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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2010
Hajime Futatsugi, Tokyo, JP;
Hajime Futatsugi, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.
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