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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2007
Applicants:

Hisashi Ikeda, Kunitachi, JP;

Naohiro Furukawa, Tachikawa, JP;

Kosuke Konishi, Hachioji, JP;

Tsutomu Tashiro, Fujisawa, JP;

Shoichi Nakagami, Miyoshi, JP;

Inventors:

Hisashi Ikeda, Kunitachi, JP;

Naohiro Furukawa, Tachikawa, JP;

Kosuke Konishi, Hachioji, JP;

Tsutomu Tashiro, Fujisawa, JP;

Shoichi Nakagami, Miyoshi, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Provided is an information management method for use in an information management system that includes a coordinate pointing device for identifying a paper medium, and a contents server for managing a digital document, and holds an attribute of the digital document and an attribute of a paper document obtained by printing the digital document on the paper medium, the information management method comprising: judging whether a paper document identified by the coordinate pointing device is a master of a document by referring to an attribute of the paper document; and permitting, when it is judged that the identified paper document is the master of the document, to update information annotated to the identified paper document in a digital document corresponding to the paper document to which the information has been annotated.


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