unit 1102, information on “agree” for the comment of the dropped annotation is registered. You may make it do. The detection of the drag-and-drop is performed by the client terminal 100, and the server 200 that has acquired information on the location where the drop operation has been performed from the client terminal 100 performs a registration process of the information of “Yes”.

  Further, by dragging and dropping a comment (an object indicating a comment) in the additional comment display unit 1101 on the “agree” button 1111, information of “agree” for the comment of the dropped annotation is registered, and “disagree” is registered. By dragging and dropping a comment (an object indicating a comment) in the additional comment display unit 1101 on the button 1112, “opposite” information with respect to the comment of the dropped annotation may be registered. The detection of the drag and drop is performed by the client terminal 100, and the server 200 that has acquired information on the location where the drop operation has been performed from the client terminal 100 performs registration processing of the information of “approved” and “opposite”.

  Heretofore, the first embodiment and the second embodiment of the present invention have been described.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a mechanism for managing document data and annotation separately and appropriately managing the document.

  As described above, a recording medium that records a program that implements the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus stores the program stored in the recording medium. It goes without saying that the object of the present invention can also be achieved by executing the reading.

  In this case, the program itself read from the recording medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the recording medium storing the program constitutes the present invention.

  As a recording medium for supplying the program, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, EEPROM, silicon A disk or the like can be used.

  Furthermore, after the program read from the recording medium is written to the memory provided in the function expansion board inserted into the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function expansion board is based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that the case where the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

  Further, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or apparatus. In this case, by reading a recording medium storing a program for achieving the present invention into the system or apparatus, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention.

  Furthermore, by downloading and reading a program for achieving the present invention from a server, database, etc. on a network using a communication program, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention. In addition, all the structures which combined each embodiment mentioned above and its modification are also included in this invention.

  In addition, each process realized by the above-described software can be realized as firmware or hardware configuration, and each process can be realized as each means. The technical scope of the present invention is realized by such firmware or hardware configuration. Is also included.

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Claims (7)

An information processing system including a client terminal and an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that stores document data,
The client terminal
Obtaining means for downloading and obtaining document data from the storage means of the information processing apparatus;
Transmitting means for adding an annotation to the document data acquired by the acquiring means and transmitting it to the information processing apparatus;
With
The information processing apparatus includes:
Receiving means for receiving the document data transmitted by the transmitting means;
Extracting means for extracting annotations of document data received by the receiving means;
An annotation storage unit that stores the annotation extracted by the extraction unit in association with the document data to which the annotation extracted by the extraction unit is added, and is associated with the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit;
Document data to which the annotation extracted by the extraction unit is added to the association storage unit and extracted by the extraction unit into the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit stored in the storage unit. Determining means for determining whether an annotation different from the annotation is stored in association with the annotation;
With
The association storage means stores the annotation extracted by the extraction means, which is the document data from which the annotation is extracted, in the storage means when it is determined that the another annotation is not associated and stored. An information processing system that stores the document data in association with the downloaded document data. In the determination unit, the annotation data extracted by the extraction unit is added to the association storage unit, and the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit stored in the storage unit is added to the document data. A notification means for notifying the client terminal to display a screen showing the different annotation when it is determined that an annotation different from the annotation extracted by the extraction means is stored in association with the annotation. The information processing system according to claim 1. Control means for adding an annotation to the another annotation or registering approval / disapproval information for the annotation in accordance with an instruction received via the screen notified by the notification means;
The information processing system according to claim 2, further comprising:   The control unit registers the approval / disapproval information by accepting an operation of dragging and dropping an annotation comment added to the document data with respect to the other annotation. The information processing system described. An information processing system control method including a client terminal and an information processing apparatus including a storage unit that stores document data,
In the client terminal,
An acquisition step of downloading and acquiring document data from the storage means of the information processing apparatus;
A transmission step of adding an annotation to the document data acquired in the acquisition step and transmitting the data to be uploaded to the information processing device;
Including
In the information processing apparatus,
A receiving step for receiving the document data transmitted in the transmitting step;
An extraction step of extracting the annotation of the document data received in the reception step;
An annotation storage step for storing the annotation extracted in the extraction step in association with the document data to which the annotation extracted in the extraction step is added, and in association with the document data downloaded in the acquisition step;
Document data to which the annotation extracted in the extraction step is added to the association storage step and extracted in the extraction step into the document data downloaded in the acquisition step stored in the storage means. A determination step of determining whether an annotation different from the annotation is stored in association with the annotation,
Including
In the association storage step, when it is determined that the other annotation is not associated and stored, the annotation extracted in the extraction step is document data from which the annotation is extracted, and is stored in the storage unit A method of controlling an information processing system, wherein the information is stored in association with the document data downloaded in the acquisition step. A program that can be executed by an information processing system including a client terminal and an information processing apparatus that includes a storage unit that stores document data,
Client terminal
Obtaining means for downloading and obtaining document data from the storage means of the information processing apparatus;
Annotation is added to the document data acquired by the acquisition unit, and the document data is transmitted to be uploaded to the information processing apparatus.
The information processing apparatus;
Receiving means for receiving the document data transmitted by the transmitting means;
Extracting means for extracting annotations of document data received by the receiving means;
An annotation storage unit that stores the annotation extracted by the extraction unit in association with the document data to which the annotation extracted by the extraction unit is added, and is associated with the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit;
Document data to which the annotation extracted by the extraction unit is added to the association storage unit and extracted by the extraction unit into the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit stored in the storage unit. Function as a determination means for determining whether an annotation different from the stored annotation is stored in association with it,
The association storage means stores the annotation extracted by the extraction means, which is the document data from which the annotation is extracted, in the storage means when it is determined that the another annotation is not associated and stored. A program for an information processing system, which stores the document data in association with the document data downloaded by the acquisition means. Communication with a client terminal comprising: acquisition means for downloading and acquiring document data from an information processing apparatus; and transmission means for adding an annotation to the document data acquired by the acquisition means and transmitting the data to be uploaded to the information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus comprising storage means for storing document data,
Receiving means for receiving the document data transmitted by the transmitting means;
Extracting means for extracting annotations of document data received by the receiving means;
An annotation storage unit that stores the annotation extracted by the extraction unit in association with the document data to which the annotation extracted by the extraction unit is added, and is associated with the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit;
Document data to which the annotation extracted by the extraction unit is added to the association storage unit and extracted by the extraction unit into the document data downloaded by the acquisition unit stored in the storage unit. Determining means for determining whether an annotation different from the annotation is stored in association with the annotation;
With
The association storage means stores the annotation extracted by the extraction means, which is the document data from which the annotation is extracted, in the storage means when it is determined that the another annotation is not associated and stored. An information processing apparatus that stores the document data in association with the downloaded document data.

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