PFU Assigned Patent

PFU Ltd., Ishikawa, Japan, (a Ricoh company) has been assigned a patent (11971852) developed by Genno, Reiko, and Shimazaki, Katsuhito, Ishikawa, Japan, for “file management device, file management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A file management device comprising a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: a common feature extracting unit that extracts a feature common to a plurality of data files to which a same tag is provided from the data files, a tagging rule storage DB that stores a feature extracted by the common feature extracting unit and the tag provided to the data files in association with each other as a tagging rule, and a tag providing unit that provides a tag to a newly input data file based on the tagging rule stored in the tagging rule storage DB.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-05-31 (17/612482).