Patent ID: 8478724
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information life cycle management system which comprises: a plurality of information media controlling apparatuses that communicate with each other; and an information management server apparatus, wherein at least one of the information media controlling apparatus includes a management file management table storing unit which stores a management file management table in which a child management file including a management ID and an electronic data main body is written, a unit which transmits new registration request information including an electronic data main body of a management target, to the information management server apparatus, which includes a unit which, when receiving the new registration request information, issues a management ID and an entity ID for the electronic data main body, based on the new registration request information, registers the management ID and the entity ID, in association with each other, in a system management table stored in a system management table storing unit, and registers the entity ID and the electronic data main body in a data original copy management table stored in a data original copy management table storing unit, a unit which transmits replication registration request information including a management ID associated with electronic data of a replication registration target and a post office box ID associated with an information media controlling apparatus of a replication acquisition destination, to the information management server apparatus, which includes a unit which, when the receiving replication registration request information, issues a child management ID different from the management ID in the replication registration request information, associates the child management ID with the management ID in the replication registration request information, from among management IDs written in the system management table and registers the issued child management ID in the system management table, associates the child management ID with the post office box ID in the replication registration request information to register the child management ID and the post office box ID in a post office box management table stored in a post office box management table storing unit, and transmits replication registration processing result information including the child management ID to the information media controlling apparatus, a unit which transmits a post office box check request including the post office box ID to the information management server apparatus, which includes a unit which, when receiving the post office box check request, reads the child management ID associated with the post office box ID in the post office box check request, from the post office box management table, and transmits post office box confirmation information including at least the child management ID, to the information media controlling apparatus, a unit which, when receiving the post office box confirmation information including the child management ID associated with the post office box ID in the post office box check request from the information management server apparatus by transmitting the post office box check request, transmits a replication acquisition request including a child management ID associated with a management file of a replication acquisition target from among child management IDs in the post office box confirmation information, to the information management server apparatus, which includes a unit which, when receiving the replication acquisition request, reads an entity ID associated with the child management ID in the replication acquisition request, from the system management table, reads an electronic data main body associated with the entity ID from the data original copy management table, generates a child management file including the child management ID and the electronic data main body, deletes the child management ID from the post office box management table, and transmits the child management file to the information media controlling apparatus, and a unit which, when receiving the child management file including the child management ID in the replication acquisition request from the information management server apparatus by transmitting the replication acquisition request, writes the child management file in the management file management table.