Marubeni IT Solutions Assigned Patent

Marubeni IT Solutions Inc., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11487711) developed by Murakami, Akihiko, Kuzume, Yoshihiko, and Kumagai, Takaaki, Tokyo, Japan, for “file management apparatus, file management method, and file management program.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A file management apparatus displays an icon of a file where a shortcut on a cloud storage refers to the file within the cloud storage. A file management apparatus which is connected to a cloud storage on a cloud network via a network and which displays content of a folder within the cloud storage, displays an icon for directly opening a second file or a second folder in a first display region of the file management apparatus for showing content of a first folder in a case where a shortcut file stored in the first folder within the cloud storage is a shortcut file which refers to the second file or the second folder existing outside the first folder, and in which a link to the second file or the second folder is set as a link to a website.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-08-128 (16/991940).