Management system

• US 8,089,341 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2005
• Issued: 01/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Hisashi, Anegawa, Takehiko, Yano, Yoshihiro, Chikada, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, QUANG
• Application Number:
  US11/718,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20090058594A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,254 Days
• Field of Search: 340 52- 528, 340/5.61, 340/572.1, 705 711- 715, 705/7.21, 705/7.27, 705/7.42, 235375-376, 235/385
• US Class Current: 340/5.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Abstract

A management system manages use of management object provided in facilities by using an information storage medium of a user. An entrance management apparatus, provided in the vicinity of an entrance of the facilities, stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object on an information storage medium when the user enters the facilities. In the facilities, a use management apparatus, provided for each management object, controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium. Additionally, the use management apparatus stores, in the information storage medium, use information showing that the management object is used. Further, a room leaving management apparatus, provided in the vicinity of an exit of the facilities, manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium. When the user leaves the facilities, it is controlled whether or not the user can leave the facilities, and use history information is stored, based on the use information.

Claims

1. A management system which uses an information storage medium carried by a user to manage use of a management object provided in a facility, comprising:

an entrance management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facility, which stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object onto the information storage medium when the user enters the facility;

a use management apparatus, provided for each management object, which controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and which stores, on the information storage medium, use information indicating that the management object is used by the user; and

a leaving management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facility, which manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium when the user leaves the facility,

wherein the facility includes plural independent spaces, and the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus are provided in each of the plural spaces,

wherein the entrance management apparatus stores the use permission information corresponding to the space on the information storage medium when the user enters the space corresponding to the entrance management apparatus, and

wherein the leaving management apparatus changes the use permission information stored on the information storage medium to the use permission information corresponding to another space outside of the space when the user leaves the space corresponding to the leaving management apparatus,

wherein the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus provided in each of the plural spaces, are each configured to change the use permission information stored on the information storage medium such that the management object is only available when the user passes through a predetermined route through the plural independent spaces.

2. The management system according to claim 1,

wherein the management object and the use management apparatus corresponding to the management object are provided in the space, and

wherein the use management apparatus executes control to make corresponding management object available when the use permission information stored on the information storage medium coincides with the use permission information corresponding to the space.

3. A management system which uses an information storage medium carried by a user to manage use of a management object provided in a facility, comprising:

an entrance management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facility, which stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object onto the information storage medium when the user enters the facility;

a plurality of use management apparatuses, each provided for each management object, which controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and which stores, on the information storage medium, use information indicating that the management object is used by the user; and

a leaving management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facility, which manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium when the user leaves the facility,

wherein the facility includes plural independent spaces, and the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus are provided in each of the plural spaces,

wherein at least one of the use management apparatuses controls the availability or unavailability of the management object by using the use information, stored on the information storage medium by another one of the use management apparatuses, as the use permission information,

wherein the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus provided in each of the plural spaces, are each configured to change the use permission information stored on the information storage medium such that the management object is only available when the user passes through a predetermined route through the plural independent spaces.

4. A management system which uses an information storage medium carried by a user to manage use of a management object provided in a facility, comprising:

an entrance management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facility, which stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object onto the information storage medium when the user enters the facility;

a use management apparatus, provided for each management object, which controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and which stores, on the information storage medium, use information indicating that the management object is used by the user; and

a leaving management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facility, which manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium when the user leaves the facility,

wherein the facility includes plural independent spaces, and the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus are provided in each of the plural spaces,

wherein the entrance management apparatus includes a material storage apparatus provided inside or outside the facility, and stores the use permission information on the information storage medium only when a predetermined material is stored in the material storage apparatus,

wherein the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus provided in each of the plural spaces, are each configured to change the use permission information stored on the information storage medium such that the management object is only available when the user passes through a predetermined route through the plural independent spaces.

5. A management system which uses an information storage medium carried by a user to manage use of a management object provided in a facility, comprising:

an entrance management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facility, which stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object onto the information storage medium when the user enters the facility;

a use management apparatus, provided for each management object, which controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and which stores, on the information storage medium, use information indicating that the management object is used by the user; and

a leaving management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facility, which manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium when the user leaves the facility,

wherein the facility includes plural independent spaces, and the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus are provided in each of the plural spaces,

wherein the entrance management apparatus stores, on the information storage medium, the use permission information of only a predetermined specific management object of the plural management objects provided in the facility,

wherein the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus provided in each of the plural spaces, are each configured to change the use permission information stored on the information storage medium such that the management object is only available when the user passes through a predetermined route through the plural independent spaces.

6. A management system which uses an information storage medium carried by a user to manage use of a management object provided in a facility, comprising:

an entrance management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an entrance of the facility, which stores use permission information for permitting the use of the management object onto the information storage medium when the user enters the facility;

a use management apparatus, provided for each management object, which controls availability or unavailability of the management object based on the use permission information stored on the information storage medium, and which stores, on the information storage medium, use information indicating that the management object is used by the user; and

a leaving management apparatus, provided in a vicinity of an exit of the facility, which manages leaving of the user based on the use information stored on the information storage medium when the user leaves the facility,

wherein the facility includes plural independent spaces, and the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus are provided in each of the plural spaces,

wherein user identification information is stored on the information storage medium, and wherein the entrance management apparatus includes;

a first storing unit which stores information of the management object available for the user in correspondence with the user identification information, and a second storing unit which stores, on the information storage medium, the use permission information of the management object corresponding to the user identification information stored on the information storage medium,

wherein the entrance management apparatus and the leaving management apparatus provided in each of the plural spaces, are each configured to change the use permission information stored on the information storage medium such that the management object is only available when the user passes through a predetermined route through the plural independent spaces.