Patent ID: 8356043

Claim:
A file management device comprising: a reading unit to read biometric information of a body and to detect a moving direction of the body; one or more processors configured to: register a first biometric information of a body of a first user read by the reading unit in a storage device; add attribute information based on the first biometric information to a first file; judge whether or not a second biometric information of the body of the first user read by the reading unit is coincident with the first biometric information; determine whether the moving direction of the body for the reading unit in a reading operation based on the second biometric information is a first moving direction or a second moving direction when the second biometric information is coincident with the first biometric information, the first moving direction is a direction that the body moves toward a first direction from a second direction and the second moving direction is a direction that the body moves toward the second direction from the first direction; search the first file associated with the attribute information when the moving direction of the body is the first moving direction while search a second file when the moving direction of the body is the second moving direction, the second file being different from the first file; and a display unit to display, when the second biometric information is not coincident with the first biometric information, a list of accessible files.