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Patent US6687678 - Use's schedule management system - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsThis schedule management system can flexibly cope with an exceptional change or deletion of a part of a schedule. In registering a routine schedule, a unique number (routine number) is added to a series of such schedules. The schedule so registered is so adapted to be able to change only the content...http://www.google.com/patents/US6687678?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6687678 - Use's schedule management systemAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS6687678 B1Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 09/390,270Publication dateFeb 3, 2004Filing dateSep 7, 1999Priority dateSep 10, 1998Fee statusLapsedPublication number09390270, 390270, US 6687678 B1, US 6687678B1, US-B1-6687678, US6687678 B1, US6687678B1InventorsFumio Yorimatsu, Tohru Furukawa, Ioshiharu OhkazeOriginal AssigneeInternational Business Machines CorporationExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (21), Non-Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (64), Classifications (11), Legal Events (5) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetUse's schedule management system
US 6687678 B1Abstract
This schedule management system can flexibly cope with an exceptional change or deletion of a part of a schedule. In registering a routine schedule, a unique number (routine number) is added to a series of such schedules. The schedule so registered is so adapted to be able to change only the content of the schedule without changing the added routine number in changing individual schedule. Therefore, an exceptional schedule the content of which has been changed can be flexibly managed by being deleted/changed in a bundle together with other routine schedule, for example. A routine basic condition such as every other day and every Monday and a routine exceptional condition such as shifting down week end and holiday to next day can be set in the routine pattern.
This invention relates to a schedule management system and, more particularly, to a system which allows a plurality of users to efficiently register and manage a routine, regular or periodical schedule occurring in a substantially constant condition.
As described in PUPA 5-61876, a schedule management system is provided for inputting a repetitive or periodical schedule such as “Meeting from 10:00 to 11:00 every day for 10 days from today” and “Morning meeting from 9:00 on every Monday”.
However, irregular (or exceptional) factors including a partial change/deletion such as “Meeting starts at 2:00 only today” and: “Morning meeting is canceled in this week” are often brought in a periodically-occurring schedule (hereinafter referred to as a routine schedule) of this kind. Also, it may be desired to delete a registered schedule in a bundle or change the content thereof as a result of a review of a project.
A conventional schedule management system was unable to cope with such irregurality because the schedule is generated in the manner similar to a schedule in which a routine schedule was normally or non-exceptionally registered according to a pattern in which a routine pattern was pre registered and could not remove an irregular schedule from an object to be managed as a routine schedule or manage after input (delete or change the routine schedule in a bundle). In addition, the conventional system was unable to cope with a partial change of a pattern such as “Morning meeting starts at 10:00 in this month only”.
In registering a routine schedule, a unique number (routine number) is added to a series of such schedules. The schedule so registered is so adapted to be able to change only the content of the schedule without changing the added routine number in changing individual schedule. Therefore, an exceptional schedule the content of which has been changed can be flexibly managed by being deleted/changed in a bundle together with other routine schedule, for example. A routine basic condition such as every other day and every Monday and a routine,exceptional condition such as shifting down week end and holiday to next day can be set in the routine pattern.
In the claims of this specification, a “condition of a day on which a schedule is set” is a concept including every day, a basic condition such as every day, every other day (or every n+1 days) every second Wednesday of a month (or every m-th particular week day of a month), and an exceptional condition such as “a holiday is not registered” and “a registration on a holiday is shifted up to the previous day”.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a hardware configuration implementing the schedule management apparatus of this invention. The schedule management apparatus 100 comprises a central processing unit (CPU) 1 and a memory 4. The CPU 1 and the memory 4 are connected to a hard disk devices 13, 31 as an auxiliary storage via a bus 2. A floppy disk device 20 (or recording medium drives 26, 28, 29, 30 such as an MO 28 and CD-ROM 26, 29) is connected to the bus 2 through a floppy disk controller 19 (or controllers such as an IDE controller 25, a SCSI controller 27).
The system configuration of this invention is now described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 2. In the preferred embodiment of this invention, the schedule management system comprises an input part 101, an event detecting part 103, a routine schedule number generating part 113, a control part 105, a table input/output part 106, a display control part 107, local data storage part 108, a display part 109, a schedule display window generating part 111, a routine schedule data generating part 112, user schedule management tables 121, 131, holiday management tables 123, 133, and user management master tables 125, 135.
C-1. Schedule Input
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the panel for inputting a routine condition in the preferred embodiment of this invention. As shown in FIG. 15, 2 kinds of conditions, a basic condition such as every day, every other day (or every n+1 days), every second Wednesday of a month (or every m-th particular week day of a month), and an exceptional condition such as “a holiday is not registered” and “a registration on a holiday is shifted up to the previous day” can be set up as a routine condition. It is also possible to set up a schedule on certain week days of the 1st to the 6th weeks.
D=SDD+2(n−1)(D<FDD)
The extracted routine schedule data are deleted (block 511). Information of holidays related to the output of the routine schedule is then obtained from the holiday management table 230 based on the information of the routine period 217 and the routine condition 219 in the manner similar to the procedure of “C-1. Schedule Input” and the date for which the routine schedule is outputted is calculated (block 513).
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