JOB SUPPORTING APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL AND JOB SUPPORTING METHOD

• US 20130238376A1
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwamoto, Natsuko, Suzuki, Katsuyuki, Kawamoto, Shunichiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,262,733 B2
• 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

A job supporting apparatus comprises a management section configured to manage a job schedule, containing a predetermined job content to be carried out by a person in charge and a work position at which the job content is performed, that is associated with respective portable terminal carried by each person in charge, a position specifying section configured to specify the position of the portable terminal, a first extracting section configured to extract a job schedule containing a work position corresponding to the location of the portable terminal specified by the position specifying section from the job schedules associated with the portable terminals, and a first notifying section configured to notify the job schedule extracted by the first extracting section to a portable terminal associated with the extracted job schedule.

Claims

1. A job supporting apparatus, comprising:

a management section configured to manage a job schedule, containing a predetermined job content to be carried out by a person in charge and a work position where the job content is performed, that is associated with respective portable terminal carried by each person in charge;

a position specifying section configured to specify the location of the portable terminal;

a first extracting section configured to extract a job schedule containing a work position corresponding to the location of the portable terminal specified by the position specifying section from the job schedules associated with the portable terminals; and

a first notifying section configured to notify the job schedule extracted by the first extracting section to a portable terminal associated with the extracted job schedule.

2. The job supporting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first acceptance section configured to receive from the portable terminal that receives the notification designation on a job schedule, as an execution target, within the job schedules notified to the portable terminal by the first notifying section, and

a state management section configured to manage the job state of the job schedule, as a working, the designation of which is received by the first acceptance section.

3. The job supporting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a second extracting section configured to extract a job schedule containing a work position corresponding to the location of the portable terminal specified by the position specifying section from the job schedules associated with another portable terminal different from the specified portable terminal;

a second notifying section configured to notify the job schedule extracted by the second extracting section to the another portable terminal associated with the job schedule extracted;

a second acceptance section configured to receive from the another portable terminal designation on a job schedule, as a substitution-doing candidate, within the job schedules notified to the another portable terminal by the second notifying section, and

a substitution request section configured to request the substitution-doing of the job schedule designation of which is received by the second acceptance section to the portable terminal specified by the position specifying section.

4. A portable terminal carried by each parson in charge, comprising:

an acquisition section configured to acquire a job schedule containing a work position corresponding to the location of a portable terminal including the acquisition section from a job supporting apparatus which manages a job schedule, containing a predetermined job content to be carried out by a person in charge who carries the portable terminal and a work position where the job content is executed, that is associated with each portable terminal; and

a display section configured to display the job schedule acquired by the acquisition section on a display section.

5. The portable terminal according to claim 4, comprising:

an acceptance section configured to receive the designation on a job schedule, as an execution target, within the job schedule displayed on the display section; and

a notifying section configured to notify the job supporting apparatus of the job schedule received by the acceptance section as an execution target so that the job supporting apparatus manages the job state of the notified job schedule as a working.

6. A job supporting method, including:

managing a job schedule, containing a predetermined job content to be carried out by a person in charge and a work position where the job content is carried out by the person in charge, that is associated with the portable terminal carried by each person in charge;

specifying the position of the portable terminal;

extracting a job schedule containing a work position corresponding to the specified location of the portable terminal from the job schedules associated with the portable terminals; and

notifying the extracted job schedule to the portable terminal associated with the extracted job schedule.