RESERVATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM FOR RESERVATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE

• US 20130253964A1
• Filed: 03/08/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Itakura, Katsuyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/790,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20130253964A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A reservation management device including a communication unit which receives an e-mail including reservation information regarding a service reservation in a form which is previously determined depending on a source address; a first storage unit which stores recognition procedure information so as to be associated with the source address, the recognition procedure information indicating a procedure for recognizing the reservation information from the e-mail; and a control unit which recognizes the reservation information from the e-mail in a procedure corresponding to the source address of the e-mail received by the communication unit by using the recognition procedure information stored in the first storage unit and stores the reservation information in a second storage unit.

Claims

1. A reservation management device, comprising:

a communication unit which receives an e-mail including reservation information regarding a service reservation in a form which is previously determined depending on a source address;

a first storage unit which stores recognition procedure information so as to be associated with the source address, the recognition procedure information indicating a procedure for recognizing the reservation information from the e-mail; and

a control unit which recognizes the reservation information from the e-mail in a procedure corresponding to the source address of the e-mail received by the communication unit by using the recognition procedure information stored in the first storage unit and stores the reservation information in a second storage unit.

2. The reservation management device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit makes a printing unit print the recognized reservation information.

3. The reservation management device according to claim 1, wherein

the recognition procedure information includes identification information of the procedure for recognizing the reservation information in a message text of the e-mail corresponding to a predetermined source address, and

when the source address of the e-mail received by the communication unit corresponds to the recognition procedure information for recognizing the reservation information in the message text, the control unit recognizes the reservation information from a text at a predetermined position in the message of the e-mail according to the recognition procedure information.

4. The reservation management device according to claim 1, wherein

the recognition procedure information includes identification information of a procedure for performing image recognition on the reservation information from image data attached to the e-mail corresponding to the predetermined source address, and

when the source address of the e-mail received by the communication unit corresponds to the recognition procedure information for the image recognition of the reservation information in the image data, the control unit performs the image recognition on the image data attached to the e-mail to recognize the reservation information as character information according to the recognition procedure information.

5. The reservation management device according to claim 1, wherein

the first storage unit stores a forwarding address of the reservation information corresponding to the source address, and

when the source address of the e-mail received by the communication unit corresponds to the forwarding address stored in the first storage unit, the control unit sends the recognized reservation information to the forwarding address via the communication unit.

6. A non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a program for making a computer execute a procedure, the procedure comprising:

receiving an e-mail including reservation information regarding a service reservation in a form which is previously determined depending on a source address;

storing recognition procedure information in a first storage unit so as to be associated with the source address, the recognition procedure information indicating a procedure for recognizing the reservation information from the e-mail; and

recognizing the reservation information from the e-mail in the procedure corresponding to the source address of the received e-mail by using the recognition procedure information stored in the first storage unit and storing the reservation information in a second storage unit.