Patent ID: 8281365

Claim:
An information management method comprising: receiving a request in an operation request receiving unit for a certain operation of certain electronic information associated with operation right information that defines a permitted operation for each user; determining in a first control unit, based on the operation right associated with the certain electronic information, whether or not it is permitted for a user who is a request source of the certain operation to execute the certain operation in an operation executing unit; if it is determined in the first control unit that the user is permitted to execute the certain operation, starting to execute the certain operation in the operation executing unit; determining in a second control unit whether or not at least one of (i) a history of previous operations, executed by the user, of the certain electronic information and (ii) a history of previous operations, executed by the user, of a location associated with the certain electronic information meets a predetermined condition, the predetermined condition including at least one of a condition that the user who is the request source of the certain operation operated the certain electronic information within a first time period before the present time period, and a condition that the user who is the request source of the certain operation operated the location associated with the certain electronic information within a second time period before the present time period; and if it is determined in the second control unit that the at least one of (i) the history of previous operations, executed by the user, of the certain electronic information and (ii) the history of previous operations, executed by the user, of the location associated with the certain electronic information meets the predetermined condition, starting to execute the certain operation in the operation executing unit, wherein at least one of the operation request receiving unit, the first control unit, the operation executing unit, and the second control unit are implemented with a processor.