JP5215160B2 - Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique capable of tracking trails of various media such as electronic data and paper.

  In recent years, with the enactment of laws and the like, the importance of internal control has been raised, and the demand for forensics (trail preservation) has increased. In forensics, search is an important function because a leakage path is quickly confirmed from a trail when a security incident such as information leakage occurs.

  For example, a product that records and saves an action and content of information transmission using an electronic medium such as transmission / reception of electronic mail or copying of an electronic document to a device in a PC client as a trail has been realized.

  Patent Document 1 also discloses a method for managing information by using a print medium in which an IC tag is embedded not only for an electronic medium but also for a printed print medium.

  Further, Patent Document 2 discloses a method of digitizing a print medium so that it can be managed together with e-mails and electronic documents and searched seamlessly.

JP 2006-198798 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-120202

  However, in the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1, only information on the same medium is managed, and when an incident occurs, confirmation by a different product corresponding to the medium is necessary, and the confirmation work is complicated. There is also a problem that it is impossible to grasp the transmission of information between different media.

  The technique disclosed in Patent Document 2 can manage information on various media and search seamlessly, but assumes a document management system that explicitly registers documents to be managed, and transmits all information. It is not assumed to be preserved as a trail. Therefore, there is a problem that the transmission of information cannot be grasped.

An object of the present invention is a plurality of trails included in the trail information of data stored in the storage means, and a plurality of trails of data having contents matching or similar to the data to be searched that has received the input . Based on the transmission source and the transmission destination, a plurality of transmission method information is used to identify a transmission path through which data having contents matching or similar to the data to be searched for receiving the input is transmitted, and the identified transmission source And a mechanism for generating and outputting information indicating a transmission path including the transmission destination.

The information processing apparatus according to the present invention matches or resembles a trail including transmission method information indicating an operation to which data is transmitted, and a transmission source and a transmission destination of the data transmitted by the transmission method information, with the data. Storage means for storing trail information included for each of a plurality of transmission method information to which content data is transmitted, data content for the trail included in the trail information, and reception means for receiving input of search target data Search means for searching a plurality of trails of data having contents matching or similar to the search target data received by the receiving means from the trail information stored in the storage means, and the storage means The data by the plurality of transmission method information based on the transmission source and transmission destination of a plurality of trails included in the trail information of the data stored in A specifying means for specifying the transmitted transmission path; a generating means for generating information indicating a transmission path including the transmission source and the transmission destination specified by the specifying means; and a transmission path generated by the generating means. Output means for displaying the information to be displayed , the specifying means based on the plurality of transmission method information based on the transmission source and transmission destination included in the plurality of trails searched by the search means, It is characterized in that a transmission path through which data having contents matching or similar to the search target data received by the receiving means is transmitted is specified .
The control method of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention matches a trail including transmission method information indicating an operation to which data is transmitted, and a transmission source and a transmission destination of the data transmitted by the transmission method information, with the data. Or a control method of an information processing apparatus comprising storage means for storing trail information included for each of a plurality of transmission method information to which data having similar contents are transmitted, and data contents of the trail included in the trail information A receiving unit that receives an input of data to be searched; and a plurality of trails of data having a content that matches or is similar to the data to be searched that the search unit receives an input in the receiving step, a search step of searching among the trail information stored in the storage means, the specific means, included in the trail information of the data stored in said storage means A specifying step of specifying a transfer path through which the data is transferred by the plurality of transfer method information based on a plurality of trail transmission sources and destinations, and a generation means, the transmission source specified by the specifying step and a generation step of generating information indicating a transmission path including the transmission destination, output means, and an output step of outputting so as to display the information indicating the transmission path generated by said generating step, said specific process Based on transmission sources and transmission destinations included in a plurality of trails searched in the search step, content that matches or is similar to the search target data received in the reception step according to the plurality of transmission method information It is characterized in that the transmission path through which the data is transmitted is specified .
The program according to the present invention includes a transmission method information indicating an operation in which data is transmitted, and a trail including a transmission source and a transmission destination of the data transmitted by the transmission method information, with a content that matches or is similar to the data. This is a program that can be read and executed by an information processing apparatus having storage means for storing trail information included for each of a plurality of transmission method information to which data has been transmitted, and data contents of the trail included in the trail information. The information processing apparatus receives, in the storage unit, a reception unit that receives input of data to be searched, and a plurality of trails of data that matches or is similar to the data to be searched that is received by the reception unit. search means for searching from the trail information stored in multiple contained in trail information of the data stored in said storage means Based on the transmission source and transmission destination of the trace, specifying means for specifying the transmission path through which the data is transmitted by the plurality of transmission method information, and transmission including the transmission source and the transmission destination specified by the specifying means A generating unit configured to generate information indicating a route; and an output unit configured to output information indicating the transmission path generated by the generating unit to display the information. The specifying unit includes a plurality of trails searched by the searching unit. Based on the transmission source and the transmission destination included in the information, a transmission path through which data having contents matching or similar to the search target data received by the reception unit is transmitted is specified by the plurality of transmission method information. It is characterized by that.

According to the present invention, there are a plurality of trails included in the trail information of the data stored in the storage means, and a plurality of trails of data having contents matching or similar to the data to be searched for which the input is accepted. Based on the transmission source and the transmission destination, a plurality of transmission method information is used to identify a transmission path through which data having contents matching or similar to the data to be searched for receiving the input is transmitted, and the identified transmission source And information indicating a transmission path including the transmission destination can be generated and output. Therefore, for example, when an information leakage incident occurs, it is possible to generate information indicating the transmission path of data whose contents match or are similar from the trail data such as an electronic mail, an electronic document, and a print medium.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments to which the invention is applied will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a trail management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Note that FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of various terminals connected to the network, and it goes without saying that there are various configuration examples depending on the application and purpose.

  Reference numeral 100 denotes a trail management apparatus that manages trails on various media. The trail management apparatus 100 can transmit / receive data to / from the search terminal 110 and external systems (e-mail transmission / reception apparatus 120, print / copy composite apparatus 130, PC client management apparatus 140, discarding apparatus 150, etc.) via a network. . The trail has information on the medium, the operator, the operation date and time, and the information of the document that is the operation target as attributes, and also has other information attached to each medium as attributes. The trail management apparatus 100 is a configuration that is an application example of the information processing apparatus of the present invention.

  A search designation unit 101 generates a search screen for making an inquiry from the search terminal 110 and receives an inquiry sentence from the search terminal 101. The search designation unit 101 is a configuration serving as an application example of the accepting unit of the present invention.

  Reference numeral 102 denotes a similar sentence search unit that acquires a trail having, as an operation target, a document similar to the inquiry sentence received by the search designation unit 101 from the trail stored in the trail storage area 107. Note that the similar sentence search unit 102 is an application example of the search means of the present invention.

  Reference numeral 103 denotes a transmission path specifying unit that estimates a connection between the trails from the attributes of the trails acquired by the similar sentence search unit 102 and specifies the transmission path. In addition, the transmission path | route specific | specification part 103 is a structure used as the example of application of the specific means of this invention.

  A search result creation unit 104 generates a screen for displaying the transmission route specified by the transmission route specification unit 103 as a result of an inquiry on the search terminal 110. The search result creation unit 104 is configured as an application example of the generation unit of the present invention.

  A trail receiving unit 105 receives a trail transferred from an external system. Reference numeral 106 denotes a trail registration unit that registers in the trail storage area 107 in order to manage and search the trail received by the trail receiving unit 105.

  Reference numeral 107 denotes a trail storage area that is stored for managing and searching for trails. Reference numeral 108 denotes an organization information storage area that is stored for managing and retrieving organization information. FIG. 18 is a diagram showing the configuration of the organization information storage area 108. As shown in FIG. 18, an organization information storage area 108 stores an organization information table 1801 and a user information table 1802. The trail storage area 107 has a configuration as an application example of the first management means of the present invention, and the organization information storage area 108 has a configuration as an application example of the second management means of the present invention.

  Reference numeral 110 denotes a search terminal used by an administrator who makes an inquiry about a trail. The search terminal 110 sends an inquiry sentence to the trail management apparatus 100 using the browser 111 via the network. Further, the search terminal 110 receives the result of the inquiry from the trail management apparatus 100 using the browser 111 via the network, and displays it. Reference numeral 111 denotes a browser having a general Web browser function.

  120, 130, 140, and 150 are devices that can be cited as examples of an external system that acquires a trail on various media (electronic data, paper), and are connected to the trail management device 100 via a network.

  An e-mail transmission / reception device 120 collects a trail for the transmitted / received e-mail. Reference numeral 121 denotes an e-mail trail transmission unit which transmits a trail collected and accumulated by the e-mail transmission / reception device 120 to the trail reception unit 105 in the trail management device 100.

  Reference numeral 130 denotes a combined printing / copying apparatus that collects trails for operations such as printing, copying, and scanning. A print / copy trail transmission unit 131 transmits a trail collected and stored by the print / copy composite apparatus 130 to the trail reception unit 105 in the trail management apparatus 100. If the IC tag is embedded in the paper medium to be printed and read, and the information for identifying the paper medium is recorded in the IC tag, the combined print / copy apparatus 130 reads the information to be identified from the IC tag, It may be included as a media identifier in the trail.

  Reference numeral 140 denotes a PC client management apparatus, which collects trails for operations in the PC client such as copying and moving documents to devices in the client PC. Reference numeral 141 denotes a PC client trail transmission unit which transmits a trail collected and accumulated by the PC client management device 140 to the trail reception unit 105 in the trail management device 100.

  Reference numeral 150 denotes a disposal device such as a shredder or a melting box, which collects a trail for a document on a discarded paper medium. Reference numeral 151 denotes a discard trail transmission unit, which transmits a trail collected and accumulated by the discard device 150 to the trail reception unit 105 in the trail management device 100. When an IC tag that records information for identifying a paper medium to be discarded is embedded in the paper medium, the discarding device 150 reads the information for identifying the paper medium from the IC tag, and uses it as a medium identifier in the trail. May be included.

  The e-mail trail transmission unit 121, the print / copy trail transmission unit 131, the PC client trail transmission unit 141, and the discard trail transmission unit 151 may transmit the trails at any time, or may transmit them at regular intervals. Good.

  Next, FIG. 2 is used for the hardware configuration of various terminals of the trail management apparatus 100, the search terminal 110, the e-mail transmission / reception apparatus 120, the print / copy composite apparatus 130, the PC client management apparatus 140, and the disposal apparatus 150 in FIG. I will explain.

  The CPU 201 comprehensively controls each device and controller connected to the system bus 204. Further, the ROM 202 or the external memory 211 is necessary for realizing a BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) or an operating system program (hereinafter referred to as OS) that is a control program of the CPU 201 and functions executed by each server or each PC. Various programs to be described later are stored. The 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 necessary for execution of processing into the RAM 203 and executing the program.

  An input controller (input C) 205 controls input from a pointing device such as a keyboard 209 or a mouse (not shown). A video controller (VC) 206 controls display on a display device such as a CRT display (CRT) 210. The display device may be a liquid crystal display as well as a CRT. These are used by the administrator as needed. The present invention is not directly related.

  The memory controller (MC) 207 is connected via an adapter to a hard disk (HD), a flexible disk, or a PCMCIA card slot that stores a boot program, browser software, various applications, font data, user files, editing files, various data, and the like. Controls access to an external memory 211 such as a connected CompactFlash (registered trademark) memory.

  A communication I / F controller (communication I / FC) 208 is connected to and communicates with an external device via a network, and executes communication control processing in the network. For example, Internet 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.

  A program for realizing the present invention is recorded in the external memory 211 and is executed by the CPU 201 by being loaded into the RAM 202 as necessary. Furthermore, definition files and various information tables used by the program according to the present invention are stored in the external memory 211, and detailed descriptions thereof will be described later.

  Note that each functional configuration of the search specifying unit 101, the similar sentence search unit 102, the transmission path specifying unit 103, the search result creating unit 104, the trail receiving unit 105, and the trail registration unit 106 included in the trail management apparatus 100 is an external memory. This is a function realized by the CPU 201 executing the program recorded in 211. Also, an electronic mail trail transmission unit 121 in the electronic mail transmission / reception device 120, a print / copy trail transmission unit 131 in the print / copy composite device 130, a PC client trail transmission unit 141 in the PC client management device 140, and a discard trail transmission in the disposal device 150. The same applies to the part 151. Furthermore, the trail storage area 107 and the organization information storage area 108 have a configuration corresponding to a partial storage area of the RAM 203, for example.

  Next, a basic processing flow of the trail management apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a basic processing flow of the trail search processing in the trail management apparatus 100.

  In step S301, the search specification unit 101 generates a search screen that prompts input of an inquiry sentence. The search screen is displayed on the browser 111 in the search terminal 110, and the search specification unit 101 receives an inquiry sentence by the input of the searcher. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search screen for inputting an inquiry sentence. Details of the search screen will be described later.

  In step S <b> 302, the similar sentence search unit 102 extracts, from the trail storage area 107, a trail (similar trail) corresponding to a document with a similarity or higher specified in advance among documents that match or are similar to the inquiry sentence acquired in step S <b> 301. get.

  In step S303, the similar sentence search unit 102 determines whether a similar trail has been acquired in step S302. If a similar trail can be acquired in step S302, the process proceeds to step S304. On the other hand, if no similar trail has been acquired, the process proceeds to step S305.

  In step S304, the transmission path specifying unit 103 specifies an information transmission path for the similar trail acquired in step S302 based on the attributes of the similar trail, and acquires the parent-child relationship between the similar trails.

  In step S305, the search result creation unit 104 expresses the parent-child relationship between the similar trails acquired in step S304 in a tree structure, and generates a search result screen.

  If it is determined in step S303 that there is no similar trail, the search result creation unit 104 generates a search result screen indicating that there is no similar trail in step S305.

  The search result screen is displayed on the browser 111 in the search terminal 110, and the searcher can grasp the transmission path of the trail related to the document similar to the inquiry sentence. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search result screen that displays search results. The description of FIG. 5 will be described later.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of the trail storage area 107. The trail storage area 107 includes a trail table 601, a similar sentence search index 602, and a discard trail table 603.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the trail table 601. The trail table shown in FIG. 7 includes a trail identifier (a trail ID) and a trail attribute. The attributes of the trail are composed of operation, date / time, transmission source medium, transmission destination, transmission destination medium, and transmission destination.

  The similar sentence search index 602 is configured to search for a document similar to the document to be operated in the trail. The similar sentence search result is composed of the trail ID and the similarity. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a similar sentence search result. As shown in FIG. 8, the trail ID of the searched similar sentence and the similarity of the similar sentence are held in association with each other. The configuration of the discard trail table 603 will be described later.

Next, processing when the trail table 601 of FIG. 7 is stored will be described below.
In step S301, the search specification unit 101 displays the search screen shown in FIG. 4 on the browser 111 in the search terminal 110 and prompts the user to input an inquiry sentence. When an inquiry text is input in the inquiry input field 401 and the search button 402 is pressed, the search specification unit 101 acquires the inquiry text in the inquiry input field 401. In the search screen, it is possible to specify the period of the document to be searched. In the example of FIG. 4, “January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2008” is designated as the period. Moreover, you may comprise so that search conditions other than a period can be designated on a search screen.

  In step S302, the similar sentence search unit 102 performs a similar sentence search using the similar sentence search index 602 for the query sentence acquired in step S301. Here, it is assumed that the specified similarity is 80 or more, and the similar sentence search result of FIG. 8 is obtained. Then, the similar sentence search unit 102 compares the trails from the trail table of FIG. 7 to the trails 701 to 707 whose trail IDs match with respect to the similar sentence search result of FIG. 8 as shown in FIG. Get as.

  In step S303, the similar sentence search unit 102 can acquire a similar trail in step S302, and thus the process proceeds to step S304.

  In step S304, the transmission path specifying unit 103 specifies an information transmission path for the similar trail acquired in step S302 based on the attributes of the similar trail, and acquires the parent-child relationship between the similar trails. The process for acquiring the parent-child relationship between similar trails will be described later.

  In step S305, the search result creation unit 104 generates a search result screen as shown in FIG. 5 from the parent-child relationship between the similar trails acquired in step S304. The search result screen is transmitted to the browser 111 in the search terminal 110 and displayed.

  Next, the transmission path specifying process in step S304 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a basic processing flow of the transmission path specifying process in the trail management apparatus 100.

  In step S1001, the transmission path specifying unit 102 empties the processed trail buffer that stores the processed trail.

  In step S1002, the transmission path identifying unit 102 rearranges, for example, the similar trails illustrated in FIG. 9 in time order.

  In step S1003, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing for the similar trails in time order.

  In step S1004, the transmission path specifying unit 102 searches the processed trail buffer for a parent trail for the currently processed trail. The parent trail is a trail immediately before a transmission source in a trail has obtained information in the trail. Details of the process of searching for the parent trail will be described later.

  In step S1005, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether a parent trail is found in step S1004. If a parent trail is found, the process moves to step S1006. On the other hand, if the parent trail is not found, the process proceeds to step S1007.

  In step S1006, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the similar trail acquired in step S1004 as the parent trail for the similar trail being processed.

  In step S1007, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the parent trail for the similar trail being processed to be empty.

  In step S1008, the transmission path specifying unit 102 adds the similar trail being processed to the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1009, if there is still a similar trail to be processed, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1003. If there is no similar trail to be processed, the process ends.

  Next, a specific example in the case where the process shown in FIG. 10 is performed on the similar trail shown in FIG. 9 acquired by the similar sentence search unit 102 in step S302 will be described.

  In step S1001, the transmission path specifying unit 102 empties the processed trail buffer that stores the processed trail.

  In step S1002, the transmission path identifying unit 102 rearranges the similar trails illustrated in FIG. 9 in time order. Since the similar trails in FIG. 9 are already arranged in time order, the rearrangement result is the same as in FIG.

  In step S <b> 1003, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing for the similar trail 901.

  In step S1004, the transmission path specifying unit 102 searches the processed trail buffer for the parent trail of the similar trail 901. Now, the processed trail buffer is empty, so the parent trail cannot be found.

  In step S1005, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1007 because there is no parent trail in step S1004.

  In step S1007, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the parent trail of the similar trail 901 to be empty.

  In step S1008, the transmission path identifying unit 102 adds the similar trail 901 to the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1009, if there is still a trail to be processed, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1003.

  In step S <b> 1003, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing for the similar trail 902.

  In step S1004, the transmission path specifying unit 102 searches the processed trail buffer for the parent trail of the similar trail 902. In this example, it is assumed that the similar trail 901 is searched from the processed trail buffer as the parent trail of the similar trail 902.

  In step S1005, since the parent trail is found in step S1004, the transmission path identifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1006.

  In step S <b> 1006, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the similar trail 901 as the parent trail of the similar trail 902.

  In step S1008, the transmission path specifying unit 102 adds the similar trail 902 to the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1009, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1003. Thereafter, the processing is similarly repeated up to the similar trail 907.

  Next, the parent trail search process in step S1004 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a processing flow of parent trail processing in the trail management apparatus 100.

  In the following description, the trail being processed when the parent trail search process is executed in step S1004 in FIG. 10 is referred to as a child trail.

  In step S1101, the transmission path identifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer that holds the parent trail candidate being processed.

  In step S1102, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing the trails stored in the processed trail buffer in reverse time order.

  In step S1103, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether the transmission source medium of the child trail and the transmission destination medium of the trail being processed are the same. If they are the same medium, the process proceeds to step S1104. If the medium is different, the process proceeds to step S1110.

  In step S1104, the transmission path specifying unit 102 confirms the transmission destination of the trail being processed. When the transmission destination is empty (when it cannot be specified), the process proceeds to step S1107. If the transmission destination is not empty, the process proceeds to step S1105.

  In step S1105, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether the transmission source of the child trail is included in the transmission destination of the trail being processed. When the transmission source of the child trail is included in the transmission destination of the trail being processed, the process proceeds to step S1106. When the transmission source of the child trail is not included in the transmission destination of the trail being processed, the process proceeds to step S1110.

  In step S1106, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the trail being processed as a parent trail in the search result, and ends the process.

  In step S1107, the transmission path identification unit 102 calculates the distance between the trail being processed and the child trail. The distance between the trails was, for example, the distance in the organization between the transmission source in the trail being processed and the transmission source of the child trail, or the communication between the transmission source in the trail being processed and the transmission source of the child trail in the past. A data amount or the like may be used.

  In step S1108, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether the parent trail candidate buffer is empty or the distance obtained in step S1107 is smaller than the distance between the parent trail candidate and the child trail held in the parent trail candidate buffer. Determine whether. If the parent trail candidate buffer is empty or if the distance obtained in step S1107 is smaller than the distance between the parent trail candidate and the child trail held in the parent trail candidate buffer, the process proceeds to step S1109. Otherwise, the process moves to step S1110.

  In step S1109, the transmission path specifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer, and holds the trail being processed in the parent trail candidate buffer. The distance acquired in step S1107 is also held at the same time.

  In step S1110, when the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1102. If there is no trail to be processed, the process proceeds to step S1111.

  In step S1111, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the trail held in the parent trail candidate buffer as a parent trail as a search result, and ends the process.

  Here, one parent trail candidate is held in the processing of step S1108 and step S1109. However, priorities may be assigned according to distance and all candidates may be held. Further, the stored candidate may be configured to be selected by the user.

  In the following, a specific example will be described in which the flow shown in FIG. 11 is performed when the child trail is the similar trail 904 with respect to the similar trail shown in FIG. 9 acquired by the similar sentence search unit 102 in step S302. To do. At this time, the similar trail 901, the similar trail 902, and the similar trail 903 are stored in the processed trail buffer in time order.

  In step S1101, the transmission path identifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer that holds the parent trail candidate being processed.

  In step S1102, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 903 stored in the processed trail buffer. Here, the trails stored in the processed trail buffer are processed in the reverse order of time (date and time).

  In step S1103, since the transmission source medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 904 is the same medium as the transmission destination medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 903, the transmission path identifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1104.

  In step S1104, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1105 because the transmission destination of the similar trail 903 is not empty.

  In step S1105, the transmission path identification unit 102 does not include the transmission source (“Tamada”) of the similar trail 904 in the transmission destination (“Nakamura”, “Matsui”, “Abe”) of the similar trail 903. The process moves to step S1110.

  In step S1110, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1102 because the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1102, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 902 stored in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1103, since the transmission source medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 904 is different from the transmission destination medium (“paper”) of the trail 902, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1110.

  In step S1110, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1102 because the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1102, the transmission path identifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 901 stored in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1103, since the transmission source medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 904 is the same medium as the transmission destination medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 901, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1104.

  In step S1104, the transmission path identifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1105 because the transmission destination of the similar trail 901 is not empty.

  In step S1105, the transmission path specifying unit 102 includes the transmission source (“Tamada”) of the similar trail 904 in the transmission destination (“Nakazawa”, “Endo”, “Tamada”) of the similar trail 901. The process moves to step S1106.

  In step S1106, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the similar trail 901 as a parent trail as a search result, and ends the process.

  Next, a specific example when the processing of the flow shown in FIG. 11 is performed when the child trail is the trail 905 with respect to the similar trail shown in FIG. 9 acquired by the similar sentence search unit 102 in step S302 will be described. .

  At this time, the processed trail buffer stores a trail 901, a trail 902, a trail 903, and a trail 904 in order of time (date and time). At this time, it is assumed that the organization information storage area 108 stores the organization information table 1801 shown in FIG. The distance of each member in the organizational structure is represented by the number of arcs of the shortest path connecting the members.

  In step S1101, the transmission path identifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer that holds the parent trail candidate being processed.

  In step S1102, the transmission path specifying unit 102 processes the processed trail buffer in reverse order of time, and thus starts processing the similar trail 904.

  In step S1103, since the transmission source medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 905 is the same medium as the transmission destination medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 904, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1104.

  In step S1104, the transmission path identification unit 102 moves the process to step S1107 because the transmission destination of the similar trail 904 is empty.

  In step S <b> 1107, the transmission path identifying unit 102 calculates the distance between the similar trail 905 and the similar trail 904. The distance in the organizational structure of FIG. 12 between the transmission source (“Yasuda”) in the similar trail 905 and the transmission source (“Tamada”) in the similar trail 904 is 2.

  In step S1108, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1109 because the parent trail candidate buffer is empty.

  In step S1109, the transmission path specifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer, holds the similar trail 904 and the distance 2 in the parent trail candidate buffer, and moves the process to step S1110.

  In step S1110, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1102 because the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1102, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 903 stored in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1103, since the transmission source medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 905 is different from the transmission destination medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 903, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1110.

  In step S1110, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1102 because the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1102, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 902 stored in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1103, since the transmission source medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 905 is the same medium as the transmission destination medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 902, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1104.

  In step S1104, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1107 because the transmission destination of the similar trail 902 is empty.

  In step S <b> 1107, the transmission path identification unit 102 calculates the distance between the similar trail 905 and the similar trail 902. The distance in the organizational structure of FIG. 12 between the transmission source (“Yasuda”) in the similar trail 905 and the transmission source (“Nakazawa”) in the similar trail 902 is 1.

  In step S1108, the transmission path identifying unit 102 determines that the distance between the parent trail candidate (trail 904) and the trail 905 held in the parent trail candidate buffer is 2 and the distance obtained in step S1107 is small. Move processing.

  In step S1109, the transmission path specifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer, holds the similar trail 902 and the distance 1 in the parent trail candidate buffer, and moves the process to step S1110.

  In step S1110, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1102 because the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1102, the transmission path identifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 901 stored in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S <b> 1103, the transmission path identification unit 102 moves the process to step S <b> 1110 because the transmission source medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 905 is different from the transmission destination medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 901.

  In step S1110, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1111 because there is no trail to be processed in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S <b> 1111, the transmission path identification unit 102 sets the similar trail 902 held in the parent trail candidate buffer as a parent trail, sets the search result, and ends the process.

  By executing the processing described above, a search result screen as shown in FIG. 5 is generated. In the example of FIG. 5, for example, the transmission source “Kawaguchi” has passed the document to the transmission destinations “Nakazawa”, “Endo”, and “Tamada” via the “electronic” medium. In addition, it is shown that the transmission source “Nakazawa” delivered the document to the transmission destination “Yasuda” on the “paper” medium. In addition, a question mark is attached in the vicinity of “Yasuda”. This is based on the assumption that the document was handed over from “Nakazawa” to “Yasuda” on the “paper” medium. Is shown. That is, it is shown that the parent trail candidate is determined by the processing for calculating the distance between the transmission sources in steps S1107 to S1109 in FIG.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, information that is difficult to electronically record the information transmission path after output, such as paper media, is also based on the relationship between persons involved in the trail, such as organization information. A transmission path can be estimated.

  Next, a second process example of the parent trail search process executed in step S1004 of FIG. 10 will be described. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a second process flow of the parent trail search process executed in step S1004 of FIG.

  In the following description, the trail being processed when the parent trail search process is executed in step S1004 in FIG. 10 is referred to as a child trail.

  In step S1301, the transmission path identification unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer that holds the parent trail candidate being processed.

  In step S1302, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing the trails stored in the processed trail buffer in reverse time order.

  In step S1303, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether the transmission source medium of the child trail and the transmission destination medium of the trail being processed are the same. If they are the same medium, the process proceeds to step S1304. If the media is different, the process proceeds to step S1311.

  In step S1304, the transmission path identifying unit 102 determines whether the transmission destination of the trail being processed is empty. When the transmission destination is empty (when it cannot be specified), the process proceeds to step S1307. If the transmission destination is not empty, the process proceeds to step S1305.

  In step S1305, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether the transmission source of the child trail is included in the transmission destination of the trail being processed. If the transmission source of the child trail is included in the transmission destination of the trail being processed, the process proceeds to step S1306. When the transmission source of the child trail is not included in the transmission destination of the trail being processed, the process proceeds to step S1311.

  In step S1306, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the trail being processed as a parent trail in the search result, and ends the process.

  In step S1307, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether the transmission source medium identifier of the child trail is included in the transmission destination medium identifier of the trail being processed. When the transmission source medium identifier of the child trail is included in the transmission destination medium identifier being processed, the process proceeds to step S1306. If the transmission source medium identifier of the child trail is not included in the transmission destination medium identifier being processed, the process proceeds to step S1308.

  In step S1308, the transmission path specifying unit 102 calculates the distance between the trail being processed and the child trail. The distance between the trails was, for example, the distance in the organization between the transmission source in the trail being processed and the transmission source of the child trail, or the communication between the transmission source in the trail being processed and the transmission source of the child trail in the past. A data amount or the like may be used.

  In step S1309, the transmission path specifying unit 102 determines whether the parent trail candidate buffer is empty or the distance obtained in step S1308 is smaller than the distance between the parent trail candidate and the child trail held in the parent trail candidate buffer. Determine whether. If the parent trail candidate buffer is empty or if the distance obtained in step S1308 is smaller than the distance between the parent trail candidate and the child trail held in the parent trail candidate buffer, the process proceeds to step S1310. Otherwise, the process moves to step S1311.

  In step S1310, the transmission path identifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer and holds the trail being processed in the parent trail candidate buffer. The distance acquired in step S1308 is also held at the same time.

  In step S1311, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1302 when the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer. If there is no trail to be processed, the process proceeds to step S1312.

  In step S1312, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the trail held in the parent trail candidate buffer as a parent trail as a search result, and ends the process.

  In the processing of step S1309 and step S1310, one parent trail candidate is held, but priorities may be assigned according to distance to hold all candidates.

  Next, a specific example when the processing of the flow shown in FIG. 13 is performed when the child trail is the similar trail 1405 with respect to the similar trail shown in FIG. 14 acquired by the similar sentence search unit 102 in step S302 will be described. To do.

  At this time, it is assumed that there is an organizational structure shown in FIG. The distance of each member in the organizational structure is represented by the number of arcs of the shortest path connecting the members.

  At this time, the processed trail buffer stores a similar trail 1401, a similar trail 1402, a similar trail 1403, and a similar trail 1404 in time order.

  In step S1301, the transmission path identification unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer that holds the parent trail candidate being processed.

  In step S1302, the transmission path identification unit 102 processes the processed trail buffer in reverse order of time, and thus starts processing the similar trail 1404.

  In step S1303, since the transmission source medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 1405 is the same medium as the transmission destination medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 1404, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1304.

  In step S1304, the transmission path identifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1307 because the transmission destination of the similar trail 1404 is empty.

  In step S1307, the transmission path identification unit 102 does not include the transmission source medium identifier (“P2”) of the similar trail 1405 in the transmission destination medium identifiers (“P4”, “P5”) of the similar trail 1404. Move processing to.

  In step S1308, the transmission path specifying unit 102 calculates the distance between the similar trail 1405 and the similar trail 1404. The distance in the organizational structure of FIG. 12 between the transmission source (“Yasuda”) in the similar trail 1405 and the transmission source (“Tamada”) in the similar trail 1404 is 2.

  In step S1309, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1310 because the parent trail candidate buffer is empty.

  In step S1310, the transmission path identifying unit 102 empties the parent trail candidate buffer and holds the similar trail 1404 and the distance 2 in the parent trail candidate buffer.

  In step S1311, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1302 because the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1302, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 1403 stored in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1303, since the transmission source medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 1405 is different from the transmission destination medium (“electronic”) of the similar trail 1403, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1311.

  In step S1311, the transmission path specifying unit 102 returns the process to step S1302 because the trail to be processed is in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1302, the transmission path specifying unit 102 starts processing on the similar trail 1402 stored in the processed trail buffer.

  In step S1303, since the transmission source medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 1405 is the same medium as the transmission destination medium (“paper”) of the similar trail 1402, the transmission path specifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1304.

  In step S1304, the transmission path identifying unit 102 moves the process to step S1307 because the transmission destination of the similar trail 1402 is empty. In step S1307, the transmission path identification unit 102 includes the transmission source identifier (“P2”) of the similar trail 1405 in the transmission destination identifiers (“P1”, “P2”, “P3”) of the similar trail 1402; The process moves to S1306.

  In step S1306, the transmission path specifying unit 102 sets the similar trail 1402 as a parent trail in the search result and ends the process.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, if a medium can be identified using a physical tag such as a paper medium using an IC tag or the like, a highly accurate transmission path can be established using the medium identification information. It becomes possible to show.

  Next, a processing flow when the trail management apparatus 100 uses life / death information will be described. Note that the life / death information is a trail regarding the disposal of the document, and is a trail collected by the disposal device 150 that discards the paper medium such as a shredder or a melting box.

  In general, it is difficult to record the document contents in these discarding apparatuses 150, and it cannot be collected as a similar trail by similar sentence search. Therefore, the discard trail is identified by identifying the paper medium itself using an IC tag or the like. Can be considered. Then, by correlating the disposal trail with the similar trail, it is possible to grasp the life and death state of the paper medium. The discard trail is held in the discard trail table 603 (FIG. 6) in the trail storage area 107.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a basic processing flow of trail search processing in the trail management apparatus 100 using the life / death information of a document. Note that step S301 and step S302 in FIG. 15 are the same as the processes with the same reference numerals in FIG.

  In step S303, the similar sentence search unit 102 advances the process to step S1501 when the similar trail can be acquired in step S302. If no similar trail has been acquired, the process proceeds to step S305. Note that steps S304 and S305 in FIG. 15 are the same as the processes of the same reference numerals in FIG.

  In step S1501, the transmission path identifying unit 103 searches the discard trail table 603 for a trail having the same identifier as the paper medium identifier for all the trails having the transmission destination medium identifier among the similar trails acquired in step S302. get. Then, the process proceeds to step S1502.

  In step S1502, the transmission path identification unit 103 adds the discard trail acquired in step S1501 to the trail acquired in step S302 using the discarded document identifier as the transmission source medium identifier, and the process proceeds to step S304.

  FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a specific example of the discard trail table 603. First, it is assumed that the similar trail shown in FIG. 14 can be acquired by the transmission path specifying unit 103 executing the processes of steps S301 and S302.

  In step S303, since the transmission path specifying unit 103 has the similar trail acquired in step S302, the process proceeds to step S1501.

  In step S1501, the transmission path specifying unit 103 sets a discard trail having the same identifier as the transmission destination medium identifiers of the trails 1402, 1404, and 1407 having the transmission destination medium identifier from the similar trails illustrated in FIG. The disposal trails 2101 and 2102 are acquired from the disposal trail table shown.

  In step S1502, the transmission path specifying unit 103 acquires the discard trails 2101 and 2102 acquired in step S1501 in step S302 using the identifiers of the discarded documents (“P1” and “P4”) as transmission source medium identifiers. Add to the trail.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a state of a similar trail after the process of step S1502 is performed. Discard trails 1601 and 1602 are added in association with the trail IDs 12 and 13. In subsequent steps S304 and S305, the same processing as that for other trails is executed for the discard trail.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to grasp the life and death of information finally transmitted by a physical medium such as a paper medium in the same manner as the transmission path.

  Next, the trail registration process in the trail registration unit 106 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a basic process flow of the trail registration process in the trail management apparatus 100. The trail registration process is normally executed at predetermined intervals.

  In step S1701, the trail registration unit 106 determines whether the trail to be registered is a discard trail. If the trail to be registered is not a discard trail, the process proceeds to step S1702. If it is a discard trail, the process proceeds to step S1705.

  In step S1702, the trail registration unit 106 converts the trail collected by the trail reception unit 105 into a format that can be stored in the trail storage area 107 in accordance with a conversion rule defined for each medium. At this time, when the trail is composed of a plurality of documents (for example, an e-mail attached with a plurality of attached files), the individual documents may be converted into a plurality of trails. You may comprise so that it may convert as one document.

  In step S <b> 1703, the trail registration unit 106 refers to the user information table 1802 in the organization information storage area 108 and converts an email address, a login name, and the like into items corresponding to the user. FIG. 19 shows an example of the user information table.

  In step S1704, the trail registration unit 106 registers the trail converted in step S1703 in the trail table 601 in the trail storage area 107. At the same time, the trail registration unit 106 associates the content with the identifier added to the trail and registers it in the similar sentence search index 602 and ends the process.

  In step S1705, the trail registration unit 106 refers to the user information table 1802 in the organization information storage area, and converts the discard operator identifier in the discard trail into the user name.

  In step S1706, the trail registration unit 106 registers the trail converted in step S1705 in the discard trail table 603 and ends the process.

  Here, the trail registration process will be specifically described using an example of the trail registration of an electronic mail shown in FIG.

  The trail 2001 is an example of the trail of the email collected by the email transmission / reception device 120 and received by the trail receiving unit 105.

  In step S1701, the trail registration unit 106 moves the process to step S1702 because the trail 2001 to be registered is an electronic mail trail.

  In step S1702, the trail registration unit 106 generates a record 2002 corresponding to the item in the trail table 601 for the trail 2001. As a common value for trails related to electronic mail transmission, “transmission” is set in the “operation” item of the record 2002, and “electronic” is set in “transmission source medium” and “transmission destination medium”. The “date and time” of the trail 2001 (2008/1/22/11: 14) is set to the “date and time” of the record 2002. “From” (endo@hoge.jp) of the trail 2001 is set to “transmission source” of the record 2002. “To” (nakamura@hoge.jp) and “Cc” (matui@hoge.jp, abe@hoge.jp) of the trail 2001 are set as the “communication destination” of the record 2002.

  In step S 1703, the trail registration unit 106 refers to the user information table in FIG. 19 and converts “transmission destination” and “transmission source” of the record 2002. The “transmission source” of the record 2002 is converted to “Endo”. The “communication destination” of the record 2002 is converted to “Nakamura”, “Matsui”, and “Abe”.

  In step S1704, the trail registration unit 106 acquires the trail ID determined by confirming the record 2002, registers it in the similar sentence search index 602 in association with the content of the trail 2001, and ends the process.

  Next, the trail registration process will be specifically described using the trail registration of the combined print / copy apparatus 130 shown in FIG.

  In step S1701, the trail registration unit 106 proceeds to step S1702 because the trail 2301 to be registered is a print trail.

  In step S <b> 1702, the trail registration unit 106 generates a record 2302 corresponding to the item in the trail table 601 for the trail 2301. As common values of trails related to the printing operation, “print” is set in the “operation” item of the record 2302, “electronic” is set in the “transmission source medium”, and “paper” is set in the “transmission destination medium”. The “date and time” of the trail 2301 (2008/5/22/13: 14) is set to the “date and time” of the record 2302. The “login name” (okubo) of the trail 2301 is set to the “transmission source” of the record 2302. The “paper identifier” (P 24) of the trail 2301 is set in the “transmission source medium identifier” of the record 2302.

  In step S1703, the trail registration unit 106 refers to the user information table of FIG. 19 and converts the value “okubo” of “transmission source” to “Okubo”.

  In step S1704, the trail registration unit 106 acquires the trail ID determined by confirming the record 2302, registers it in the similar sentence search index 602 in association with the content of the trail 2301, and ends the process.

  Next, in particular, the registration of the discard trail in the trail registration process will be described in detail using the example of the trail of the discard apparatus shown in FIG.

  The trail 2201 is an example of a discard trail collected by the discard device and received by the trail receiving unit 105.

  In step S1701, the trail registration unit 106 moves the process to step S1705 because the trail 2201 to be registered is a trail of the discarding device.

  In step S1705, the trail registration unit 106 refers to the user information table in FIG. 19 for the trail 2201, and converts “user ID” in the record 2202 into “name”. The user ID “000020” of the record 2201 is converted to the name “Endo”.

  In step S1706, the trail registration unit 106 registers the record 2202 in the discard trail table 603 and ends the process.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, trails in an electronic mail transmission / reception apparatus and a print / copy combined apparatus can be managed in a unified manner, and a similar sentence search can be performed. Further, although it is difficult to acquire the contents of the text as in the case of a discard trail, when the medium has a medium identifier that can individually identify the medium, the medium identifier can be associated with another trail. In addition, according to the present invention, when an information leakage case occurs, by querying the leakage content, search for data with the same or similar content from all the trail data such as e-mail, electronic document, print medium, etc. It is possible to generate information indicating the transmission path of those data.

  Although the embodiment has been described in detail above, the present invention can take an embodiment as a system, apparatus, method, program, storage medium, or the like. Specifically, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices, or may be applied to an apparatus composed of a single device.

  Each means and each step constituting the embodiment of the present invention described above can be realized by operating a program stored in a RAM, a ROM, or the like of a computer. This program and a computer-readable recording medium recording the program are included in the present invention.

  Further, the present invention can be implemented as, for example, a system, apparatus, method, program, or recording medium, and may be applied to an apparatus composed of a single device.

  The present invention supplies a software program for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments directly or remotely to a system or apparatus. In addition, this includes a case where the system or the computer of the apparatus is also achieved by reading and executing the supplied program code.

  Accordingly, since the functions of the present invention are implemented by computer, the program code installed in the computer also implements the present invention. In other words, the present invention includes a computer program itself for realizing the functional processing of the present invention. In that case, as long as it has the function of a program, it may be in the form of object code, a program executed by an interpreter, script data supplied to the OS, and the like.

  Further, the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the computer executing the read program. Furthermore, based on the instructions of the program, an OS or the like running on the computer performs part or all of the actual processing, and the functions of the above-described embodiments can be realized by the processing.

  As another method, a program read from a recording medium is first written in a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer. Then, based on the instructions of the program, the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion board or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of the trail management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the various terminals of the trail management apparatus of FIG. 1, a search terminal, an electronic mail transmission / reception apparatus, a printing / copying composite apparatus, a PC client management apparatus, and a disposal apparatus. It is a figure which shows the basic processing flow of the trail search process in a trail management apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the search screen which inputs an inquiry sentence. It is a figure which shows an example of the search result screen which displays a search result. It is a figure which shows the structure of a trail preservation | save area | region. It is a figure which shows the structural example of a trail table. It is a figure which shows an example of a similar sentence search result. It is a figure which shows an example of a similar trail. It is a figure which shows the basic processing flow of the transmission path | route identification process in a trail management apparatus. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the parent trail process in a trail management apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of an organization information table. It is a figure which shows the 2nd process flow of the parent trail search process performed in step S1004 of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the similar trail containing a medium identifier. It is a figure which shows the basic processing flow of the trail search process in the trail management apparatus using the life-and-death information of a document. It is a figure which shows the state of a similar trail after the process of step S1502 was implemented. It is a figure which shows the basic processing flow of the trail registration process in a trail management apparatus. It is a figure which shows the structure of an organization information storage area. It is a figure which shows an example of a user information table. It is a figure which shows an example of the trail registration of an email. It is a figure which shows the specific example of a disposal trail table. It is a figure which shows an example of the trail of a disposal apparatus. FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining trail registration of the combined print / copy apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Trail management apparatus 101 Search designation | designated part 102 Similar sentence search part 103 Transmission path | route identification part 104 Search result creation part 105 Trail receiving part 106 Trail registration part 107 Trail storage area 108 Organization information storage area 110 Search terminal 111 Browser 120 E-mail transmission / reception apparatus 121 E-mail Trail Sending Unit 130 Print / Copy Combined Device 131 Print / Copy Trail Sending Unit 140 PC Client Management Device 141 PC Client Trail Sending Unit 150 Discarding Device 151 Discarding Trail Sending Unit

Claims (9)

A plurality of transmission method information indicating an operation to which data is transmitted and a trail including a transmission source and a transmission destination of the data transmitted by the transmission method information. Storage means for storing the trail information included for each of the transmission method information and the content of the data about the trail included in the trail information ;
A receiving means for receiving input of search target data;
Search means for searching the trail information stored in the storage means for a plurality of trails of data matching or similar to the search target data received by the receiving means;
A specification for identifying a transmission path through which the data is transmitted by the plurality of transmission method information based on a transmission source and a transmission destination of a plurality of trails included in the trail information of the data stored in the storage unit Means,
Generating means for generating information indicating a transmission path including the transmission source and the transmission destination identified by the identification means;
Output means for displaying information indicating the transmission path generated by the generating means;
With
The specifying unit matches the data to be searched that is received by the receiving unit based on the plurality of transmission method information based on the transmission source and transmission destination included in the plurality of trails searched by the searching unit. An information processing apparatus that identifies a transmission path through which data having similar contents is transmitted . Determining means for determining whether a transmission destination of one of the plurality of trails searched by the searching means is included in a transmission source of another trail of the plurality of trails searched by the searching means; In addition,
The specifying unit is configured such that, by the determination unit, a transmission destination of one of the plurality of trails searched by the searching unit is a transmission source of another trail of the plurality of trails searched by the searching unit. If it is determined that the data is identical to or similar to the search target data received by the receiving unit, the data from the transmission destination of the one trail is transferred to the transmission source of the other trail. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a transmission path indicating transmission is specified. The trail included in the trail information stored in the storage means includes transmission source medium information indicating the type of medium in which the data is transmitted from the transmission destination to the transmission source, and the data from the transmission source to the transmission destination. Further including transmission destination medium information indicating the type of transmitted medium;
The medium type indicated in the transmission destination medium information of one of the plurality of trails searched by the search means is the transmission source medium information of another trail of the plurality of trails searched by the search means. Further comprising medium determination means for determining whether the medium type is the same as
The specifying means is a plurality of trails searched by the search means for the type of medium indicated in the transmission destination medium information of one trail among the plurality of trails searched by the search means by the medium determining means. If it is determined that the medium type is the same as the medium type indicated in the transmission source medium information of the other trail, data having contents matching or similar to the search target data is included in the one trail. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein a transmission path indicating transmission from a transmission source included in the other trail is specified. Organization storage means for storing organization information of a plurality of users;
Transmission destination determination means for determining whether the transmission destination of one of the plurality of trails searched by the search means is unknown;
Further comprising
When the transmission destination determination unit determines that the transmission destination in one of the plurality of trails searched by the search unit is unknown by the transmission destination determination unit, the transmission destination determination unit transmits the transmission destination. The type of medium indicated in the transmission destination medium information of one trail among the plurality of trails searched by the search means by the medium determination means is the same as the transmission source in the one trail for which is determined to be unknown The transmission destination in the one trail according to the transmission source in the other trails of the plurality of trails searched by the search means determined to be and the organization information stored in the organization storage means The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein a transmission path is specified by estimating the transmission path. The searching means, wherein the specifying means determines that the medium type indicated in the transmission destination medium information of one trail among the plurality of trails searched by the searching means is the same by the medium determining means. Of the transmission sources in the other trails of the plurality of trails retrieved by the above, in the organization information stored in the organization storage means, the transmission source of the closest distance from the transmission source in the one trail, the The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the information processing apparatus estimates a transmission destination in one trail. The trail included in the trail information stored in the storage means includes a transmission source medium identifier for identifying a medium in which discarded data is transmitted from a transmission destination to a transmission source, and the data is transmitted from the transmission source to the transmission destination. And further storing a transmission destination medium identifier for identifying the recorded medium,
The specifying means specifies the transmission path of the discarded data based on a plurality of trail transmission source medium identifiers and transmission destination medium identifiers included in the trail information stored in the storage means. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5 , wherein the information processing apparatus is characterized in that: The medium processing apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 6, characterized in that on at least one of the electronic data and paper. A plurality of transmission method information indicating an operation to which data is transmitted and a trail including a transmission source and a transmission destination of the data transmitted by the transmission method information. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus comprising storage means for storing trail information included for each of the transmission method information and data content of the trail included in the trail information ,
An accepting step for accepting input of search target data;
A search step for searching a plurality of trails of data having contents matching or similar to the data to be searched for receiving input in the receiving step, from the trail information stored in the storage unit,
A transmission path through which the data is transmitted by the plurality of transmission method information based on a transmission source and a transmission destination of a plurality of trails included in the data trail information stored in the storage unit by the specifying unit A specific process for identifying
A generating step for generating information indicating a transmission path including the transmission source and the transmission destination identified by the identifying step;
An output step in which the output means outputs to display information indicating the transmission path generated in the generation step;
With
The specifying step matches the search target data received in the receiving step by the plurality of transmission method information based on the transmission source and transmission destination included in the plurality of trails searched in the searching step. Alternatively, a control method for an information processing apparatus, wherein a transmission path through which data having similar contents is transmitted is specified . A plurality of transmission method information indicating an operation to which data is transmitted and a trail including a transmission source and a transmission destination of the data transmitted by the transmission method information. A program that can be read and executed by an information processing device that includes storage means for storing trail information included for each of the transmission method information and data content of the trail included in the trail information ,
The information processing apparatus;
A receiving means for receiving input of search target data;
Search means for searching the trail information stored in the storage means for a plurality of trails of data matching or similar to the search target data received by the receiving means;
A specification for identifying a transmission path through which the data is transmitted by the plurality of transmission method information based on a transmission source and a transmission destination of a plurality of trails included in the trail information of the data stored in the storage unit Means,
Generating means for generating information indicating a transmission path including the transmission source and the transmission destination identified by the identification means;
Function as output means for outputting information indicating the transmission path generated by the generating means ,
The specifying unit matches the data to be searched that is received by the receiving unit based on the plurality of transmission method information based on the transmission source and transmission destination included in the plurality of trails searched by the searching unit. or program data content similar is characterized that you identify pathways transmitted.

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