Method of controlling information processing apparatus and information processing apparatus

• US 9,374,234 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2013
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sakamoto, Takuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Gillis, Brian J
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D
• Application Number:
  US13/771,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20130318161A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,217 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709203-205, 709223-226
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation

Abstract

A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes obtaining user information related to users of information terminals in a place, and obtaining, by a processor, change information related to a change in the user information.

Claims

1. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a processor, at two or more time points, sensing information transmitted from respective information terminals, the sensing information including a user identifier and place information, the user identifier identifying a user of each of the information terminals, the place information indicating a place at which each of the information terminals resides;

assigning a first data region to a first event held in a first place;

managing participant information including user identifiers that identify users of information terminals residing in the first place on a basis of the obtained sensing information;

assigning weighted values for the users of information terminals, wherein users of the information terminals who have stored first data in the first data region are assigned different weighted values compared to other users; and

determining whether the first event is ended on a basis of the weighted values.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

deleting the first data when the first event is determined to be ended.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

stopping the determining for a predetermined time period in response to a request received from a predetermined information terminal among the information terminals.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time, wherein the parameter is a difference between a first number of user identifiers included in current participant information and a second number of user identifiers included in previous participant information.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time, wherein the parameter is a ratio of a current number of user identifiers included in current participant information to a maximum number of user identifiers included in previous participant information.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time, wherein the change in the participant information is calculated only for information terminals that have stayed in the first place for a predetermined period of time or more.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a control program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

obtaining, at two or o e time points, sensing information transmitted from respective information terminals, the sensing information including a user identifier and place information, the user identifier identifying a user of each of the information terminals, the place information indicating a place at which each of the information terminals resides;

assigning a first data region to a first event held in a first place;

managing participant information including user identifiers that identify users of information terminals residing in the first place on a basis of the obtained sensing information;

assigning weighted values for the users of information terminals, wherein users of the information terminals who have stored first data in the first data region are assigned different weighted values compared to other users; and

determining whether the first event is ended on a basis of the weighted values.

8. The medium according to claim 7, wherein the process further comprises:

deleting the first data when the first event is determined to be ended.

9. The medium according to claim 7, wherein

the process further includes calculating a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time, and

the parameter is a difference between a first number of user identifiers included in current participant information and a second number of user identifiers included in previous participant information.

10. The medium according to claim 7, wherein

the process further includes calculating a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time, and

the parameter is a ratio of a current number of user identifiers included in current to a maximum number of user identifiers included in previous participant information.

11. The medium according to claim 7, wherein

the process further includes calculating a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time and

the change in the participant information is calculated only for information terminals that have stayed n the first place for a predetermined period of time or more.

12. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to;

obtain, at two or more time points, sensing information transmitted from respective information terminals, the sensing information including a user identifier and place information, the user identifier identifying a user of each of the information terminals, the place information indicating a place at which each of the information terminals resides,

assign a first data region to a first event held in a first place,

manage participant information including user identifiers that identify users of information terminals residing in the first place on a basis of the obtained sensing information,

assign weighted values for the users of information terminals, wherein users of the information terminals who have stored first data in the first data region are assigned different weighted values compared to other users, and

determine whether the first event is ended on a basis of the weighted values.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the process further includes:

deleting the first data when the first event is determined to be ended.

14. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to calculate a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time the parameter being a difference between a first number of user identifiers included in current participant information and a second number of user identifiers included in previous participant information.

15. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to calculate a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time, the parameter being a ratio of a current number of user identifiers included in current participant information to a maximum number of user identifiers included in previous participant information.

16. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to calculate a parameter representing a change in the participant information with time, the change in the participant information being calculated only for information terminals that have stayed in the first place for a predetermined period of time or more.