Client device reservation system and method

• US 20060230433A1
• Filed: 03/29/2005
• Published: 10/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Invented Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Wen-Chang
• Application Number:
  US11/094,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20060230433A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

A system and a method of client device reservation are connected to at least one terminal device by a network unit, for allowing a user to login the system, reserve a client device and provide a feedback message. The client device reservation system includes a web server installed with a client device reservation interface, for allowing the user to inquire client devices and usage statuses thereof and to make a reservation of a client device; a client device database for allowing a system administrator to record software/hardware information and the usage statuses of the client devices; and at least one terminal device installed with a browser, for allowing the user to execute the client device reservation interface of the web server via the terminal device, so as to make the reservation of the client device and report feedback problems/conditions incurred during using the client device to the system administrator.

Claims

1. A client device reservation system comprising:

a network unit for performing data transmission;

a client device database for at least storing client device data;

a user database for storing user data;

a web server for installing a client device reservation interface; and

at least one terminal device connected to the web server by the network unit, for allowing a user to login the web server via the terminal device to operate the client device reservation interface, and allowing the client device reservation interface to determine an access right of the user and a client device status according to the data stored in the client device database and the user data stored in the user database, such that the user remotely performs a reservation of a client device or message feedback, and the client device database is updated according to the user'"'"'s performance.

2. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the client device reservation interface comprises:

a security control module for deciding the user'"'"'s rights of accessing the client device database and performing functions provided by the system according to the user database, and for displaying a personal web according to the user'"'"'s rights;

a device reservation/cancellation module for cooperating with the security control module to allow the user to reserve a client device that has not been reserved, and for locking the reserved client device to prevent other users from reserving the same client device, the device reservation/cancellation module further for allowing the user to cancel the reservation of the client device and unlocking the locked client device for the other users to reserve;

a data transmission module for sending relevant notification to email systems of associated personnel via the network unit;

a user feedback module for allowing the user to provide a feedback message on the reserved client device, storing the feedback message in a user feedback data file of the client device database, and sending the feedback message to the associated personnel via the data transmission module; and

an overdue monitor module for regularly comparing present time of the system with a reservation deadline, and sending overdue notification via the data transmission module when the present time is later than the reservation deadline.

3. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the network unit is Internet.

4. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the network unit is an intranet.

5. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the client device database is installed in the web server.

6. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the web server is connected to the client device database by the network unit.

7. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the user database is installed in the web server.

8. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the web server is connected to the user database by the network unit.

9. The client device reservation system of claim 1, wherein the message feedback refers to reporting of the user'"'"'s comment on the client device after using the client device.

10. A client device reservation method comprising the steps of:

providing a network unit connected to a web server and a terminal device;

installing a client device reservation interface in the web server connected with the network unit and installing a browser in the terminal device;

storing user data in a user database;

storing client device data in a client device database; and

allowing a user to be linked to the web server by the browser of the terminal device to operate the client device reservation interface, and allowing the client device reservation interface to determine an access right of the user and a client device status according to the data stored in the client device database and the user data stored in the user database, such that the user remotely performs a reservation of a client device or message feedback, and the client device database is updated according to the user'"'"'s performance.

11. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the process of performing the reservation and message feedback comprises:

allowing the client device reservation interface to reserve a client device that has not been reserved, lock the reserved client device to prevent other users from reserving the same client device, and notify associated personnel via emails; and

allowing the client device reservation interface to build a user feedback data file according to a feedback message of the use and notify the associated personnel by emails.

12. The client device reservation method of claim 11, wherein the client device reservation interface further allows the user to cancel the reservation of the client device and unlocks the locked client device for the other users to reserve, as well as notifies the associated personnel by emails.

13. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the client device reservation interface is further capable of monitoring whether the reservation of the client device is overdue, and sending an overdue message to the associated personnel by emails.

14. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the network unit is Internet.

15. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the network unit is an intranet.

16. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the client device database is installed in the web server.

17. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the web server is connected to the client device database by the network unit.

18. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the user database is installed in the web server.

19. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the web server is connected to the user database by the network unit.

20. The client device reservation method of claim 10, wherein the message feedback refers to reporting of the user'"'"'s comment on the client device after using the client device.