Patent ID: 7885920
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for managing the property of research and development, comprising: a computer individually used by each experimenter and experiment approver; and a management computer for managing an experiment notebook database, an experiment data database, and a history management database, wherein the computer used by each experimenter comprises: first means for displaying an experiment notebook form in which predetermined description items are described and description fields are left in blank on a screen of a display unit and receiving description data with respect to the individual description items on the screen from an input means; second means for checking, when an operation indicating the completion of description data entry is performed, whether all the description data in the description items satisfying required description requirements has been entered and temporarily storing the data as experiment notebook data in a storage means when all the data has been entered; and third means for sending the experiment notebook data and the experiment data corresponding to the experiment notebook data obtained via measurement apparatus to the management computer via a network in accordance with a registration operation by the experimenter, wherein the management computer comprises: fourth means for receiving the experiment notebook data and the experiment data from the experimenter's computer, integrally editing the experiment data with the experiment notebook data, converting the data into experiment notebook data in a file format to which access is allowed for reference purposes only, providing the data with a time stamp, and then storing the data in the experiment notebook database; fifth means for providing the experiment data received together with the experiment notebook data with link information to the experiment notebook data and storing the experiment data in the experiment data database; and sixth means for recording history information such as type information indicating whether the experiment notebook data and experiment data stored in the experiment notebook database and the experiment data database is newly submitted, submitted after correction, or submitted after addition, and registrants, in the history management database, wherein the computer used by the approver further comprises: seventh means for receiving a request for the detailed display of any one of the experiment notebook data in the list of unapproved experiment notebook data displayed on the display screen, sending a request for the acquisition of the experiment notebook data to the management computer, and displaying the experiment notebook data received from the management computer on the display screen; and eighth means for receiving comment data with respect to the displayed experiment notebook data from the input means, receiving a decision based on an “Approve” button or a “Reject” button and sending the entered comment data and decision information to the management computer, and wherein the management computer further comprises: ninth means for searching the experiment notebook database for the experiment notebook data corresponding to the request for the acquisition of the experiment notebook data and sending back the data to the computer from which the request has been sent; and tenth means for associating the comment data and decision information received from the computer with the corresponding experiment notebook data, storing the data in the experiment notebook database, and updating the status of the experiment notebook data in the history management database in accordance with the decision information.