Patent Document ID: 20050144190
Application ID: 10951424
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An information managing method of managing a plurality of information files stored in at least one of information storage sections of an information processing apparatus or another information processing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network, wherein the plurality of information files are managing objects, the method comprising: (a) acquiring one or two classification standards which are standards to classify the information files; (b) selecting one of classification units of each of the acquired classification standards; (c) classifying the information files which are managing objects for each of the acquired classification standards and the selected one of the classification units; (d) producing a file object which represents each classified information file; (e) disposing and displaying the classification unit in a one-dimensional direction on a display screen of a display device, and disposing the file object produced for each classification unit in another one-dimensional direction, in a case where one classification standard is acquired; and (f) disposing and displaying the produced file object of the information file in each of two-dimensionally divided regions in a case where two classification standards are acquired, the two-dimensionally divided regions being obtained by dividing the display screen for each classification unit of one classification standard in a predetermined one-dimensional direction and for each classification unit of the other classification standard in the other predetermined one-dimensional direction.