Patent ID: 8788697
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A file transmitting apparatus which moves a file to another apparatus, said file transmitting apparatus comprising: a storage unit which stores the file; a receiving unit operable to receive, from the other apparatus, a file acquisition request, which is an acquisition request for requesting transfer of the file and which specifies, from among data included in the file, data within a range in which the data is neither deleted nor made unusable; a transmitting unit operable to, when the file acquisition request has been received, divide the file stored in said storage unit into first data and second data, and transmit, to the other apparatus, only the first data from the first and second data, the first data being data within the range specified in the file acquisition request received by said receiving unit and the second data being data not within the range specified in the file acquisition request received by said receiving unit; a limitation unit operable to delete or make unusable the first data being within the range transmitted by said transmitting unit, from among the data included in the file stored in said storage unit; and a notification unit operable to notify the other apparatus of a usable range which indicates the second data and which is a range in which the data included in the file is neither deleted nor made unusable by said limitation unit, from among the data included in the file stored in said storage unit.