Patent Document ID: 9275020
Application ID: 14168233

Base Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a calculation section configured to calculate similarity among a plurality of documents; an identification section configured to identify, in response to a change made to a first document, a second document having a similarity greater than or equal to a first criterion as compared to the first document before the change; a notification section configured to notify a user associated with the second document that the first document has been changed, in response to the change to the first document; and a necessity acquiring section configured to acquire necessity information indicating whether one or more other documents need to be changed due to the change to the first document, wherein the notification section further notifies the user associated with the second document of the necessity information.

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Claim 10:
10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information processing apparatus functions as a management apparatus that manages a plurality of source files created in program development, and the calculation section is configured to calculate a similarity among the plurality of documents that are at least one or more source codes of the plurality of source files managed by the management apparatus in response to a check made on an updated version of one source file.