Patent Document ID: 8339645
Application ID: 12469921
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A managing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store a temporary object that has attribute information specified and that does not include partial-area data on the basis of instructions from a first user at a first time; an object receiving unit configured to receive from a second user at a second time an object that includes partial-area data extracted from document data and that has attribute information specified, wherein the partial-area data extracted from the document data includes image data extracted from document data that is input through a scanning process or a printing process in an image processing apparatus, and wherein the first time precedes the second time; a searching unit configured to search the storage unit for the temporary object having attribute information specified that matches at least one piece of attribute information of the object received by the object receiving unit; and a notifying unit configured to notify the first user that the object corresponding to the temporary object stored in the storage unit has been received in response to a search result generated by the searching unit indicating that there is a match.