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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2007
Applicant:
Yoshinobu Kitamaru, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshinobu Kitamaru, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In order to read data from an external storage medium and automatically sort the data into a plurality of folders to manage the data, a plurality of files sorted into a plurality of folders are read from a plurality of external storage media, file attribute information of the files is extracted, and the read files are sorted into a plurality of folders based on the extracted file attribute information and stored in a storage unit.