Patent ID: 9104652
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A document management apparatus comprising: a generating unit that generates a new document from a base document; a setting unit that sets the new document as a document which belongs to a document group to which the base document belongs, that performs, if the base document does not belong to any document group, setting for creating a document group to which the base document and the new document belong, and that performs, if the base document belongs to a certain document group, setting for adding the new document to the certain document group; a determining unit that determines, if a document which belongs to a document group created by the setting unit is selected, whether or not the document group to which the selected document belongs includes a document which was generated or last viewed less than a reference time period ago; and a deleting unit that deletes the selected document if the document group to which the selected document belongs does not include a document which was generated or last viewed less than the reference time period ago, and that does not delete the selected document if the document group to which the selected document belongs includes a document which was generated or last viewed less than the reference time period ago.