TASK COORDINATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TASK COORDINATION SUPPORT METHOD

• US 20120265575A1
• Filed: 03/08/2012
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Torii, Kentaro, Uchihira, Naoshi, Chino, Tetsuro, Tanaka, Toshiaki
• Application Number:
  US13/414,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20120265575A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group

Abstract

There is provided a task coordination support system for staffs each holding a mobile terminal in which the task information storage stores information on tasks to be implemented by the staff and task flow information showing constraint on order to implement the tasks, the receiving unit receives sensor information from the mobile terminal, the storage stores received sensor information therein, the estimating unit calculates, for each of the tasks, accuracy at which a predetermined implementation status is reached and estimates a task reached the predetermined implementation status among tasks not yet reached the predetermined implementation status, and the tweet message generator/deliverer generate a message corresponding to an estimated task, determine as a destination of the message a mobile terminal of a staff previously related to the estimated task which is different from the staff in charge of the estimated task and deliver the message to the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A task coordination support system for staffs each holding a mobile terminal, comprising:

a task information storage to store information on tasks to be implemented by the staffs and task flow information showing constraint on order to implement the tasks;

a sensor data receiving unit to receive sensor information from the mobile terminal;

a status storage to store task status information containing received sensor information;

an estimating unit configured to calculate, for each of the tasks, accuracy at which an predetermined implementation status is reached based on the task information storage and the status storage and to estimate a task reached the predetermined implementation status among tasks not yet reached the predetermined implementation status based on calculated accuracy; and

a tweet message generator/deliverer configured to generate a message corresponding to an estimated task, determine as a destination of the message a mobile terminal of a staff previously related to the estimated task which is different from the staff in charge of the estimated task, and deliver the message to a determined mobile terminal.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the task information storage stores a time zone for which each task is to be implemented and an implementation location of each task, and

the sensor data receiving unit sequentially obtains location information of the staff as the sensor information.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the estimating unit calculates already-implemented accuracy being accuracy at which the implementation of the task is completed as the accuracy which the predetermined implementation status is reached, and determines whether the implementation of the task is completed based on the already-implemented accuracy.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the estimating unit further calculates the already-implemented accuracy by use of at least one of items among acceleration of the staff, voice data of the staff and information on whether or not an ID of a patient nearest to the staff is coincident with an ID of a task target patient.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein the tweet message generator/deliverer includes:

a query unit to transmit a query message of whether the implementation of the task is completed to the mobile terminal of the staff; and

a response receiving unit to receive a response to the query message from the mobile terminal, and

the estimating unit presumes that the implementation of the, task will have been completed when the response indicates that the implementation of the task is completed.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the query unit transmits again the query message after a fixed period of time when the response indicates that the implementation of the task is not yet completed.

7. The system according to claim 3, wherein the task information storage stores information on a period of time required for implementing the task, and

the estimating unit adds the period of time required for implementing the task to a time when the staff arrives at the implementation location, and determines that the implementation of the task will have been completed when reaching an added time.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the time required for implementing the task is a total of average implementation time of the task and a value obtained by multiplying a standard deviation of the task implementation time by an arbitrary parameter.

9. The system according to claim 3, wherein the sensor data receiving unit receives, as the sensor information, tweet data including implementation status of the task from the mobile terminal, and

the estimating unit estimates a task of which implementation is completed based on the tweet data.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the estimating unit estimates a task of which implementation is underway as the task reached the predetermined implementation status, and

the tweet message generator/deliverer transmits a message indicating that the implementation of the estimated task is started to the staff related to the estimated task, which is different from the staff in charge of the estimated task.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the estimating unit calculates implementation-underway accuracy being accuracy at which the implementation of the task is underway as the accuracy which the predetermined implementation status is reached, and determines based on the implementation-underway accuracy whether the implementation of the task is underway.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the estimating unit further calculates the implementation-underway accuracy by use of at least one of items among acceleration of the staff, voice data of the staff and information on whether or not the ID of the patient nearest to the staff is coincident with the ID of the task target patient.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein the sensor data receiving unit receives tweet data including task implementation status from the mobile terminal,

the status storage stores the tweet data, and

the tweet message generator/deliverer includes a data browse unit to present, in response to a request given from a mobile terminal, the tweet data in the status storage to the mobile terminal.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the tweet data is voice data,

the sensor data receiving unit converts the tweet data into a text format to obtain text data, and

the status storage stores the text data.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the sensor data receiving unit extracts a keyword from the text data by a keyword extraction, and

the status storage stores the keyword extracted by the sensor data receiving unit therein.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein the task information storage retains a time zone for which each task is to be implemented and an implementation location of each task,

the sensor data receiving unit sequentially obtains location information of the staff as the sensor information, and receives tweet data of the staff from the mobile terminal, and

the tweet message generator/deliverer generates a message for notifying that the predetermined implementation status is reached with respect the estimated task, and delivers the message to the determined mobile terminal.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the message deliverer delivers the message at timing depending on the destination of the message.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein each staff belongs to at least one of a plurality of attributes, and

the tweet message generator/deliverer determines at least one of the attributes, and delivers the message to a mobile terminal of a staff belonging to a determined attribute.

19. The system according to claim 16, wherein when there is no task of which the accuracy of the predetermined implementation status is equal to or higher than a threshold value, the tweet message generator/deliverer delivers respective messages to destinations corresponding to tasks of which accuracy of the predetermined implementation status is equal to or higher than a fixed value, the fixed value is lower than the threshold value.

20. The system according to claim 16, wherein the tweet message generator/deliverer uses delivery hint information including delivery purposes of a message for the tasks and determines the destination of the message corresponding to the estimated task based on the delivery purpose of the estimated task.

21. A task coordination support method for staffs each holding a mobile terminal, comprising:

receiving sensor information from the mobile terminal;

storing a task status information containing received sensor information in a status storage;

accessing a task information storage to store information on tasks to be implemented by the staffs and task flow information showing constraint on order to implement the tasks;

calculating, for each of the tasks, accuracy at which an predetermined implementation status is reached based on the task information storage and the status storage and estimating a task reached the predetermined implementation status among tasks not yet reached the predetermined implementation status based on calculated accuracy; and

generating a message corresponding to an estimated task, determining as a destination of the message a mobile terminal of a staff previously related to the estimated task which is different from the staff in charge of the estimated task, and delivering the message to a determined mobile terminal.