Patent ID: 8880570

Claim:
An information processing system comprising: a first information processing apparatus; a second information processing apparatus; and a third information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus includes a collecting unit that collects a plurality of information to be transmitted to the third information processing apparatus via the second information processing apparatus, a generating unit that generates, a first file comprising a first type of information from among the plurality of information collected by the collecting unit, an attribute specifying the first type of information and a first deleting condition, which is a condition under which the first file is to be deleted by the second information processing apparatus, and generates a second file comprising a second type of information from among the plurality of information collected by the collecting unit, an attribute specifying the second type of information and a second deleting condition, which is a condition under which the second file is to be deleted by the third information processing apparatus, and a first transmitting unit that transmits the first file and the second file generated by the generating unit to the second information processing apparatus, wherein the second information processing apparatus includes a first receiving unit that receives the first and the second file transmitted by the first transmitting unit of the first information processing apparatus, a first storing unit that stores the first and the second file received by the first receiving unit, a second transmitting unit that transmits the second file stored in the first storing unit to the third information processing apparatus, and a first deleting unit that deletes the first file from the first storing unit on the basis of the first deleting condition included in the first file stored in the first storing unit, and wherein the third information processing apparatus includes a second receiving unit that receives the second file transmitted by the second transmitting unit of the second information processing apparatus, a second storing unit that stores the second file received by the second receiving unit, and a second deleting unit that deletes the second file from the second storing unit on the basis of the second deleting condition included in the second file stored in the second storing unit.