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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2012
Daisuke Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Miki Oouchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masafumi Nagao, Kanagawa, JP;
Osamu Torii, Kanagawa, JP;
Reiji Yukumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Asakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Miki Oouchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masafumi Nagao, Kanagawa, JP;
Osamu Torii, Kanagawa, JP;
Reiji Yukumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Asakawa, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A document management apparatus delivers a to-be-delivered document to a delivery destination and collects information about browsing history of the document. The document management apparatus includes: a delivery-pattern determining unit; a delivery-information generating unit; a document delivery unit that delivers the document by transmitting the information of the delivery pattern to a network address of the delivery destination; and a browsing-history management unit that acquires information about browsing history. The delivery-pattern determining unit, when the type of the device is a type not adapted to a function of collecting information about browsing history, determines that a pattern for delivering a program for implementing collection of the information about browsing history together with the document as the delivery pattern. Otherwise, the delivery-information generating unit generates associating information that associates the document with the program such that the program is to be executed when the document is browsed.