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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2009
Masaki Tasaka, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Ota, Saitama, JP;
Yuichiro Sakuta, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaki Tasaka, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Ota, Saitama, JP;
Yuichiro Sakuta, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A document management apparatus is disclosed. Document storing instruction information is acquired to instruct to store a second document information including a second information element, which is generated by copying a first information element included in a first document information. The second information element included in the second document information is acquired based on the acquired document storing instruction information. Then, it is instructed to store the second information element. Next, copy originator information concerning the first information element, which is included in the document storing instruction information and is a copy originator of the second information element, is acquired. Then, it is instructed to store association information for associating the second information element with the first information element based on the acquired copy originator information.