Document Registration Apparatus with Condition Checking and Notification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing document management systems face challenges in reliably registering documents due to insufficient storage capacity, module operation issues, or unexpected data formats, often resulting in incomplete registration attempts and cluttered storage, which can lead to missed opportunities for document registration.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus with a registration unit that checks conditions for document registration, including storage capacity and data integrity, and a notification unit that provides identification information for non-registered documents to multiple destinations, allowing re-requested registration when conditions are met, ensuring documents are properly stored and reducing storage clutter.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If document registration is attempted without condition checking, then registration speed is improved, but registration reliability deteriorates due to storage capacity constraints and data integrity issues

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregistration speedVSAvoidregistration reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The registration unit performs preliminary condition checking (storage capacity verification and data format validation) before executing document registration. This preliminary action prevents registration failures and storage clutter while maintaining efficient processing by filtering out ineligible documents early in the workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If notification is sent to multiple destinations for failed registration, then registration reliability is improved through re-request opportunities, but information loss increases due to multiple notification cycles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregistration reliabilityVSAvoidinformation loss
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The notification unit sends feedback information (identification information of failed documents) to multiple destinations, enabling recipients to re-request registration. This feedback mechanism improves registration reliability by allowing corrective actions while managing information loss through structured notification protocols that track and reference original documents.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Manufacturing precision

If condition checking is performed for each document, then registration precision is improved by preventing incorrect documents from being registered, but device complexity increases due to multiple check conditions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregistration precisionVSAvoidcondition check complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The condition checking process is segmented into distinct verification steps: storage capacity checking and data format validation. This segmentation allows each condition to be evaluated independently, improving registration precision by systematically addressing each requirement while managing complexity through modular check functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Productivity

If documents are registered without storage capacity checks, then productivity is improved, but storage space is wasted due to registration of incorrect or duplicate documents

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregistration productivityVSAvoidstorage space utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The registration unit performs preliminary storage capacity verification before registering documents. This preliminary check prevents registration failures and storage clutter by ensuring sufficient space is available, thereby optimizing storage space utilization while maintaining high registration productivity through efficient condition validation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9984074B2Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
Publication Date: 2018.05.29 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit and a notification unit. The registration unit registers a document onto a designated registration destination if a condition for registration is satisfied when the registration of the document onto the registration destination is requested. The notification unit provides a notification of identification information for identifying the document to multiple destinations if the registration of the document is not performed. When the registration of the document identified based on the identification information notified by the notification unit is requested, the registration unit registers the document onto the registration destination if the condition for the registration is satisfied.