Patent ID: 11943411
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A storage method comprising:
determining whether instructions, for adding index information different from information that is based on a document to scan data generated by scanning the document with a reading device, are inputted;
accepting, after the instructions are determined to be inputted, a selection of the index information for adding to the scan data;
determining whether the selected index information is related to management information managed by the reading device;
accepting, after the selected index information is determined to be related to the management information, a selection input of first information, which is related to the management information, as the index information for adding to the scan data;
generating the scan data by scanning of the document with the reading device; and
assigning, as the index information, the first information accepted by the selection input to the generated scan data and storing the generated scan data with the index information in a storage device,
wherein the first information includes any one account of at least a personal name, a phone number, an e-mail address, a fax number, a home or place of work address, a name of a place of work, a post, a (Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and a (Social Networking Service (SNS).