Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
FILE EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND MOBILE DEVICE |
| Document Number: |
20110307797 |
| Publication Date: |
December 15, 2011 |
| Appl. No: |
13/149191 |
| Application Filed: |
May 31, 2011 |
| Abstract: |
A mobile device includes a file information acquiring unit, a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired on a display unit, a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in a storage unit, a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to another mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit, a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit, and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device. |
| Inventors: |
IMAMICHI, Takahiro (Kanagawa, JP); Harada, Takaaki (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Claim: |
1. A mobile device, comprising: a file information acquiring unit that acquires file information representing a file managed by a server on a network from the server; a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired by the file information acquiring unit on a display unit; a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in an internal storage unit; a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to another mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit; a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit; and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device. |
| Claim: |
2. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the file information includes text information representing a bibliographic item of an image file and a thumbnail of an image. |
| Claim: |
3. The mobile device according to claim 2, wherein the file information acquiring unit comprises: a text information acquiring unit that acquires the text information; and a thumbnail acquiring unit that acquires the thumbnail after the text information is acquired by the text information acquiring unit. |
| Claim: |
4. The mobile device according to claim 3, further comprising: a thumbnail presence determination unit that determines whether or not a thumbnail corresponding to the text information acquired by the text information acquiring unit is stored in the internal storage unit, wherein the thumbnail acquiring unit acquires the thumbnail only when it is determined that the thumbnail is not stored in the internal storage unit. |
| Claim: |
5. A file exchange system comprising: a mobile device, another mobile device, and a server, the mobile device including: a file information acquiring unit that acquires file information representing a file managed by the server on a network from the server; a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired by the file information acquiring unit on a display unit; a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in an internal storage unit; a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to the other mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit; a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit; and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device. |
| Claim: |
6. The file exchange system according to claim 5, wherein the other mobile device comprises a file upload unit that uploads the received file to the server. |
| Claim: |
7. The file exchange system according to claim 6, wherein the server comprises a thumbnail provision unit that creates a thumbnail of the uploaded file and transmits the thumbnail to the other mobile device. |
| Current U.S. Class: |
715/739 |
| Current International Class: |
06; 06; 06 |
| Accession Number: |
edspap.20110307797 |
| Database: |
USPTO Patent Applications |
