Appointed meeting system, management device and appointed meeting method

• US 20060195892A1
• Filed: 09/27/2005
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Inage, Yoshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/235,353
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195892A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

To provide a technology of acquiring, if unable to conduct an appointed meeting of a plurality of persons as scheduled, situations of the individual persons and easily notifying each member of a change of the appointed meeting corresponding to the situations. Member information of members making arrangements for an appointed meeting and appointed meeting conditions are received from an inquirer terminal, a member situation query message based on the member information is sent to the inquired device, member situation information is received from the inquired terminal, and appointed meeting information is obtained based on the situation information and the appointed meeting conditions and transmitted to the inquired terminal and the inquirer terminal.

Claims

1. A management device comprising:

a condition receiving module receiving member information about members making arrangements for an appointed meeting and appointed meeting conditions from an inquirer device;

a query module sending a member situation query message based on the member information to an inquired device;

a situation receiving module receiving member situation information from the inquired device;

an appointed meeting determining module obtaining the appointed meeting information on the basis of the situation information and the appointed meeting conditions; and

an appointed meeting communication module transmitting the appointed meeting information to the inquired device and the inquirer device.

2. A management device according to claim 1, wherein when the situation receiving module receives points of time till a plurality of members arrive as the situation information, the appointed meeting determining module determines, among the points of time till their arrivals, any one of the latest time, the latest time that does not exceed predetermined time, the time till an arrival of a predetermined member, the time when a predetermined number of members arrive and the time when a predetermined percentage of members arrive, as appointed meeting time.

3. A management device according to claim 1, wherein when the situation receiving module receives attendance and absence of the plurality of members as the situation information, the appointed meeting determining module determines to cancel or postpone the appointed meeting, with respect to the attendance and the absence of the members, if the situation information of the predetermined member is absence.

4. A management device according to claim 1, wherein when the situation receiving module receives the points of time till the plurality of members arrive and/or present locations as the member situation information, the appointed meeting determining module determines an appointed meeting place on the basis of the points of time till their arrivals.

5. An appointed meeting method by which a computer executes steps of:

receiving member information about members making arrangements for an appointed meeting and appointed meeting conditions from an inquirer device;

sending a member situation query message based on the member information to an inquired device;

receiving member situation information from the inquired device;

obtaining the appointed meeting information on the basis of the situation information and the appointed meeting conditions; and

transmitting the appointed meeting information to the inquired device and the inquirer device.

6. An appointed meeting method according to claim 5, wherein when receiving points of time till a plurality of members arrive as the situation information, among the points of time till their arrivals, any one of the latest time, the latest time that does not exceed predetermined time, the time till an arrival of a predetermined member, the time when a predetermined number of members arrive and the time when a predetermined percentage of members arrive, is determined as appointed meeting time.

7. An appointed meeting method according to claim 5, wherein when receiving attendance and absence of the plurality of members as the situation information, with respect to the attendance and the absence of the members, if the predetermined member is absent, the appointed meeting is determined to be canceled or postponed.

8. An appointed meeting method according to claim 5, wherein when receiving the points of time till the plurality of members arrive and/or their present locations as the member situation information, an appointed meeting place is determined based on the situation information.

9. An appointed meeting program for making a computer execute steps of:

receiving member information about members making arrangements for an appointed meeting and appointed meeting conditions from an inquirer device;

sending a member situation query message based on the member information to an inquired device;

receiving member situation information from the inquired device;

obtaining the appointed meeting information on the basis of the situation information and the appointed meeting conditions; and

transmitting the appointed meeting information to the inquired device and the inquirer device.

10. An appointed meeting program according to claim 9, wherein when receiving points of time as pieces of situation information till a plurality of members arrive, among the points of time till their arrivals, any one of the latest time, the latest time that does not exceed predetermined time, the time till an arrival of a predetermined member, the time when a predetermined number of members arrive and the time when a predetermined percentage of members arrive, is determined as appointed meeting time.

11. An appointed meeting program according to claim 9, wherein when receiving attendance and absence of the plurality of members as the situation information, with respect to the attendance and the absence of the members, if the predetermined member is absent, the appointed meeting is determined to be canceled or postponed.

12. An appointed meeting program according to claim 9, wherein when receiving the points of time till the plurality of members arrive and/or their present locations as the member situation information, an appointed meeting place is determined based on the situation information.

13. An appointed meeting system including an inquirer device, an inquired device and a management device that are connected via a network,

the management device comprising:

a condition receiving module receiving member information about members making arrangements for an appointed meeting and appointed meeting conditions from an inquirer device;

a query module sending a member situation query message based on the member information to an inquired device;

a situation receiving module receiving member situation information from the inquired device;

an appointed meeting determining module obtaining the appointed meeting information on the basis of the situation information and the appointed meeting conditions; and

an appointed meeting communication module transmitting the appointed meeting information to the inquired device and the inquirer device,

the inquirer device comprising;

a condition transmitting module transmitting the member information and the appointed meeting conditions to the management device,

the inquired device comprising;

a query receiving module receiving a member situation query message;

a situation transmitting module transmitting the member situation information to the management device; and

an appointed meeting information receiving module receiving the appointed meeting information.