Smart Scheduler Capable of Reflecting Change of Situation

• US 20080275946A1
• Filed: 01/26/2006
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation Foundation
• Original Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation Foundation
• Inventors: Cho, We Duke, Park, Hui Jeong, Yoo, Seong Hun, Huh, Gil
• Application Number:
  US12/158,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20080275946A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Disclosed is a smart scheduler reflecting change of situation. The smart scheduler reflecting change of situation includes an interface unit and an alarm time decision unit. The interface unit both sends and receives contextual information to/from an external service-providing source. The alarm time decision unit reflects the contextual information that is received and updated from the external service-providing source, so that it may decide a final alarm time for performing a fixed schedule, even if any situation change occurs. The smart scheduler has the advantage that the determined schedule may be performed in the time in which a user designates, by differently setting up the alarm time according to the situation changes, whatever situation change brings about.

Claims

1. A smart scheduler, comprising:

an interface unit both sending and receiving a contextual information to/from an external service-providing source; and

an alarm time decision unit deciding a final alarm time for a user to perform a schedule in a schedule time which is decided, although any situation change occurs, reflecting the contextual information which is received from the external service-providing source and updated, wherein the alarm time decision unit comprises;

a provisional alarm time configuration unit which differently sets up a provisional alarm time in response to the contextual information;

a confirmation unit confirming the effectiveness of the provisional alarm time; and

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a final alarm time output unit for outputting the final alarm time in response to the result of the confirmation unit.

2. The smart scheduler of claim 1, wherein the final alarm time is a time a user departs for a destination.

3. The smart scheduler of claim 2, wherein the provisional alarm time is set up in response to an average turnaround time required to the destination according to the contextual information.

4. The smart scheduler of claim 3, wherein the confirmation unit confirms whether the time of adding the average turnaround time to the provisional alarm time falls between the schedule time and the time of subtracting the earlier arrival allowed time from the schedule time.

5. The smart scheduler of claim 4, wherein the final alarm time output unit outputs the final alarm time by correcting the provisional alarm time, in case the time of adding the average turnaround time to the provisional alarm time, according to the confirmation result of the confirmation unit, is later than the schedule time or faster than the time of subtracting the earlier arrival allowed time from the schedule time.

6. The smart scheduler of claim 5, wherein the final alarm time output unit outputs a time being faster as much as a delayed time of subtracting the average turnaround time from the schedule time as the final alarm time, in case a time of adding the average turnaround time to the provisional time is later than the schedule time, and outputs a time being later as much as a lead time of subtracting the average turnaround time from the schedule time as the final alarm time, in case a time of adding the average turnaround time to the provisional time is earlier than the time of subtracting the earlier arrival allowed time from the schedule time.

7. The smart scheduler of claim 4, wherein the final alarm time output unit outputs the provisional alarm time as the final alarm time, in case the time of adding the average turnaround time to the provisional alarm time falls between the schedule time and the time of subtracting the earlier arrival allowed time from the schedule time.

8. The smart scheduler of claim 3, wherein the alarm time decision unit increases a update frequency of the contextual information, as time draws to the schedule time.

9. The smart scheduler of claim 1, wherein the external service—

providing source includes WEB or user.