JP3000971B2 - Schedule adjustment system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a schedule management system, and more particularly, to a schedule adjustment in group member schedule management.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the schedule adjustment of group members has been realized by the following two methods.

A first method is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. Hei 3-130870 (title of "Schedule Display Device"), in which a certain user inputs a schedule of a member of a group to another user. The schedule of a group member was entered on behalf of the group.

[0004] A second method is to determine whether a schedule can be canceled, shifted, or adjusted, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-358263 (title of "electronic schedule management system"). The schedule priority is determined in 16 stages from the four viewpoints of division.

[0005]

In the above-mentioned first method, since each member's schedule must be entered from the beginning in order to enter the member's schedule,
It was not possible to divert and input the data of the related person, which was complicated. Therefore, there is a need for a means by which an individual can easily input a schedule of a member related to the user.

In the second method described above, when adjusting the schedule, the schedule change target person is determined based on the priority assigned to the work content of each member. However, in the second method, since the degree of duplication of the work content itself is not taken into consideration, there is a case where schedule adjustment is inconvenient depending on a value calculated based on the priority. For example, consider a case of work contents in which members A and B of a group have a meeting with two people. In this case, conventionally, the fact that members A and B can change the schedule at the same time cannot be reflected in the evaluation value for schedule adjustment. Therefore, there is a need for a means for considering the degree of duplication of the work content itself among members between groups.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an environment for easily inputting a schedule of a plurality of members by allowing an individual to input a schedule of a member associated with the user. is there.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a new evaluation value called a degree of duplication for the degree of duplication of the work content itself in addition to the priority of the work content when the work overlaps in the same time zone. Another object of the present invention is to provide a means for calculating an evaluation value for schedule adjustment from the degree and the degree of overlap, so that the group schedule is adjusted.

Still another object of the present invention is to make it possible to treat a place as an element necessary for adjusting a schedule in the same manner as a member attribute.

[0010] The schedule management system of the present invention comprises a personal schedule input means for inputting a personal schedule, a schedule management means for receiving a personal schedule from the personal schedule input means and managing the personal schedule, and the schedule management means. Schedule storage means for storing personal schedules received from the group, group schedule input means for inputting setting information necessary for setting a new group schedule, receiving the setting information from the group schedule input means, A schedule adjusting unit for causing the managing unit to extract schedule information indicating a schedule of a corresponding member from the schedule storing unit and adjusting a group schedule; and the schedule adjusting unit. Group schedule output means for outputting information indicating a group schedule adjusted by the means, wherein the schedule adjustment means obtains information necessary for adjusting the schedule; and schedule acquisition means for each individual schedule. Personal schedule priority calculating means for calculating priority, group schedule priority calculating means for detecting a schedule by the same member and calculating the priority of the group schedule, personal schedule priority calculating means, and the group It is characterized by having schedule evaluation means for determining a schedule from schedule priority calculation means.

Further, in the above schedule management system, there is provided location information storage means for storing capacity information indicating the capacity of the place, and the schedule adjusting means is based on the capacity information of the place stored in the location information storage means. And a location attribute priority calculating means for determining a location attribute and calculating a priority.

[0012]

Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

A schedule management system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The illustrated schedule management system includes a schedule input unit 1, a schedule management unit 2, a schedule storage unit 3, a group schedule input / output unit 4,
And a schedule adjusting unit 5.

First, in order to input a schedule of each individual, the user inputs a schedule attribute from the individual schedule input unit 1. In this example, the schedule attributes include “name”, “subject”, “schedule”, “time”, “location”, “priority”, and “related members”.

The schedule management unit 2 receives a schedule attribute from the personal schedule input unit 1, assigns a schedule ID to the schedule attribute, and stores the schedule attribute in the schedule storage unit 3.

The upper part of FIG. 2 shows the form of storage in the schedule storage unit 3. The schedule storage unit 3 is provided with a group schedule table 30. The group schedule table 30 includes first to eighth items 31 to
38 are provided. A first item 31 is a column of “ID” indicating a schedule ID, a second item 32 is a column of “name”, a third item 33 is a column of “subject”, and a fourth item 34
Is the "Schedule" column, the fifth item 35 is the "Time" column,
The item 36 shows a column of "place", the seventh item 37 shows a column of "priority", and the eighth item 38 shows a column of "related members".

In the illustrated example, the first item “I
“001” is stored in the first line of the column 31 of “D”. “Yoshifu” is stored in the first line of the “name” column 32 as the second item. “Group meeting” is stored in the first line of the “item name” column 33 as the third item. The first line of the fourth item “schedule” column 34 is “94/4/15” indicating April 15, 1994.
Is stored. Column 35 of “time” which is the fifth item
In the first line, “13: 00-15: 00” is stored. "3502 meeting room" is stored in the first line of the "location" column 36, which is the sixth item. “8” is stored in the first line of the “Priority” column 37 which is the seventh item. The first line of the column 38 of the "related members", which is the eighth item, stores the names of "Tarumizu" and "Tabuchi".

At the time of storage in the schedule storage unit 3, the related members are referred to by referring to the names of the related members in the schedule attribute (the eighth item 38 in the group schedule table 30 in the "related members" column). The schedule of the member is stored in the schedule storage unit 3. The form of the storage is shown in the lower part of FIG.

The way of storing (rules) is as follows. The schedule ID is stored for each “related member”. The member name is stored in the “name” column 32. The attributes stored in the schedule attributes input by the personal schedule input unit 1 except for “name” and “related members” are stored. Among the schedule attributes input by the personal schedule input unit 1, names other than the previously stored names from the "name" and the "related members" are stored in the "related members" column.

In the case of this example, the column 38 of "related members"
Stores the names of "Tarumizu" and "Tabuchi",
According to the above rules, “002” and “003” are stored in the second and third lines of the “ID” column 31, respectively, and the second line of the “name” column 32 is stored in accordance with the above rules. In the third row, the names of "Tarumizu" and "Tabuchi" are stored. In addition, in accordance with the above rules, the second and third lines of the "subject" column 33, the second and third lines of the "schedule" column 34, and the second and third lines of the "time" column 35 2nd and 3rd lines, 2nd and 3rd lines in the column 36 of "Place"
Line, and the second and third lines of the column 37 of the “priority”.
Each row stores the same information as that stored in the first row of the corresponding column. Finally, in accordance with the above rule, the second line of the column 38 of “related members” is “Yoshifu”
And the name of "Tabuchi" are stored, and the names of "Yoshifu" and "Tarumizu" are stored in the third line of the column 38 of "Related Members".

Next, the user inputs the "schedule", "required time", and "participating member names" from the group schedule input / output unit 4 in order to establish a common schedule in the group. When the group schedule input / output unit 4 sends the “schedule”, “required time”, and “participating member name” to the schedule adjusting unit 5, the schedule adjusting unit 5 requests the schedule managing unit 2 for the schedule of the corresponding member.

The schedule management section 2 retrieves schedule information indicating the schedule of the corresponding member from the schedule storage section 3 and sends it to the schedule adjustment section 5. This schedule information is in a form previously stored in the schedule storage unit 3. When the schedule adjusting unit 5 sends the schedule information to the group schedule input / output unit 4, the group schedule input / output unit 4 outputs the schedule information to the user.

Next, referring to FIG. 3, claim 1 of the present invention will be described.
Will be described. The illustrated schedule management system specifically shows the schedule adjustment unit 5 shown in FIG. The schedule adjustment unit 5 includes a schedule acquisition unit 51, an individual schedule priority calculation unit 52, a group schedule priority calculation unit 53, and a schedule evaluation unit 54.

Next, the operation of the schedule management system shown in FIG. 3 will be described. First, in order to incorporate a group schedule, the user inputs the “schedule”, “required time”, and “participating member name” from the group schedule input / output unit 4. The “schedule” can be input with a certain width, for example, “from two days to seven days from today”.

When the group schedule input / output unit 4 sends the "schedule", "required time" and "participating member name" to the schedule acquisition unit 51 of the schedule adjustment unit 5, the schedule acquisition unit 51 stores the schedule of the corresponding member. For confirmation, the “schedule”, “required time”, and “member name” are sent to the schedule management unit 2.

The schedule management unit 2 extracts the schedule information indicating the specified schedule of the specified member from the schedule storage unit 3 and sends it to the schedule acquisition unit 51. The description content of this schedule information is, for example,
“Date and time”, “work content”, “work content priority”, and the like. The “priority” is, for example, from “0” to “10”, and the higher the number, the higher the priority. “0”
“Priority” indicates that there is no work.

Upon receiving the schedule information of the designated member from the schedule management unit 2, the schedule acquisition unit 51 calculates the individual schedule priority based on the schedule information and the "required time" previously acquired from the group schedule input / output unit 4. To the unit 52.

Upon receiving the schedule information from the schedule obtaining unit 51, the personal schedule priority calculating unit 52 calculates the personal schedule priority by the following method.
Investigate the priority of each member at each time. The time unit is, for example, every 10 minutes. The priorities of all members examined above are totaled for each hour. When the continuous time period in which the above total value is “0” exceeds the required time for the work, the schedule of all the members can be secured, so that the evaluation value calculation is completed and the schedule can be registered in the schedule evaluation unit 54. Is sent.

If the required time for the work is not exceeded, the individual schedule priority calculating section 52 sends the above schedule information to the group schedule priority calculating section 53.

When receiving the above schedule information from the individual schedule priority calculating section 52, the group schedule priority calculating section 53 calculates the group schedule priority by the following method. This will be described with reference to FIG.

From the description contents of the schedule, a time zone portion of the same work content is extracted between the members, and the duplication degree is given to the portion. The degree of duplication is, for example, “1” when they do not overlap, and “2” when the work contents of two persons overlap. In FIG. 4, “Yoshifu” and “Tabuchi” have the same work content, so the duplication degree is “2”. However, since “Miyashita”, whose work time partially overlaps, is another work, the duplication degree with “Miyashita” is different. Is “1”.

An evaluation value for each time zone is calculated from the value of the priority and the value of the degree of duplication. The evaluation value is calculated, for example, by multiplying the product of the priority and the reciprocal of the degree of overlap for each time period. The evaluation value calculated for each time is sent to the schedule evaluation unit 54.

The schedule evaluation unit 54 receives the “evaluation value” or “schedule” from the group schedule priority calculation unit 53.
When the “time period” is received, the “evaluation value” or “schedule” / “time period” is sent to the group schedule input / output unit 4.

The group schedule input / output unit 4 displays the received "evaluation value" or "schedule" / "time zone" to notify the user.

Next, referring to FIG. 5, claim 2 of the present invention will be described.
Will be described. The illustrated schedule management system has the same configuration as that shown in FIG. 3 except that the schedule adjustment unit 5 is changed to a schedule adjustment unit 6a and has a location information storage unit 6. I have. Schedule adjuster 6
a has a location priority calculation unit 55 except that
It has a configuration similar to that of the schedule adjustment unit 5 shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 shows a form of storage in the schedule storage unit 3 in this embodiment. The schedule storage unit 3 is provided with a group schedule table 30a. The group schedule table 30a has the same first to eighth items 31 to 38 as those of the group schedule table 30 shown in FIG. 2, and also has a ninth item 39. The ninth item 39 indicates a column of “location movement information” indicating location movable information.

FIG. 7 shows a form of storage in the location information storage unit 6. The location information storage unit 6 is provided with a location information table 60. In this location information table 60,
An item 61 of “ID”, an item 62 of “place name”, and an item 63 of “capacity” are provided.

Next, the operation of the schedule management system according to the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. As in the above-described second embodiment, the schedule, start time, required time, and members of the group schedule are determined.
The group schedule input / output unit 4 again sends the "schedule", "start time", and "required time" (hereinafter, "time") of the schedule to the schedule acquisition unit 51 of the schedule adjustment unit 5a.
These are called "date information").

When the schedule acquisition unit 51 sends the “date and time information” to the schedule management unit 2, the schedule management unit 2
Receives the “member name”, the “place name” and the “place movable information” for which the place is scheduled to be used at the same date and time as the “date and time information” from the schedule storage unit 3 (see FIG. 6). It receives the “place name” and its “capacity” from the place information storage unit 6 (see FIG. 7), and sends the information (called “place information”) to the schedule acquisition unit 51 through the schedule management unit 2. Here, the movable information is information indicating whether or not it is possible to move to a place scheduled in advance to perform a scheduled work. For example, “1” indicates that movement is permitted, and “1” indicates that movement is not possible. It has a value of “0”.

When receiving the “location information”, the schedule acquisition unit 51 sends the “location information” to the location priority calculation unit 55.

The place priority calculating section 55 compares the number of members and the number of members at the place in the "place information" with the number of members newly taking a schedule. The comparison method is as follows. Look for a place with more capacity than the newly scheduled members. Check if the location is being used elsewhere. If not used, the place name is sent to the schedule evaluation unit 54. If it is used, the number of people and the movable information are confirmed. If the number of people is movable, a place of the number of persons or more is searched for. If there is a destination location, move the member's location,
The place previously scheduled for use by the member is a place for newly scheduling.

As a result, if there is no corresponding place, the place priority calculating section 55 uses the information indicating that the place cannot be used, and if there is a corresponding place, the name of the place is used.
Send to The schedule evaluation unit 54 calculates the evaluation value or schedule /
When the time zone is received, the group schedule input / output unit 4
Send the place name or place unusable information to. The group schedule input / output unit 4 displays the place name or the place unusable information to notify the user.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0045]

As described above, the schedule management system according to the present invention has the following effects.
A schedule of another member can be registered as a schedule of a related (related) member when a personal schedule is input. If the schedule overlaps with another member, the priority can be dynamically changed by providing a new priority measure for the overlap, so that the time zone in which a new schedule can be set increases. The number of other members is less than the capacity (for example, 3 people for 5 people)
If there is a place with more than the number of people or less (for example, four people), you can have another member move to that place and make a new reservation for the place before the move Becomes

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schedule management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schedule storage method in a schedule storage unit in the schedule management system shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schedule management system according to claim 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a schedule adjustment of a schedule adjustment unit in the schedule management system illustrated in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a schedule management system according to claim 2 of the present invention.

6 is a diagram showing a method of storing a schedule in a schedule storage unit in the schedule management system shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a method of storing location information in a location information storage unit in the schedule management system shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Personal schedule input part 2 Schedule management part 3 Schedule storage part 4 Group schedule input / output part 5, 5a Schedule adjustment part 6 Location information storage part 51 Schedule acquisition part 52 Personal schedule priority calculation part 53 Group schedule priority calculation part 54 Schedule Evaluation unit 55 Location priority calculation unit

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A and personal schedule input means for inputting a personal schedule, a schedule management means for managing a schedule Rican receive a personal schedule from the personal schedule input means, personal schedule received from the schedule management means a schedule storage means for storing a group schedule input means for inputting setting information including the work of the group for scheduling of a group, receive Ri before Symbol scheduling the setting information from the group schedule input means and scheduling means for performing scheduling of the appropriate groups were removed schedule information indicating a schedule of the member from the schedule storage unit to the management unit, grayed adjusted by the scheduling means And a group schedule output means for outputting information indicating the loop schedule, calculates the schedule acquisition means for acquiring information required for adjusting the schedule adjustment means gas schedule, the priority for each individual schedule Personal schedule priority calculation means and multiple members overlap at the same time
Schedule to be detected and the work contents at that time are duplicated
And group scheduling priority calculation means according to one of the multiplicity to calculate the priority of the group scheduling, and scheduling evaluation means for determining the personal schedule priority calculating means and the group scheduling priority calculating hand stage or al Schedule schedule management system characterized by comprising a. 2. A location information storage means for storing capacity information indicating capacity of a place, wherein the schedule adjustment means comprises :
The location information storing means on the basis of the capacity information of the storage location, schedule management system 請 Motomeko 1, further comprising a location attribute priority calculation means for calculating a priority to determine the attributes of the location.