Entrustee information transmitting program, entrustee information transmitting apparatus, and entrustee information transmitting method

• US 20090026264A1
• Filed: 07/11/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Watanabe, Nobuo, Nakao, Yoshio, Maruhashi, Koji, Yamakawa, Hiroshi, Asaoka, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,991,700 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/386
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3821 Electronic credentials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services

Abstract

An entrustee information transmitting method includes an entrustment managing storage storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entrusters in an entrustment managing storage unit; an attendance managing storage storing attendance information of respective voters in an attendance managing storage unit in units of bills; an indirect-entrustment voter extracting operation of extracting one or more indirect-entrustment voter who indirectly entrust an attendee by using the entrustment relationship information and the attendance information; an entrustee determining operation of determining attendees who are indirectly entrusted by the indirect-entrustment voters to be recommended entrustees; and an entrustee information transmitting operation of transmitting information of the recommended entrustees.

Claims

1. A computer-readable recording medium containing an entrustee information transmitting program allowing a computer to execute an entrustee information transmitting method for transmitting information of entrustees to one or more indirect-entrustment voters who indirectly entrust an attendee of a decision that is made through voting by a plurality of voters, comprising:

an entrustment managing storage procedure of storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entrusters in an entrustment managing storage unit;

an attendance managing storage procedure of storing attendance information of respective voters in an attendance managing storage unit in units of bills;

an indirect-entrustment voter extracting procedure of extracting one or more indirect-entrustment voter who indirectly entrust an attendee by using the entrustment relationship information stored in the entrustment managing storage unit and the attendance information stored in the attendance managing storage unit;

an entrustee determining procedure of determining attendees who are indirectly entrusted by the indirect-entrustment voters extracted in the indirect-entrustment voter extracting procedure to be recommended entrustees; and

an entrustee information transmitting procedure of transmitting information of the recommended entrustees determined in the entrustee determining procedure to the indirect-entrustment voters.

2. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 1, further comprising:

an ineffective voter extracting procedure of extracting one or more ineffective voters who do not entrust any attendee by using the entrustment relationship information stored in the entrustment managing storage unit and the attendance information stored in the attendance managing storage unit; and

an attitude change request transmitting procedure of transmitting a request for changing entrustment or a prompt for attendance to the ineffective voters extracted in the ineffective voter extracting procedure.

3. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 1,

wherein the entrustee information transmitting procedure transmits the information of the recommended entrustees to the indirect-entrustment voter after a predetermined period has passed from the preceding transmission of the information of the recommended entrustees.

4. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 1,

wherein the entrustee determining procedure determines all attendees who are indirectly entrusted to be the recommended entrustees.

5. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 1,

wherein the entrustee determining procedure calculates the shortest path length of an entrustment relationship to the respective attendees for each of the indirect-entrustment voters and determines attendees of a short path length to be the recommended entrustees.

6. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 1,

wherein the entrustee determining procedure calculates the number of entrustment votes obtained from the voters as a whole and the number of entrustment votes obtained from the voters except the indirect-entrustment voters for each attendee, subtracts the number of entrustment votes obtained from the voters except the indirect-entrustment voters from the number of entrustment votes obtained from the voters as a whole so as to calculate the number of individual entrustment votes, and determines attendees obtained a large number of individual entrustment votes to be the recommended entrustees.

7. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 1, further comprising:

an entrustee change permission accepting procedure of accepting a change permission setting to permit change of an entrustee from the voter; and

an entrustee changing procedure of changing an entrustee to the recommended entrustee determined in the entrustee determining procedure after accepting the change permission setting in the entrustee change permission accepting procedure.

8. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 2,

wherein the attitude change request transmitting procedure transmits the request for changing entrustment or the prompt for attendance to the ineffective voter after a predetermined period has passed from the preceding transmission of the request or the prompt.

9. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 2,

wherein the attitude change request transmitting procedure transmits the request for changing entrustment or the prompt for attendance to the ineffective voter who has obtained a large number of entrustment votes from other voters.

10. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 2,

wherein the attitude change request transmitting procedure specifies an influential voter in each group and transmits the request for changing entrustment or the prompt for attendance to the influential voter.

11. The computer-readable recording medium containing the entrustee information transmitting program according to claim 2,

wherein the attitude change request transmitting procedure transmits information of attendees as recommended entrustees together with the request for changing entrustment.

12. An entrustee information transmitting apparatus to transmit information of entrustees to one or more indirect-entrustment voters who indirectly entrust an attendee of a decision that is made through voting by a plurality of voters, the apparatus comprising:

entrustment managing storage means for storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entrusters in an entrustment managing storage unit;

attendance managing storage means for storing attendance information of respective voters in an attendance managing storage unit in units of bills;

indirect-entrustment voter extracting means for extracting one or more indirect-entrustment voter who indirectly entrust an attendee by using the entrustment relationship information stored in the entrustment managing storage unit and the attendance information stored in the attendance managing storage unit;

entrustee determining means for determining attendees who are indirectly entrusted by the indirect-entrustment voters extracted by the indirect-entrustment voter extracting means to be recommended entrustees; and

entrustee information transmitting means for transmitting information of the recommended entrustees determined by the entrustee determining means to the indirect-entrustment voters.

13. An entrustee information transmitting method for transmitting information of entrustees to one or more indirect-entrustment voters who indirectly entrust an attendee of a decision that is made through voting by a plurality of voters, the method comprising:

storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entrusters in an entrustment managing storage unit;

storing attendance information of respective voters in an attendance managing storage unit in units of bills;

extracting one or more indirect-entrustment voter who indirectly entrust an attendee by using the entrustment relationship information stored in the entrustment managing storage unit and the attendance information stored in the attendance managing storage unit;

determining attendees who are indirectly entrusted by the indirect-entrustment voters extracted in the indirect-entrustment voter extracting to be recommended entrustees; and

transmitting information of the recommended entrustees determined in the entrustee determining to the indirect-entrustment voters.