Schedule management system and schedule management apparatus for mobile users

• US 20040249693A1
• Filed: 04/20/2004
• Published: 12/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Sako, Kazuya
• Application Number:
  US10/829,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20040249693A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

A schedule table is stored in a RAM of a schedule management apparatus and in a schedule storage section of a management center. The schedule management apparatus transmits a present position detected by a GPS to the management center continuously. The management center calculates a required time period to move from the present position of the schedule management apparatus to a place included in the schedule table and, when a time calculated from an expected start time of the schedule is reached, transmits an alarm to the schedule management apparatus. This alarm is displayed on a display section of the schedule management apparatus. By starting to move to the scheduled place, a user can arrive at the place before the expected start time even when the user starts from a place quite far from the scheduled place.

Claims

1. A schedule management system, comprising:

a schedule management apparatus that transmits a schedule to be managed to a management center, transmits its own present position to the management center continuously, and displays an alarm when it receives the alarm from said management center; and

the management center that stores the schedule received from said schedule management apparatus, calculates a required time period to move from said present position to a place included in said schedule when it receives said present position from said schedule management apparatus, calculates a time to start an alarm based on an expected start time included in said schedule, a present time and said required time period, and transmits an alarm to said schedule management apparatus through a transmitting/receiving section when the present time reaches said calculated alarm start time.

2. A management center, comprising:

a unit that performs transmission/reception to/from a schedule management apparatus;

a memory that stores a schedule received from said schedule management apparatus through said transmitting/receiving unit;

a unit that detects a present time;

a unit that calculates, from a place included in said schedule and a present position received from said schedule management apparatus, a required time period to move from said present position to said place;

a unit that calculates a time to start an alarm based on an expected start time included in said schedule, said detected present time and said calculated required time period; and

a unit that transmits an alarm to said schedule management apparatus through said transmitting/receiving unit when said detected present time reaches said calculated alarm start time.

3. A schedule management apparatus, comprising:

a unit that performs transmission/reception to/from a management center;

a unit that transmits a schedule to said management center through said transmitting/receiving unit;

a unit that detects a present position;

a unit that transmits said detected present position to said management center through said transmitting/receiving unit; and

a unit that displays an alarm received from said management center through said transmitting/receiving unit.

4. A schedule management apparatus, comprising:

a memory that stores a schedule;

a unit that detects a present position;

a unit that detects a present time;

a unit that calculates, from a place included in said schedule and said detected present position, a required time period to move from said present position to said place;

a unit that calculates a time to start an alarm based on an expected start time included in said schedule, said detected present time and said calculated required time period; and

a unit that displays an alarm when said detected present time reaches said calculated time to start an alarm.

5. A schedule management system, comprising:

a management center that transmits a schedule that is created and input by an operator based on a conversation using a telephone unit between the operator of the management center and a user of said schedule management apparatus; and

the schedule management apparatus that transmits the schedule to said management center through the conversation using the telephone unit, storing the schedule received through said telephone unit in a memory, and displaying the schedule.

6. A management center, comprising:

a unit that telephones with a schedule management apparatus;

a unit that inputs a schedule created from a conversation using said telephone unit;

a memory that stores the schedule input by said inputting unit; and

a unit that transmits said schedule to said schedule management apparatus through said telephoning unit.

7. A schedule management apparatus, comprising:

a unit that telephones with an operator of a management center and receiving data;

a memory that stores a schedule received from the management center through said telephoning unit; and

a unit that displays said received schedule.