Abstract: A document management system includes an image input unit for reading a paper document, an image output unit for printing document image information, and a task management system for managing a task. The task managed by the task management system is identified for a document image input operation, and an input condition that is set in advance for the identified task is acquired. The image input unit reads the paper document in accordance with the acquired input condition. Document image information that is inputted by the image input unit is registered in association with the task managed by the task management system. For a document image output operation, an output condition that is set in advance for the identified task is acquired. The image output unit prints the document image information in accordance with the acquired output condition.

Abstract: An engine provided with a fuel injector for directly injecting fuel into a cylinder, a spark plug positioning a spark gap in a flight path of fuel injected from the fuel injector, and a cavity formed in a piston top face, wherein at the time of stratified combustion, the fuel injector injects substantially all of the fuel in a direction merging with a tumble flow, swirling in a longitudinal direction along the cavity at the compression stroke, along the swirl direction of the tumble flow and uses the spark plug to ignite the fuel while the fuel at the end period of injection is passing through the spark gap.

Abstract: A workflow management system capable of directly capturing image information transmitted by a facsimile machine is disclosed. The workflow management system includes an object identifying unit identifying an object to be associated with image information received by a facsimile machine, the object being defined in the workflow management system; and a related document registering unit associating the image information with the identified object, and registering the image information associated with the identified object.

Abstract: A disclosed workflow management system dynamically formulates a workflow model at the time of executing a workflow. The workflow management system includes a unit configured to access the contents of an e-mail transmitted or received by a user of the workflow management system, and a unit configured to operate a task in the workflow management system based on the accessed contents of the e-mail.

Abstract: A disclosed workflow management system is capable of dynamically constructing a model while executing a workflow. The workflow management system includes a task page management unit that manages a task page corresponding to a task or a task model of a workflow independently from a workflow engine; an attachment folder management unit that manages an attachment folder of the task page independently from the workflow engine; a registering unit that generates index information of an attached document of the task of the workflow and the task page and registers the index information into a search database; and a presenting unit that, when displaying the task page, presents related information through a search in the attachment folder and in the search database.

Abstract: A workflow management system wherein a workflow model is dynamically constituted when a workflow is executed, its method, and its computer-executable program are disclosed. The workflow management system includes a receiving unit for receiving access from an external terminal based on a protocol that is capable accessing a file system; a providing unit for providing a folder list to the external terminal, wherein the folder list is acquired by converting a task layer of the workflow managed by the workflow management system into a folder layer of the file system; and an appending unit for appending a document as relevant information to a task of the workflow corresponding to a predetermined folder layer when the document is uploaded by the external terminal.

Abstract: A workflow management system is disclosed that is suitable to manage a workflow including plural hierarchically-classified tasks and especially for cooperative work spread over different organizations. The workflow management system includes a task receiving unit to receive designation of a task to be delegated, a delegatee receiving unit to receive designation of a delegatee, an acceptance receiving unit to receive acceptance of a delegation from the delegatee, a first processor that allows a delegator to hide a delegated task and a subordinate task, and allows the delegator to confirm status of the designated task, and a second processor that allows the delegator to refer to other tasks relevant to the delegated tasks.

Abstract: A disclosed workflow management system includes a first database for holding a task model created by generalizing a past task instance of a workflow; a second database for holding a task instance that is a specific past task instance of a workflow; a task model reusing unit configured to reuse the task model by searching the first database according to user-specified input information and copying information from the task model found; and a task instance reusing unit configured to reuse the task instance by searching the second database according to user-specified input information and copying information from the task instance found.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, computer program, and related computer medium are provided to perform an operation of providing a virtual office to users logged on a network. The network includes a server terminal and client terminals. The server terminal performs operations of allowing the client terminals to log on the network based on login information, storing data received from the client terminals, creating the virtual office using the data, and providing the virtual office to the client terminals in a format readable to the client terminals. Further, the server terminal performs operations of starting synchronized communication among the users according to various rules previously set by the users, and displaying information that the communication has started. Through these operations, the users can communicate with one another in a real time environment, as if they were in the physically same location.

Abstract: In a document management system including a plurality of document storing devices storing document information, respectively, a recording device records progress status information of an operation of each document storing device. A retrieving device checks, when the document management system is activated, the recorded progress status information of an operation of each document storing device to retrieve a document storing device that cannot be activated. A progress status information acquiring device acquires from the recording device progress status information of an operation of the retrieved document storing device. A fault recovery process content acquiring device acquires a content of a fault recovery process relative to the retrieved document storing device based upon the acquired progress status information of an operation of the retrieved document storing device.

Abstract: A distributed type of database system according to the present invention comprises a communication line for transmitting, when a transaction is generated in any of a plurality of DB sites, a request message for requesting permission of updating from the DB site to a broadcasting station site. After receiving the message, it is determined in the broadcasting station site whether a permission for updating should be given or not. The result of the determination is transmitted to all the DB sites in the broadcasting mode through a satellite.

Abstract: An injection mold device comprises a first matrix attached to a movable platen and a second matrix attached to a fixed platen. A multiplicity of first cavity units are attached to the first matrix. A multiplicity of second cavity units are provided for selective removable attachment to the first matrix during a mold-clamping state and to the second matrix during a mold-opening state. A self-holding device is associated with the first matrix for maintaining a clamping force between the first cavity units and the second cavity units during the mold-clamping state. A mold-opening device is associated with the second matrix for removably attaching the second cavity units to the first matrix in the mold-clamping state and for removing the second cavity units from the first matrix in the mold-opening state.

Abstract: An injection molding machine of an automatic core change type includes a mold clamping section including stationary and movable platens fitted with first and second matrixes of a mold, respectively, a mold changing robot and a mold stocker severally attached to the mold clamping section and separately controlled by way of a control section, and a temperature controller for controlling the respective temperatures of the first and second matrixes and the mold stocker. As an arm and a chuck move and rotate, respectively, a first cavity unit, attached to the first matrix, is taken out from the first matrix, transported toward the mold stocker, and stored in its corresponding storage hole of the mold stocker. Then, another first cavity unit is taken out from the mold stocker, transported toward the mold clamping section, and attached to the first matrix, whereupon the replacement of the first cavity unit is completed. A second cavity unit is replaced in like manner, whereupon the mold replacement is completed.

Abstract: An ultrafiltration apparatus comprising a module in which a number of hollow fibers having semipermeable walls, disposed in approximately parallel and collected orderly to form a bundle and fixed with a cast-molding material at at least one end portion thereof, are used as semipermeable membrane, a back washing means and a control means for controlling said module and said back washing means, is presented. Said apparatus can be used for a long time without accompanying reduction of filtration capacity.