APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USER SCHEDULE

• US 20100064293A1
• Filed: 09/02/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: PARK, Yunkyung, KANG, Kyuchang, LEE, Jeunwoo
• Application Number:
  US12/552,450
• Publication Number:
  US 20100064293A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/508 Monitor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

The present invention estimates a schedule of a user by collecting and analyzing information on a user-related work to be performed by accessing a schedule management program on the basis of corresponding user information when the user enters a region capable of using computing resources and executes a service application program that can perform the corresponding scheduled job through a virtual machine by automatically creating the virtual machine of a computing environment that can perform the estimated scheduled job. According to the present invention, a virtual machine is dynamically created so as to execute a work grasped as a work that the user must perform by analyzing a current schedule while access of the user and an application program for performing the corresponding work in the created virtual machine is automatically executed, such that user convenience is increased.

Claims

1. An apparatus for managing a user schedule that manages a schedule of a user by receiving schedule information from a schedule management server, comprising:

a schedule management unit that collects schedule information registered with respect to a corresponding user by accessing the schedule management server while access of the user and extracts information on a schedule to be performed;

an execution environment management unit that determines a work environment for performing the corresponding schedule from the extracted schedule information and allocates resources in accordance with the determined work environment; and

a processing unit that creates a user virtual machine for performing the scheduled job of the corresponding user in the work environment formed by using the resources allocated by the execution environment management unit.

2. The apparatus for managing a user schedule according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit dynamically creates the user virtual machine in accordance with work environment determined by the extracted schedule information.

3. The apparatus for managing a user schedule according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit selects an application program for performing the extracted schedule and provides the corresponding application program to the user virtual machine.

4. The apparatus for managing a user schedule according to claim 3, wherein the user virtual machine includes a plurality of application programs, and detects and executes a corresponding application programs among the plurality of application programs on the basis of information provided from the processing unit.

5. The apparatus for managing a user schedule according to claim 1, further comprising:

an authentication unit that performs user authentication for a corresponding user on the basis of user information inputted from the user.

6. The apparatus for managing a user schedule according to claim 5, wherein the authentication unit performs authentication of the corresponding user by receiving user profile information from a user authentication terminal in which user authentication information for the user authentication is stored.

7. The apparatus for managing a user schedule according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user information management unit that manages the user authentication information for the user authentication.

8. A method for managing a user schedule that manages a schedule of a user by receiving schedule information from a schedule management server, comprising:

collecting schedule information of a corresponding user from the schedule management server while access of the user and extracting information on a schedule to be performed among the collected schedule information;

determining a work environment for performing the corresponding scheduled job from the extracted schedule information and allocating resources in accordance with the determined work environment; and

creating a user virtual machine for performing the scheduled job of the corresponding user in the work environment formed by using the allocated resources.

9. The method for managing a user schedule according to claim 8, further comprising:

selecting an application program for performing the extracted scheduled job and providing information on the corresponding application program to a virtual machine.

10. The method for managing a user schedule according to claim 8, further comprising:

before collecting the schedule information of the user, performing authentication of the user on the basis of user authentication information provided from the user.