MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

• US 20130198212A1
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IPS Corporation (Milliken & Company)
• Original Assignee: IPS Corporation (Milliken & Company)
• Inventors: Akita, Toshifumi
• Application Number:
  US13/576,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20130198212A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2428 Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms G06F16/2423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2455 Query execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24553 of query operations

Abstract

A mobile terminal management server in which ERP runs provides a search condition designation screen (for example, a slip search screen) used to designate a search condition in response to the request from mobile terminals; receives a search condition designated through the search condition designation screen on which selection item arrangement circle display regions to display selection item arrangement circles, in each of which a plurality of selection items are arranged substantially on a circumference, are provided; searches for report data satisfying the search condition by referring to a process flow table in which process flow data containing status data, common data and process unique data are stored; and provides search result data (a search result list display screen) representing the searched report data to the mobile terminals as a search result.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal management server for providing various kinds of data to a mobile terminal used by a user via a communication network in response to a request from the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal management server being a server in which ERP runs, the mobile terminal management server comprising:

a process flow data storage section for storing process flow data, the process flow data containing various kinds of data on process flow, the process flow including a plurality of business process;

a search condition designation screen providing section that provides a search condition designation screen used to designate a search condition in response to the request from the mobile terminal;

a search condition receiving section that receives a search condition designated through the search condition designation screen from the mobile terminal;

a report data searching section that searches for report data satisfying the search condition received by the search condition receiving section by referring to the process flow data stored in the process flow data storage section; and

a search result providing section that provides search result data to the mobile terminal as a search result, the search result data representing the report data searched by the report data searching section,

wherein the process flow data are data containing status data, common data and process unique data,

wherein the status data are data representing a progress situation of each of a plurality of business processes included in the process flow,

wherein the common data are data common among the business processes included in the same process flow,

wherein the process unique data are data unique to each of the business processes included in the same process flow, and

wherein a selection item arrangement circle display region for displaying a selection item arrangement circle is provided on the search condition designation screen, and a plurality of selection items selectable to designate a search condition are arranged substantially on the circumference of the selection item arrangement circle.

2. The mobile terminal management server according to claim 1, wherein a selection item rotation rendering setup is made in the selection item arrangement circle display region so that selection item rotation rendering in which the plurality of selection items are rotationally moved on the circumference of the selection item arrangement circle is carried out in accordance with a predetermined rotation instruction operation of the mobile terminal by the user.

3. The mobile terminal management server according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of selection item arrangement circle display regions are provided on the search condition designation screen.

4. The mobile terminal management server according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of selection item arrangement circle display regions are set up so that a part of the selection item arrangement circle display regions is partially superimposed, and the selection items arranged on the selection item arrangement circle displayed in each of the selection item arrangement circle display regions are configured to have a display form different from that of any other selection item arrangement circle.

5. The mobile terminal management server according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of selection item arrangement circle display regions are provided on the search condition designation screen for every predetermined class,

wherein selection items arranged substantially on a circumference of a first selection item arrangement circle displayed in a first selection item arrangement circle display region are report type selection items used to designate one or more report type as a search condition,

wherein selection items arranged substantially on a circumference of a second selection item arrangement circle displayed in a second selection item arrangement circle display region are detailed condition selection items used to designate one or more detailed condition among detailed conditions including at least one of a date, a customer, and an organization as a search condition,

wherein the search condition receiving section receives the search condition including the report type designated through the search condition designation screen and at least one of the detailed conditions from the mobile terminal, and

wherein the report data searching section searches for report data that have the designated report type and satisfy the designated detailed condition in accordance with the search condition received by the search condition receiving section.

6. The mobile terminal management server according to claim 5, wherein selection items arranged substantially on a circumference of a third selection item arrangement circle displayed in a third selection item arrangement circle display region are detailed condition selection items used to designate one or more business process as a search condition,

wherein the search condition receiving section receives the search condition including the business process designated through the search condition designation screen from the mobile terminal, and

wherein the report data searching section searches for report data of the designated business process in accordance with the search condition received by the search condition receiving section.

7. The mobile terminal management server according to claim 1, wherein a search keyword input region used to input a search keyword is provided on the search condition designation screen,

wherein the search condition receiving section receives the search condition including a search keyword inputted into the search keyword input region from the mobile terminal, and

wherein the report data searching section searches for report data that satisfy the search condition further including the search keyword received by the search condition receiving section.

8. A mobile terminal management program for causing ERP to run and causing a mobile terminal management server to carry out a process to provide various kinds of data to a mobile terminal used by a user via a communication network in response to a request from the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal management program causing the mobile terminal management server, provided with a process flow data storage section for storing process flow data containing various kinds of data on a process flow including a plurality of business processes, to execute:

a search condition designation screen providing process to provide a search condition designation screen used to designate a search condition in response to the request from the mobile terminal, a selection item arrangement circle display region being provided on the search condition designation screen to display a selection item arrangement circle in which a plurality of selection items selectable to designate a search condition are arranged substantially on a circumference;

a search condition receiving process to receive a search condition designated through the search condition designation screen from the mobile terminal;

a report data searching process to search for report data satisfying the search condition received in the search condition receiving process by referring to the process flow data stored in the process flow data storage section; and

a search result providing process to provide the report data searched in the report data searching process as a search result,

wherein the process flow data are data containing status data, common data and process unique data,

wherein the status data are data representing a progress situation of each of a plurality of business processes included in the process flow,

wherein the common data are data common among the business processes included in the same process flow, and

wherein the process unique data are data unique to each of the business processes included in the same process flow.