Patent ID: 7222134
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A filing system in which a data processing apparatus is connected to a file server via a network, comprising: a data capturing unit provided in the data processing apparatus and configured to capture image data of a document into the data processing apparatus; a data storing unit configured to store the captured image data in an image storage medium of the data processing apparatus; an access management unit configured to correlate owner identifications of users who use the data processing apparatus to process the image data, with the stored image data in the image storage medium, to correlate re-use owner identifications of users who are at least one of a user unit and a group unit allowed to retrieve or read the stored image data, with the stored image data in the image storage medium, and to allow the stored image data to be accessed when any of the owner identifications or the re-use owner identifications correlated with the stored image data is verified; a data output unit configured to output the image data in a readable manner by retrieving the stored image data of the image storage medium when the access to the stored image data is allowed by the access management unit; an owner identification acquiring unit configured to acquire the owner identifications; and a re-use owner identification acquiring unit configured to acquire one or more of the re-use owner identifications; wherein at least one of the owner identification acquiring unit and the re-use owner identification acquiring unit include: wherein the access management unit is configured to store the image data from the data capturing unit into the image storage medium, and to correlate each of the owner identifications of the owner identification acquiring unit and the re-use owner identifications of the re-use owner identification acquiring unit with the stored image data each time the image data is stored in the image storage medium; wherein the owner identification acquiring unit and the re-use owner identification acquiring unit are configured to acquire the owner identifications or the re-use owner identifications in a sequence of selections from the displayed list of the owner identifications or the re-use owner identifications by the selection input unit, wherein one of the owner identifications or the re-use owner identifications acquired in said sequence is selected from among the displayed list on the display screen when the corresponding selection button of the display screen is depressed; wherein the data output unit is configured to output the image data in a readable manner by retrieving the stored image of the image storage medium correlated with the selected one of the owner identifications or the re-use owner identifications; wherein the owner identification acquiring unit and the re-use owner identification acquiring unit are configured to acquire a preset owner identification when the data capturing unit is provided in the data processing apparatus having at least one of a copying function, a facsimile function and a scanning function and configured to allow a user to operate the data processing apparatus when the owner identifications or the re-use owner identifications are acquired; and wherein the access management unit is configured to add or change the owner identifications or the re-use owner identifications.