Information collecting system

• US 8,984,004 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2012
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC
• Original Assignee: smart-FOA Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Oku, Masaharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Mamillapalli, Pavan
• Application Number:
  US13/410,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290613A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• Field of Search: 707/770
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

An information collecting system includes a dictionary defining the kinds of each supporting information to be added to job-site data and a database of the supporting information. The supporting information is background information including pieces of information indicating an analysis assist material affecting an analysis and an evaluation assist material affecting an evaluation of an analysis result. That is, the job-site data is included as a factor in a fishbone diagram having a shared knowledge of an organization or an organization knowledge as a characteristic, and the background information is other factors in the fishbone diagram including the job-site data as a factor. Each supporting information is searched from the database in accordance with a dictionary, and each searched supporting information is added to the job-site data in addition to attribute data to generate event information.

Claims

1. An information collecting system that is connected to, via a network, a data generating device which adds attribute data to generated job-site data and which transmits the job-site data with the attribute data to the network, the information collecting system being configured to generate event information formed by adding supporting information to the job-site data, and the information collecting system comprising:

a dictionary storing unit that stores a dictionary which defines a kind of each supporting information to be added to the job-site data;

a database that stores pieces of supporting information of various kinds and various contents;

a searching unit that searches each supporting information appropriate for a content of the job-site data from the database in accordance with the dictionary; and

a primary reconfiguring unit that adds the searched supporting information to the job-site data in addition to the attribute data to reconfigure the event information,

wherein;

the dictionary records for each kind of the job-site data, a model of the event information;

the model is constructed so as to recite information indicating a kind of the supporting information to be added to the event information;

the searching unit;

reads, from the model corresponding to a kind of the job-site data, information indicating the kind of the supporting information;

generates a search key corresponding to the kind indicated by referred information by combining the job-site data contained in the event information reconfigured by the primary reconfiguring unit with each already added supporting information; and

searches the supporting information from the database based on the search key; and

the supporting information is background information that includes at least one of pieces of information respectively indicating an editing assist material which is necessary for editing the job-site data, a comparison target data to be compared with the job-site data, an analysis assist material which affects an analysis and an evaluation assist material which affects an evaluation on an analysis result.

2. The information collecting system according to claim 1, wherein

the job-site data is a characteristic in a fishbone diagram,

the background information is a factor in the fishbone diagram which includes the job-site data as the characteristic.

3. The information collecting system according to claim 1, wherein

the job-site data is included as one of factors in a fishbone diagram having a knowledge as a characteristic, and

the background information is other factors in the fishbone diagram including the job-site data as a factor.

4. The information collecting system according to claim 1, wherein

the dictionary storing unit stores, in addition to supporting information for a direct division and available to a job-site level where the data generating device is placed, supporting information for an indirect division indirectly derived from the job-site data and available to various management levels that manage a business activity, and supporting information for a business determination available to a business operation level, and

the event information is reconfigured by being added with the supporting information for the indirect division and the supporting information for a business determination in addition to the supporting information for the direct division by the searching unit and the primary reconfiguring unit.

5. The information collecting system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a client terminal which is connected to the information collecting system via the network and which requests collection of the event information;

a receiving unit that receives each kind of the supporting information from the client terminal;

a secondary reconfiguring unit that extracts the job-site data and each kind of the supporting information received by the receiving unit from the event information reconfigured by the primary reconfiguring unit to reconfigure new event information;

an event information storing unit that stores the event information reconfigured by the secondary reconfiguring unit in association with the client terminal; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the event information stored in the event information storing unit.

6. The information collecting system according to claim 5, further comprising a display control unit that causes the client terminal to display a list of various supporting information defined in the dictionary, and to display a screen to transmit the various supporting information selected through the list.

7. The information collecting system according to claim 1, wherein the database is a server opened to a public over the Internet.

8. An information collecting system which includes a dictionary managing device, a plurality of secondary managing devices, a plurality of secondary reconfiguring devices, and a plurality of primary reconfiguring devices, and which is connected to, via a network, a plurality of data generating devices that generate job-site data and a plurality of client terminals that request collection of event information, the dictionary managing device comprising:

a managing unit that stores a dictionary recording all models of all event information derived from the job-site data output by all data generating devices;

a dictionary generating unit that adds, for each domain managing device, a reference mask to some models in the dictionary stored in the managing unit in order to generate an individual dictionary for each domain managing device; and

a transmitting unit that distributes the corresponding dictionary added with the reference mask to the domain managing device, the domain managing device comprising;

a display control unit that causes the predetermined client terminal to display the model which is included in the distributed dictionary and which is not hidden by the reference mask; and

causing the client terminal to generate collection condition information for the event information based on the displayed model, the primary reconfiguring unit comprising;

a searching unit that searches the supporting information from a database in accordance with the model included in the dictionary and a primary reconfiguring unit that adds the searched supporting information to the job-site data to reconfigure the event information; and

searching other kinds of supporting information with search keys that are the job-site data and the supporting information included in the event information reconfigured by the primary reconfiguring unit, and successively adding the successively searched supporting information to the event information, the secondary reconfiguring unit comprising;

a secondary reconfiguring unit that extracts some of information from the event information reconfigured by the primary reconfiguring unit in accordance with the collection condition information to generate newly reconfigured event information; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the event information reconfigured by the secondary reconfiguring unit to the client terminal.

9. The information collecting system according to claim 8, wherein

the dictionary generating unit adds the reference mask to the different model depending on the domain managing device to generate an individual dictionary for each domain managing device, and

the client terminal generates the collection condition information based on the distributed individual dictionary received by the predetermined domain managing device.

10. The information collecting system according to claim 8, wherein

the dictionary generating unit of the dictionary managing device further adds a managing mask to some of the models in the individual dictionary for each domain managing device, and

the domain managing device includes an input unit, and a dictionary correcting unit that corrects the model in the distributed individual dictionary in response to an operation given from the input unit, and

the dictionary correcting unit receives an operation given through the input unit that is a correction of only the model not added with the managing mask.

11. The information collecting system according to claim 10, wherein the dictionary generating unit adds the managing mask to the different model depending on the domain managing device to generate an individual dictionary for each domain managing device.

12. An information collecting system to enable selective domain management of a performance at a job-site by a plurality of managing devices that can respond to error information and status information which includes a dictionary managing device, a plurality of secondary managing devices, a plurality of secondary reconfiguring devices, and a plurality of primary reconfiguring devices, and which is connected to, via a network, a plurality of data generating devices that generate job-site data and a plurality of client terminals that request collection of event information, the dictionary managing device comprising:

a managing unit that stores a dictionary recording all models of all event information derived from the job-site data output by all data generating devices;

a dictionary generating unit that adds, for each performance domain managing device, a reference mask to some models in the dictionary stored in the managing unit in order to generate an individual dictionary for each domain managing device to execute a decision; and

a transmitting unit that distributes the corresponding dictionary added with the reference mask to the domain managing device, the domain managing device comprising;

a display control unit that causes a predetermined client terminal to display the model which is included in the distributed dictionary and which is not hidden by the reference mask and causing the client terminal to generate collection condition information for the event information based on the displayed model, the primary reconfiguring unit comprising;

a searching unit that searches the supporting information from a database in accordance with the model included in the dictionary and a primary reconfiguring unit that adds the searched supporting information to the job-site data to reconfigure the event information and searching other kinds of supporting information with search keys that are the job-site data and the supporting information included in the event information reconfigured by the primary reconfiguring unit, and successively adding the successively searched supporting information to the event information,

wherein the supporting information is background information that includes at least one piece of information respectively indicating an editing assist material which is necessary for editing the job-site data, a comparison target data to be compared with the job-site data, an analysis assist material which affects an analysis and an evaluation assist material which affects an evaluation on an analysis result, and

a secondary reconfiguring unit that extracts some of information from the event information reconfigured by the primary reconfiguring unit in accordance with the collection condition information to generate newly reconfigured event information; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the event information reconfigured by the secondary reconfiguring unit to the client terminal.

13. The information collecting system according to claim 12, wherein

the dictionary generating unit adds the reference mask to the different model depending on the domain managing device to generate an individual dictionary for each domain managing device, and

the client terminal generates the collection condition information based on the distributed individual dictionary received by the predetermined domain managing device.

14. The information collecting system according to claim 13, wherein

the dictionary generating unit of the dictionary managing device further adds a managing mask to some of the models in the individual dictionary for each domain managing device, and

the domain managing device includes an input unit, and a dictionary correcting unit that corrects the model in the distributed individual dictionary in response to an operation given from the input unit, and

the dictionary correcting unit receives an operation given through the input unit that is a correction of only the model not added with the managing mask.

15. The information collecting system according to claim 14, wherein the dictionary generating unit adds the managing mask to the different model depending on the domain managing device to generate an individual dictionary for each domain managing device.

16. The information collecting system according to claim 14, wherein

the job-site data is a characteristic in a fishbone diagram,

the background information is a factor in the fishbone diagram which includes the job-site data as the characteristic.