Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080313107 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Data elements are classified into a plurality of folders in accordance with classification conditions on the basis of each of a plurality of metadata elements. Data elements in each of the folders are further classified into a plurality of folders on the basis of a metadata element different from the metadata element associated with the folder. This operation is repeated in accordance with the number of metadata elements to organize a folder system having a tree structure. When a classification result based on a given one of the metadata elements is present in only one folder in the organized folder system and is not present in other folders arranged in the same layer as that of the folder, the other folders are deleted. | 12-18-2008 |
20090132495 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - This invention allows obtaining desired data even at a copy destination by only a simple copy operation irrespective of differences of search functions upon copying a search folder to an external device. This invention is directed to an information processing method in an information processing apparatus connected to an external device. In this method, when an instruction to copy a search folder to the external device is input, whether or not the search conditions of the designated search folder are executable at the external device is determined, a folder to be transmitted to the external device is generated, data are searched based on a search condition which is determined not to be executable. After data IDs are set in the generated folder so that the obtained by the search data can be acquired via the generated folder, the folder is transmitted to the external device. | 05-21-2009 |
20100076975 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SEARCH METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a search execution unit configured to execute a search on the basis of a search condition, an item specification unit configured to specify particular data as an item from data included in a result of the search executed by the search execution unit on the basis of the search condition, an item storage unit configured to store the item specified by the item specification unit in a storage apparatus, a search result generation unit configured to generate a search result without data overlap on the basis of data included in a result of a search executed by the search execution unit on the basis of a new search condition and the item stored in the storage apparatus, and a search result display unit configured to display the search result generated by the search result generation unit. | 03-25-2010 |
20100146017 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A folder relationship holding unit ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100198874 | DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - In a data management method using a hierarchical folder structure where an item such as data or a folder can be registered in multiple folders, attribute information is appended to each relational data piece that represents a pair of a child item that is either data or a folder registered in a folder and a parent folder in which the child item has been registered. This attribute information is referred to when a single child item has been registered in multiple parent folders, in order to select one of the multiple parent folders. By selecting a relational data piece based on the attribute information so that each child item can be registered in a single parent folder, at least part of the hierarchical folder structure is converted into a tree structure where a single child item belongs to a single folder. | 08-05-2010 |
20110082886 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus acquires a first metadata value of first metadata from a content to be assigned metadata, performs a first search from contents by the first metadata using the first metadata value as a search condition, acquires a second metadata value of second metadata different from the first metadata from one or more contents included in a set of a result of the first search, performs a second search from the contents by the second metadata using the second metadata value as a search condition, finds a degree of similarity between the set of the result of the first search and a set of a result of the second search, and assigns, according to the degree of similarity, the second metadata value as metadata of the content to be assigned metadata. | 04-07-2011 |
20130241953 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The number of times of designation with respect to a position on a map is counted, and the number of times of designation is managed in association with the position and the map. If the number of times of designation with respect to a position of interest on the map exceeds a threshold value, a position that is managed in association with a large-area map including an area shown by the map is specified, and an object in the specified position on the large-area map is highlighted on the large-area map. | 09-19-2013 |
20150095280 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, DATA SYNCHRONIZATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA AMONG A PLURALITY OF DATABASES - In a method for writing data having been subjected to transaction processing in a synchronization source database to data in a synchronization destination database, a synchronization processing management unit of the synchronization destination database requests, as synchronization target data, first data that is a part of the data having been subjected to the transaction processing from the synchronization source database, receives at least the first data from the synchronization source database, performs first synchronization processing on the first data in a cache memory, and performs second synchronization processing on second data, in the synchronization destination database, which has been processed in a same transaction as a transaction in which the first data has been processed in the synchronization source database. | 04-02-2015 |