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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Applicant:
Mikihiko Kamekawa, Matsudo, JP;
Inventor:
Mikihiko Kamekawa, Matsudo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A check-out document cannot be updated by another operator unless an operator who checked out that document cancels the check-out status or checks in the document. To remove this inconvenience, document data is set in an exclusive state with respect to another user, and a password required to cancel the exclusive state is generated. The exclusive state of the document data is canceled based on an instruction of a user who instructed the exclusive state or an instruction of the other user with the password, thus updating the document data.