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Document management system for displaying and shifting a plurality of regions

Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1995-11-22
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Granted: 1998-04-07
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Expires: 2015-11-22
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Abstract

Abstract A document management system in which a list of sorting information displayed on a display for sorting document data into corresponding individual files of the document data can be changed as desired by the user. File names ("internal medicine", "pediatry", etc. ) set in a file management table are displayed in rectangular zones of a window displayed on the display. When the user desires to change the arrangement of the displayed file names, he specifies the rectangular zone from which one file name is to be shifted and another rectangular zone to which that file name is to be shifted. By so specifying, a file location table provided for management of the displayed file arrangement is changed to change the arrangement of the file names displayed in the window.

Inventors

  • 👤 Fumiaki Yasunaga

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-07 11:12
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/10; G06F16/90; G06F16/93; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99931; Y10S707/99937; Y10S715/00; Y10S715/961; Y10S715/965; Y10S715/966; Y10S715/968

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim 92 words
A document management system comprising: display means for displaying a plurality of regions; specifying means for specifying a first region and a second region from among said regions displayed by said display means; memory means for storing information corresponding to said first region specified by said specifying means; first shifting means for shifting said first region specified by said specifying means to a position of said second region specified by said specifying means; and second shifting means for shifting all or some of the plurality of regions not specified by the means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 92 words
A document management system comprising: display means for displaying a plurality of regions; specifying means for specifying a first region and a second region from among said regions displayed by said display means; memory means for storing information corresponding to said first region specified by said specifying means; first shifting means for shifting said first region specified by said specifying means to a position of said second region specified by said specifying means; and second shifting means for shifting all or some of the plurality of regions not specified by the means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 81 words
A document management system according to claim 1, further comprising document information means for (i) storing a plurality of documents, each of the plurality of documents corresponding to one of the plurality of regions, and a file location table indicated a correspondence between said each of said plurality of documents and said each of said plurality of regions and (ii) rewriting the file location table in accordance with shifting operations performed by said first shifting means and said second shifting means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 119 words
A document management system comprising: display means for displaying a plurality of closed regions; specifying means for specifying a first closed region and a second closed region from among said closed regions displayed by said display means; memory means for storing information corresponding to said first closed region specified by said specifying means; first shifting means for shifting said first closed region specified by said specifying means to a position of said second closed region specified by said specifying means; and second shifting means for shifting all or some of the plurality of closed regions not specified by the first shifting means in accordance with the first closed region and the second closed region selected by the selecting means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 119 words
A document management system comprising: display means for displaying a plurality of closed regions; specifying means for specifying a first closed region and a second closed region from among said closed regions displayed by said display means; memory means for storing information corresponding to said first closed region specified by said specifying means; first shifting means for shifting said first closed region specified by said specifying means to a position of said second closed region specified by said specifying means; and second shifting means for shifting all or some of the plurality of closed regions not specified by the first shifting means in accordance with the first closed region and the second closed region selected by the selecting means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 84 words
A document management system according to claim 3, further comprising document information storing means for (i) storing a plurality of documents, each of the plurality of documents corresponding to one of the plurality of closed regions, and a file location table indicating a correspondence between said each of said plurality of documents and said each of said plurality of closed regions and (ii) rewriting the file location table in accordance with shifting operations performed by said first shifting means and said second shifting means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 112 words
A document management system comprising: display means for displaying a plurality of regions; specifying means for specifying a first region and a second region from among said regions displayed by said display means; memory means for storing information corresponding to said fist region specified by said specifying means; first shifting means for shifting said first region specified by said specifying means to a position of said second region specified by said specifying means; and second shifting means for shifting a third region located between said first region specified by said specifying means and said second region specified by said specifying means and also shifting said second region specified by said specifying means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 112 words
A document management system comprising: display means for displaying a plurality of regions; specifying means for specifying a first region and a second region from among said regions displayed by said display means; memory means for storing information corresponding to said fist region specified by said specifying means; first shifting means for shifting said first region specified by said specifying means to a position of said second region specified by said specifying means; and second shifting means for shifting a third region located between said first region specified by said specifying means and said second region specified by said specifying means and also shifting said second region specified by said specifying means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 81 words
A document management system according to claim 5, wherein, when an address of said first region specified by said specifying means is smaller than an address of said second region specified by said specifying means, regions whose addresses are located between the address of said first region specified by said specifying means and the address of said second region specified by said specifying means and also said second region specified by said specifying means are shifted in a one-address decreasing direction.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 81 words
A document management system according to claim 5, wherein, when an address of said first region specified by said specifying means is larger than an address of said second region specified by said specifying means, regions whose addresses are located between the address of said first region specified by said specifying means and the address of said second region specified by said specifying means and also the second region specified by said specifying means are shifted in a one-address increasing direction.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 81 words
A document management system according to claim 5, further comprising document information storing means for (i) storing a plurality of documents, each of the plurality of documents corresponding to one of the plurality of regions, and a file location table indicating a correspondence between said each of said plurality of documents and said each of said plurality of regions and (ii) rewriting the file location table in accordance with shifting operations performed by said first shifting means and said shifting means.

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