Patent ID: 8635097
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A schedule warning system comprising: a schedule information retaining unit that stores schedule information for a task plan, the task plan comprising at least one task item and the schedule information comprising actual performance information for the at least one task item, a schedule managing unit that manages the schedule information that is stored in the schedule information retaining unit, a relating person data managing unit that manages relating person data that relates to the schedule information, a defining unit that defines, for each task item, a delay monitoring condition that includes one or more criterion used to determine whether a delay occurs for the task item, and defines, for each task item, a warning recipient calculation condition that includes a range of warning recipients to be warned if a delay occurs, a delay monitoring unit that periodically monitors the schedule information that is stored in the schedule information retaining unit and repeatedly detects whether a schedule delay occurs in the task plan, based on the one or more criterion for the at least one task item of the task plan and the actual performance information for the at least one task item of the task plan, a warning recipient calculating unit that, when a delay occurs, identifies a relating person who corresponds to the task item from the relating person data based on the warning recipient calculation condition and calculates at least one warning recipient, and a warning execution unit that transmits a warning to the at least one warning recipient, wherein transmitting the warning message comprises first sending a warning confirmation request to the relating person to confirm that the warning message should be sent, and only sending the warning message to the at least one warning recipient if a warning confirmation response is received in response to the warning confirmation request.