Patent ID: 7552259
Filing Date: 2009-06-23
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A document management system for registering and managing a document in a database of a relational database server in response to a client's request, said system comprising: a storage medium that stores the database; judging means for judging whether or not a capacity of the database has reached a predetermined limited capacity; and inhibiting means for adding to the database an identifier indicating that the database is in an editing-inhibited state and notifying the client that all editing actions, including deletion by the client, to all documents registered in the database are inhibited, when said judging means judges that the capacity of the database has reached the predetermined limited capacity, wherein the editing actions, including deletion by the client, to all documents registered in the database are not inhibited when said judging means judges that the capacity of the database has not reached the predetermined limited capacity, and wherein the editing actions include at least the registration and deletion of the document in the database, and registration and deletion are inhibited if the editing actions are inhibited, thereby preventing any one of the documents registered in the database from being deleted.