Document storing and managing system

Patent 5819295 Issued on October 6, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 26, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Application

No. 721077 filed on 09/26/1996

US Classes:

707/203, Version management717/122Source code version

Examiners

Primary: Black, Thomas G.
Assistant: Wallace, Michael J. Jr.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Lowe Hauptman Gopstein Gilman & Berner

Foreign Patent References

59-123071 JP. 07/22/1984
2-304646 JP. 12/22/1990
4-250563 JP. 09/22/1992
5-89173 JP. 04/22/1993
7-160560 JP. 06/22/1995

International Class

G06F 003/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-10-30 JP

Abstract

A document storing and managing system for storing plural electronic documents in each of folders according to classifications and managing the stored electronic documents in a unit of the folder has a folder managing means for managing attributes of the electronic documents included in each of the folders, a document version managing means for managing information as to version of the electronic documents included in each of the folder, and a folder version managing means for managing a correspondence relation between a version of the folder and a version of each of the electronic documents included in the folder. The document storing and managing system of this invention may set and manage a version of a folder while keeping adjustability with a version of each document.

Other References

Sachweh et al., "Version Management for tightly integrated Software Engineering Environments", IEEE, pp. 21-31 (1995)
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