APPLICATION SOFTWARE GENERATION DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE GENERATION SYSTEM

• US 20100199163A1
• Filed: 01/22/2010
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Nishitani, Koji, MIYAHARA, Kouji, Katsumura, Noriyoshi, Takamura, Hideki
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,583 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

Disclosed is an application software generation device to generate an application software for a data collection device having a reading unit to read discrimination information to carry out collection of data based on the discrimination information including a table data generation unit to generate table data for defining arbitrary items, an application software generation unit to generate an application software which is executed by the data collection device in order to collect the data based on the item which is defined in the table data and a transfer unit to transfer the generated application software to the data collection device.

Claims

1. An application software generation device to generate an application software for a data collection device having a reading unit to read discrimination information to carry out collection of data based on the discrimination information, comprising:

a table data generation unit to generate table data for defining arbitrary items;

an application software generation unit to generate an application software which is executed by the data collection device in order to collect the data based on the item which is defined in the table data; and

a transfer unit to transfer the generated application software to the data collection device.

2. The application software generation device according to claim 1, comprising an assigning unit to assign an item which corresponds to the data to be collected based on the discrimination information.

3. The application software generation device according to claim 2, wherein the assigning unit makes the item which corresponds to the data to be collected based on the discrimination information among the items defined in the table data be visually discriminated from other items.

4. The application software generation device according to claim 3,

wherein the application software comprises

a function to make a display device of the data collection device display a screen to carry out an input of data by the data collection device with respect to the plurality of items which are defined in the table data,

a function to allow input to an item in which a focus is on in the screen, and

a function to move the focus based on a predetermined rule, and

wherein, when an item which corresponds to the data to be collected based on the discrimination information among the items defined in the table data is not a first item to be input, the application software generation unit generates the rule to move the focus to the item which corresponds to the data to be collected based on the discrimination information in a case where the focus is moved by the function to move the focus after an input to an item to be input before the item which corresponds to the data to be collected based on the discrimination information is finished.

5. The application software generation device according to claim 1, comprising:

an empty data generation unit to generate an empty table data having items corresponding to the items which are defined in the table data;

a take-in unit to take in data collected by the data collection device in which the application software is executed; and

a storage unit to store the data which is taken in by the take-in unit in the empty table data.

6. The application software generation device according to claim 1, wherein

the table data generation unit generates a plurality of table data, and

the application software generation unit generates a plurality of application software corresponding to the plurality of table data, respectively.

7. The application software generation device according to claim 6, wherein

the application software generation unit generates the plurality of application software which respectively corresponds to each of the plurality of table data and also generates a menu to select and use any one of the generated plurality of application software, and

the transfer unit transfers the plurality of application software and the menu to the data collection device.

8. A computer program product to make a computer generate an application software for a data collection device having a reading unit to read discrimination information carry out a data collection based on the discrimination information, wherein

the computer program product is readable by the computer and carries out encoding of instructions for executing a computer process,

the computer process includes

a table data generation step to generate table data which defines arbitrary items,

an application software generation step to generate the application software to be executed by the data collection device to collect the data based on the items which are defined in the table data, and

a transfer step to transfer the generated application software to the data collection device.

9. An application software generation system, comprising:

a data collection device having a reading unit to read discrimination information, and

an application software generation device to generate an application software for the data collection device to carry out a data collection based on the discrimination information, wherein

the application software generation device comprises

a table data generation unit to generate table data to define arbitrary items,

an application software generation unit to generate an application to be executed by the data collection device to collect the data based on the items defined in the table data, and

a transfer unit to transfer the generated application software to the data collection device.