Patent ID: 8463804

Claim:
A file processing apparatus comprising: a first recorder recording a feature of each file; a second recorder recording an execution history of each operation job; a receiver configured to receive an input indicative of an operation job to be executed, wherein a file of the operation job to be executed is not specified; a searcher configured to search content of the second recorder to identify an executed file, wherein an operation job of the executed file is similar to the operation job to be executed; an extractor configured to extract a feature of the executed file identified by the searcher, wherein the searcher is further configured to search content of the first recorder to identify an analogous file by determining that the analogous file has a feature that matches the extracted feature of the executed file; a retriever configured to retrieve said analogous file; and a microprocessor configured to execute the operation job to be executed for the retrieved analogous file, wherein the input indicative of the operation job to be executed includes an input indicative of a box selected and an input indicative of a file present in the selected box.