Patent ID: 8972367
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing system comprising a server apparatus and a client apparatus which is connected to the server apparatus via a network, wherein the server apparatus includes a data storage area and manages data by registering the data in a managed group of data, wherein management of data in a managed group in the server apparatus is different from management of data in a folder in the client apparatus, wherein the client apparatus comprises: a memory and a processor; a managing device configured to manage a plurality of data in the client apparatus, wherein the plurality of data has corresponding data names and is managed by a folder having a folder name; a designation device configured to designate at least one folder from folders which already exist in the client apparatus; an extracting device configured to extract the folder name of the folder designated by said designation device; and a sending device configured to send the folder name extracted by said extraction device and data managed by the folder which is designated by said designation device to the server apparatus, and wherein the server apparatus comprises: a memory and a processor; a receiving device configured to receive the folder name and the data from the client apparatus; a generating device configured to generate a managed group which has a managed group name which includes at least a part of the received folder name; and a registration device configured to register the data under a data name which includes at least a part of a name of the received data, wherein the data is registered in the managed group with the managed group name generated by the generating device.