MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090058594A1
• Filed: 11/01/2005
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Hisashi, Chikada, Takayuki, Yano, Yoshihiro, Anegawa, Takehiko
• Granted Patent: US 8,089,341 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.700
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Abstract

A management system manages use of management object provided in facilities by using an information storage medium of a user. An entrance management apparatus, provided in the vicinity of an entrance of the facilities, stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object on an information storage medium when the user enters the facilities. In the facilities, a use management apparatus, provided for each management object, controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium. Additionally, the use management apparatus stores, in the information storage medium, use information showing that the management object is used. Further, a room leaving management apparatus, provided in the vicinity of an exit of the facilities, manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium. When the user leaves the facilities, it is controlled whether or not the user can leave the facilities, and use history information is stored, based on the use information.

Claims

1. A management system which uses an information storage medium of a user to manage use of a management object provided in facilities, comprising:

an entrance management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facilities, which stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object onto the information storage medium when the user enters the facilities;

a use management apparatus, provided in each management object, which controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and which stores, on the information storage medium, use information showing that the management object is used; and

a leaving management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facilities, which manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium when the user leaves the room.

2. The management system according to claim 1,

wherein identification information of the user is stored on the information storage medium,

wherein the entrance management apparatus includes:

a unit which stores collation identification information, showing a user permitted to enter the facilities;

a unit which reads the identification information of the user from the information storage medium; and

an entrance control unit which collates the identification information read from the information storage medium with the collation identification information, and enables the user to enter the facilities when they coincide.

3. The management system according to claim 2, wherein the leaving management apparatus includes a storage unit which associates the use information stored on the information storage medium with the identification information of the user to store it.

4. The management system according to claim 3, wherein the leaving management apparatus includes an erasing unit which erases the use permission information and the use information stored on the information storage medium.

5. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the use management apparatus erases the use information stored on the information storage medium after the user uses the management object.

6. The management system according to claim 2, wherein the use management apparatus includes a control unit which makes the management object unavailable when it is determined that the use permission information stored on the information storage medium does not store information showing availability.

7. The management system according to claim 1,

wherein the facilities include plural independent spaces, and the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus are provided in each of the plural spaces,

wherein the entrance management apparatus stores use permission information corresponding to the space on the information storage medium when the user enters the space corresponding to the entrance management apparatus, and

wherein the leaving management apparatus rewrites the use permission information stored on the information storage medium to the use permission information corresponding to a space out of the space when the user leaves the space corresponding to the leaving management apparatus.

8. The management system according to claim 7,

wherein the management object and the use management apparatus corresponding to the management object are provided in the space, and

wherein the use management apparatus executes control to make the correspondent management object available when the use permission information stored on the information storage medium coincides with the use permission information corresponding to the space.

9. The management system according to claim 1, comprising the plural use management apparatuses,

wherein at least one of the use management apparatuses controls the availability or unavailability of the management object managed by said at least one of the use management apparatuses, by prescribing the use information, stored on the information storage medium by another of the use management apparatuses, as the use permission information.

10. The management system according to claim 1,

wherein the entrance management apparatus includes a time recorder provided in the facilities, and

wherein the time recorder stores, on the information storage medium, specifying information of the time recorder as the use permission information, in addition to date and time information.

11. The management system according to claim 1,

wherein the entrance management apparatus includes a material storage apparatus provided inside or outside the facilities, and stores the use permission information on the information storage medium only when a predetermined material is stored in the material storage apparatus.

12. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the entrance management apparatus stores, on the information storage medium, the use permission information of only a predetermined specific management object of the plural management objects provided in the facilities.

13. The management system according to claim 1,

wherein user identification information is stored on the information storage medium, and

wherein the entrance management apparatus including:

a storage unit which stores information of the management object available for the user in correspondence with the user identification information, and

a unit which stores, on the information storage medium, the use permission information of the management object corresponding to the user identification information stored on the information storage medium.

14. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the leaving management apparatus includes a unit which prohibits the user from leaving the facilities when the use information is not stored on the information storage medium.

15. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the leaving management apparatus includes a unit which prohibits the user from leaving the facilities when the use information of all the management objects that the user can use is not stored on the information storage medium.

16. A management method which manages use of a management object provided in facilities by using an information storage medium of a user, comprising:

a step which stores use permission information for permitting use of the management object on the information storage medium by an entrance management apparatus provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facilities when the user enters the facilities;

a step which controls availability or unavailability of the management object by a use management apparatus provided in each management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and stores, on the information storage medium, use information showing that the management object is used; and

a step which determines whether or not the user can leave the facilities by a leaving management apparatus provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facilities, based on the use information stored on the information storage medium, when the user leaves the facilities.