US 12,229,089 B2
Electronic device, data processing method and storage medium
Hiroki Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/989,597.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-194314 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0169047 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/185 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/185 (2019.01) [G06F 16/13 (2019.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising at least one processor configured to perform the following:
receiving a selection operation from a user that selects one of a plurality of data types for a first data, the first data having a hierarchical structure, the plurality of data types being different from each other at least in terms of a way the first data is associated with a second data that is described at a different level in the hierarchical structure; and
adapting the first data in accordance with the data type selected by the selection operation, and causing the adapted first data to be saved in a memory,
wherein one of the plurality of data types is a second reference type in which the first data refers to the second data, and the first data of the second reference type includes reference information that refers to the second data, and
wherein when the second data that is referred to by the first data of the second reference type has been changed, the at least one processor duplicates the second data before being changed, and modifies the reference information of the first data of the second reference type such that the first data of the second reference type refers to the duplicated second data before being changed.