Job supporting apparatus, portable terminal and job supporting method

• US 9,262,733 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwamoto, Natsuko, Suzuki, Katsuyuki, Kawamoto, Shunichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Singh, Gurkanwaljit
• Application Number:
  US13/780,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20130238376A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,083 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 determine a location of a portable terminal as a function of an arrangement position associated with an access point device;

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;

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; and

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 first 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 first acceptance section to the portable terminal specified by the position specifying section.

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

a second 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 second acceptance section.

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

a first acquisition section configured to acquire a job schedule for a self-portable terminal containing a work position corresponding to a location of the self-portable terminal including the first 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, wherein the location of the self-portable terminal is determined as a function of an arrangement position associated with an access point device;

a second acquisition section configured to acquire a job schedule requested a substitution-doing by another portable terminal of the job schedule of a job schedule for the another portable terminal containing a work position corresponding to the location of the self-portable terminal from the job supporting apparatus; and

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

4. The portable terminal according to claim 3, 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.

5. A job supporting method, including:

managing, by a device comprising a processor, 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 a portable terminal carried by each person in charge;

determining, by the device, the position of the portable terminal as a function of an arrangement position associated with an access point device;

extracting, by the device, 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;

notifying, by the device, the extracted job schedule to the portable terminal associated with the extracted job schedule;

extracting, by the device, a job schedule containing a work position corresponding to the location of the portable terminal specified from the job schedules associated with another portable terminal different from the specified portable terminal;

notifying, by the device, the extracted job schedule to the another portable terminal associated with the job schedule extracted;

receiving, by the device, 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; and

requesting, by the device, the substitution-doing of the job schedule designation of which is received to the specified portable terminal.