Patent application EP20180142A (EP), filed 2020-06-16
Publication number: EP3757917A1
Title: INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CARRIER MEANS
Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a carrier means. The information processing apparatus (14) manages a user detected by a detection unit (48) as a participant, allows the detected user to select a shared site, and suggests one or more candidates of participant to be managed by the participant management unit (44) based on the selected shared site.
IPC codes: G06F  16/    16            A I
G06Q  10/    10            A I
G06Q  50/    00            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: An information processing apparatus (14) shared by a plurality of users comprising:
number: 2
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of claim 1, wherein the shared site management unit (42) selects the one or more candidates of participant for suggestion, based on information associating the shared site selected by the information processing apparatus (14) and the participant.
number: 3
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of claim 2, wherein the shared site management unit (42) suggests one or more users of the shared site as the one or more candidates of participant, based on information of the users of the shared site obtained from an external service, using external service settings information associated with the detected user.
number: 4
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of claim 2 or 3, wherein the shared site management unit (42):
number: 5
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the shared site management unit (42):
number: 6
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of claim 5, wherein the shared site management unit (42) excludes a participant already managed as the participant by the participant management unit (44) from the suggested candidates of participant displayed on the participant suggestion screen (1050).
number: 7
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the shared site management unit (42) selects all of the suggested candidates of participant as the participant to be managed by the participant management unit (44).
number: 8
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the shared site management unit (42) displays a shared site save screen (1050) for accepting an operation by the user to save a file to the shared site and an operation by the user to transmit an email to provide information for accessing the saved file.
number: 9
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of claim 8, wherein the shared site management unit (42) sets the participant as a destination of the email.
number: 10
text: The information processing apparatus (14) of claim 8 or 9, wherein the shared site management unit (42) sets at least one candidate of the one or more candidates of participant, not managed as the participant by the participant management unit (44), as the destination of the email.
number: 11
text: An information processing system (1) comprising:
number: 12
text: An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus (14) shared by a plurality of users, the method comprising:
number: 13
text: A carrier means carrying computer readable code for controlling a computer system to carry out the method of claim 12.
Office action: search_report, dated 2020-12-30
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Final disposition: pending (2020-12-30)