Patent ID: 8561128
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A document management system configured to manage an access to a file, the document management system comprising: at least one micro-processor, the micro-processor being programmed to control one or more of: a selection unit configured to select a virtual security policy, which is previously provided for each device; an acquisition unit configured to acquire access authority information for defining an authority for accessing the file based on the virtual security policy selected by the selection unit and authentication information about a user who has set the virtual security policy; a conversion unit configured to convert, based on the access authority information acquired by the acquisition unit, the virtual security policy into a real security policy that can be commonly interpreted by the document management system, wherein the converted real security policy corresponds to the authority of the user who has set the virtual security policy; a management unit configured to set the real security policy converted by the conversion unit on the file to manage an access to the file, and a file storage unit configured to set the virtual security policy selected by the selection unit on the file and then to store the file according to an environmental setting representing a timing of a conversion of the security policy by the conversion unit, wherein, on the timing according to the environmental setting, the conversion unit converts the virtual security policy into the real security policy and the management unit set the real security policy on the file.