Patent ID: 8717178
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an entrance and exit detection module that detects a user's entrance and exit to and from a room; an organization information obtaining module that, in a case where a user's entrance to a room is detected by the entrance and exit detection module, when the entering user is a user who enters the room first, obtains user information representative of a user belonging to an organization using the room by using organization user information storing, in a state of being associated with each other, organization information representative of the organization and the user information representative of the user belonging to the organization; a user number calculation module that predicts the number of users of the organization using the room, based on information on a past action of the user represented by the user information obtained by the organization information obtaining module; a seat determination module that associates with each other the organization information representative of the organization and seat information representative of seats in the room used by the organization based on the number of users calculated by the user number calculation module, and that determines, from among the associated seats, a seat for the user whose entrance is detected by the entrance and exit detection module; a change module that, when a number of entering users belonging to the organization exceeds a number of users of the organization calculated by the user number calculation module, determines whether or not a vacant seat is present among seats adjacent to the seats represented by the seat information associated with the organization information obtained by the organization information obtaining module, and when the vacant seat is present, changes the seat information associated with the organization information; and a presentation module that presents the seat determined by the seat determination module, to the user whose entrance is detected by the entrance and exit detection module.