Patent ID: 7532946
Filing Date: 2009-05-12
Classification: G05B,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A substance management system that tabulates releasing and transferring amount of a substance included in a material handled by a business entity for each destination of the releasing and transferring of said substance, comprising an input portion that inputs information; a storage portion that stores information; and a computing portion that is connected with said input portion and said storage portion and processes information entered by the system operator through said input portion and information stored in said storage portion, wherein said storage portion retains a material composition data that defines the content rate of the substance included in said material, and a releasing and transferring coefficient data that defines the releasing and transferring coefficient for each destination of the releasing and transferring of said substance; wherein said computing portion: generates a plurality of material handling amount records that are sets of relational information linking together the process in which said material is handled, said material, and the handling amount of said material based on a material control record entered through said input portion relating to charging or purchasing said material; stores said plurality of material handling amount records in said storage portion; identifies the content rate of the substance included in said material recorded in said plurality of material handling amount records retrieving said material composition data retained in said storage portion for said material recorded in said plurality of material handling amount record; calculates the handling amount of the substance included in said material based on said identified content rate of said substance and the handling amount of said material recorded in said plurality of material handling amount records; generates a plurality of substance handling amount records that are sets of relational information linking together the process in which said material is handled, the substance that said material includes, and the calculated handling amount of said substance; generates a first linkage information that defines the relationship between said material handling amount record and said substance handling amount record; stores said plurality of substance handling amount records and said first linkage information in said storage portion; identifies the releasing and transferring coefficient for each destination of the releasing and transferring of the substance included in said substance recorded in said plurality of substance handling amount records by retrieving said releasing and transferring coefficient data retained in said storage portion for said substance recorded in said plurality of substance handling amount records; calculates the releasing and transferring amount of said substance for each destination of the releasing and transferring of said substance based on said identified releasing and transferring coefficient for each destination of the releasing and transferring of said substance and the handling amount of said substance recorded in said plurality of substance handling amount records; generates a plurality of releasing and transferring amount record that are sets of relational information linking together the process in which said material is handled, the substance that said material includes, and the calculated releasing and transferring amount of said substance for each destination of the releasing and transferring of said substance; generates a second linkage information that defines the relationship between said substance handling amount record and said releasing and transferring amount record; stores said plurality of releasing and transferring amount records and said second linkage information in said storage portion; generates a plurality of tabulation result records that are tabulated information of said plurality of releasing and transferring amount records according to the tabulation instruction entered through said input portion; generates a third linkage information that defines the relationship between said releasing and transferring amount record and said tabulation result record; stores said plurality of tabulation result records and said third linkage information in said storage portion; and thereby, identifies a plurality of records by retrieving from said storage portion when such a record as is included in one of records: said plurality of substance handling amount records, said plurality of releasing and transferring amount records, and said plurality of tabulation result records, is chosen, wherein said identified plurality of records are the base of generating said chosen record and said retrieving uses one of said first, second, and third linkage information that relates to said chosen record.