JP2003296527A - Business content report service system, business content delivery system and business content transmitting program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the working load for the content report of an executed business by a person on outside duty or the like. <P>SOLUTION: When the person on outside duty or the like performs a prescribed button operation showing business contents, a mobile terminal 10 registers the button state, time and position information thereof, and transmits them to a position information management system 18 at a prescribed timing. The position information management system 18 forms position history information based on the information from the mobile terminal 10, and provides it to a business daily report mail delivery system 22. The business daily report male delivery system 22 forms a daily report according to a preliminarily registered business daily report format based on the position history information (including hour, address, button state) acquired from the position history information, and transmits this daily report to a preliminarily designated prescribed address as business daily report mail by use of e-mail. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention uses a system for searching the position of a mobile terminal to provide a service content for providing a service for notifying the content of the work performed by a user (such as an outside worker) who holds the mobile terminal. The present invention relates to a notification service system, a business content distribution system, and a business content transmission program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, PHS (personal handyphon)
Location information to search the location of the terminal according to the request from the information processing device at a remote location by utilizing the small zone system in addition to the normal voice call by improving the wireless communication infrastructure of e system). A search system is used. For example, in a company such as a salesperson who has an outside worker, each outside worker can carry out a terminal device to search the current position of each outside worker by using a position information search system.

By the way, in general, employees of a company submit a daily report for reporting the contents of work performed on one day. In this daily report, for example, it is necessary to describe the content of the work and the time when the work was performed. In the case of an outside worker, the contents of the work and the time when the work is carried out may be sequentially recorded in a memo or the like, or may be memorized and stored on the night of the day or the morning of the next day.
A daily report is created by filling out a daily report form.

[0004]

As described above, in the prior art,
When an outside worker creates a daily report, the work contents must be recorded in sequence, which is troublesome and burdensome. Also, if it is just to remember it, it does not take time, but sometimes I forget it or ambiguous, and I can not create the daily report correctly.

Further, in the case of the conventional position information retrieval system, the current position and the search time can be sequentially recorded as a log for the outside worker who holds the terminal device, so that the burden of recording the work content is reduced. However, the work of creating a daily report using these information cannot be omitted.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and is a business content notification service system, a business content distribution system, which can reduce the work burden of reporting the content of the work to be performed by an outside worker. The purpose is to provide a business content transmission program.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided position information management means for acquiring, together with position information indicating the current position of a mobile terminal, status information indicating a predetermined work content designated in the mobile terminal, and the position information management means. An information creating means for creating information for the work content report in a predetermined format based on the position information and the status information acquired by the information managing means, and a work content report created by the information creating means. And a mail delivery means for transmitting the information of (1) to a predetermined destination using an electronic mail.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of the position information search system according to this embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the position information search system according to the present embodiment includes a mobile terminal 10, a base station 12, and a P station.
HS network 14, public network 16, location information management system 18,
Information processing device 20, business daily report mail distribution system 22,
And the management system 24. The position information management system 18, the information processing device 20, and the daily business report mail delivery system 22 constitute a service system. The service system is a daily report (business report) for reporting the contents of work performed by the outside worker holding the mobile terminal 10 to a company by operating a predetermined button indicating the contents of the work on the mobile terminal 10. It provides a daily report distribution service of creating content report information) and transmitting it to a predetermined destination using electronic mail. In this embodiment,
A small zone wireless communication system using a PHS (personal handyphone system) is used to detect the position information of an office worker who holds the mobile terminal 10, and based on the detected position and the information input by button operation. The case of creating a daily report will be described.

The mobile terminal 10 (PHS terminal) is the base station 1
Wireless communication with the wireless communication terminal 2 and position information indicating which base station 12 the communication area (zone) in which the user is currently located is associated with a specific button operation (in the present embodiment, the base station). (Represented by a combination of the electric field strength between the ID and the PHS network 14) is stored as a history, and the position information is extracted and the position information reply (5) according to the position information request (4) from the base station 12. It has the function of sending as. The mobile terminal 10 can also output the position information to the position information management system 18 regardless of the position information request (4). For example, it may be output when a predetermined button operation indicating the work content is performed or when a predetermined time is reached. The mobile terminal 10 according to the present embodiment reads a program recorded in a recording medium, for example, a computer whose operation is controlled by the program, a so-called PDA (personal digital ass).
Realized as a portable information device equipped with PHS wireless communication function called istant), a PHS terminal capable of general voice call, or a dedicated mobile terminal for location information search without voice call function. can do.
In the following description, the mobile terminal 10 will be described as a PHS terminal capable of general voice communication. In the mobile terminal 10,
As basic functions, numerical buttons 0 to 9 used for designating a telephone number of a communication partner and a plurality of function buttons (connect button, disconnect button, "*", "#", etc.) are provided. When using the daily report distribution service provided by the service system, the mobile terminal 10 uses a combination of preset numeric buttons and function buttons to
A button state (status) is stored as a history together with position information as state information indicating a predetermined work content, and a position information management system 18 (business daily report mail delivery system 22)
It is used to notify (see below for details).

The base station 12 performs radio communication with the mobile terminal 10, and identification information (base station ID) for identifying a unique base station is set in each base station 12, and the base station I is always present.
A signal for notifying D is transmitted (basic configuration of PHS). When the position information request (3) is received via the PHS network 14, the base station 12 transmits the position information request (4) to the mobile terminal 10 to be searched for the position information, and the position information request (3) is transmitted. When the position information reply (5) corresponding to the information request (4) is received, the position information reply (6) is transmitted to the PHS network 14.

The PHS network 14 integrates a plurality of base stations 12, and when the location information request (2) from the location information management system 18 is received via the public network 16,
The mobile terminal 10 which is the target of position information retrieval sends a position information request (3) to the base station 12 existing in the communication area, and a position information response (3) corresponding to the position information request (3) is sent. When 6) is received, the position information reply is sent to the position information management system 18 via the public network 16 (7)
To send. If the position information history is output from the mobile terminal 10 regardless of the position information request (3), the position information management system 18 is notified in the same manner as when the position information response (6) is received. And send the location information.

The public network 16 is a communication path for connecting the PHS network 14 and the position information management system 18, and for example, an ISDN network is used.

The position information management system 18 is used for the mobile terminal 1
A system for providing a position information search service for performing a position search of 0, and a terminal position information request (1) requesting acquisition of position information regarding a predetermined mobile terminal 10 from an information processing device 20 is received. In this case, a position information request (2) is sent to the mobile terminal 10 to be searched,
When the position information response (7) corresponding to the position information request (2) is received, the position (latitude / longitude) of the mobile terminal 10 is based on the position information history included in the position information response (7). , And sends the result to the information processing device 20 as a terminal position information reply (8). In addition, the location information management system 1
In order to provide the daily report delivery service, 8 provides the daily business report mail delivery system 22 with the position history information (9) for each mobile terminal 10 at a predetermined timing. Details of the position history information will be described later (FIG. 3).

The information processing device 20 is composed of a personal computer or the like, and is for receiving the position information retrieval service provided by the position information management system 18, and for requesting position information for a predetermined mobile terminal 10. The terminal location information request (1) is sent to the location information management system 18 via ISDN or the Internet, and the terminal location information reply (8) according to the terminal location information request (1) is received. Then, the mobile terminal 1 based on the position information included in this terminal position information reply (8)
A function for displaying 0 position (for example, display of position and route on map, list display of history of position information, etc.) is provided. Further, the information processing device 20 is illustrated as being for receiving the provision of the daily report distribution service. The information processing device 20 can receive the business daily report file (information for business content report in a predetermined format) created in the business daily report format from the business daily report mail distribution system 22 by using an electronic mail. Further, the information processing apparatus 20 updates various information (business daily report mail management table, status definition table (details will be described later)) managed by the business daily report mail distribution system 22 to provide the daily report distribution service. It is shown as an example. In the present embodiment, the information processing device 20 is
A WWW (World Wide Web) browser is provided, and it is possible to access a Web page for information update published by the management system 24 on the Internet (WWW). Although FIG. 1 illustrates that the information processing device 20 can use the position information search service and the daily report distribution service, the information processing device provided with each service is different. That is,
It is assumed that there is an information processing device that uses the position information search service, an information processing device that receives a daily business report mail, and an information processing device that requests customization.

The daily business report mail delivery system 22 includes the mobile terminal 10 acquired by the location information management system 18.
The position history information (9) for each is acquired, a business daily report is created based on this, and a business daily report creation / transmission process for transmitting the business daily report file to a predetermined destination by using e-mail is executed ( Details will be described later (FIG. 7)). Further, the business daily report mail distribution system 22 executes a customization process for updating various information managed to provide the daily report distribution service based on the information acquired by the management system 24 (details will be described later). (Fig. 9)).

The management system 24 accepts a customization request (11) for updating various information managed by the business daily report mail distribution system 22 to provide a daily report distribution service, and various information targeted for customization processing. Is obtained from, for example, the Internet (WW
W) Publish a web page for information update on
It is assumed that the customization request and various information to be changed are acquired through page b. The management system 24
When the customization request (11) is received, the customization request (1
2) Also, various information to be changed is provided to prompt execution of customization processing.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the position information management system 18 shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the position information management system 18 includes a CPU 30, a memory 32, a terminal database 34, a base station database 35, a map database 36, a communication unit 38, a storage device 39, and an input device (not shown). It is configured to have various functions such as a display device.

The CPU 30 controls the entire system and implements various functions by executing it based on the programs and data stored in the memory 32. In this embodiment, by executing the location information service program 32b, processing for the daily report distribution service and the location information search service is executed. The CPU 30 receives the terminal location information request from the information processing apparatus 20 by executing the location information communication program 32c, and also transmits the terminal location information reply to the terminal location information request to the information processing apparatus 20. By controlling communication and executing the position information calculation program 32d, the function of calculating the position (latitude / longitude, address) based on the history of the acquired position information is realized. Further, the CPU 30 causes the information processing device 2 to perform the daily report distribution service at a predetermined timing.
Received the terminal location information reply (location information history) from 0, and calculated results (location (latitude / longitude), address, etc.) based on the location information for the daily business report mail distribution system 22.
Is provided as position history information (9).

The memory 32 is a read-only or readable / writable memory device for the CPU 30, and stores programs and data. In the present embodiment, a position information service program 32b is stored as necessary, in addition to the control program 32a for controlling the basic functions of the position information management system 18. The position information service program 32b includes programs such as a position information communication program 32c and a position information calculation program 32d. Further, the memory 32 stores the position history information storage area for storing the position history information 32e acquired from the mobile terminal 10, and the mobile terminal 1 calculated based on the history of the position information.
An area for storing information such as position 0 (latitude / longitude) and address is secured. In the terminal database 34, information about the mobile terminal 10 that is the target of position information search is registered.

In the base station database 35, information about the base station 12 installed in the area where the location information is searched is registered to calculate the location (latitude / longitude) of the mobile terminal 10 based on the location information. Each base station 1
For 2, the base station ID and information indicating the position (latitude / longitude or address) of each base station are stored.

The map database 36 includes characteristic positions represented on the map, such as roads (intersections), public facilities,
The positions of buildings, factories, parks, etc. and the addresses corresponding to them are stored in association with each other. Communication unit 3
8 performs communication via ISDN, leased line (Internet), or the like.

The storage device 39 stores various programs (control program 32a, position information service program 32b).
Etc.) and data (positional information 32e obtained based on the positional information)
Etc.) are stored in the device. The program recorded on the recording medium handled in the storage device 39 is read out to the memory 32 as necessary and executed to realize various functions.

FIG. 3 shows details of the position history information 32e held in the position information management system 18. As shown in FIG. 3, the position history information 32e includes
Each information indicating (a) base station ID, (b) time, (c) address, (e) latitude / longitude, and (f) button state is stored in association with each other. Business Daily Email Delivery System 22
For at least (b) time, (c) address,
(F) It is assumed that each piece of button state information is provided as position history information (9).

The mobile terminal 10 is constantly transmitted from the base station 12 and is unique in identification information (base station I).
When D) is received and a predetermined button operation indicating the work content is performed, the history information of the position information is sequentially stored in time series in association with the time information at that time. In addition,
The mobile terminal 10 has three or more (preferably 3 to 7) base station IDs for the base stations 12 and an electric field at the time of wireless communication between the respective base stations 12 so that the position (latitude / longitude) can be accurately calculated. The strength is stored (the position information is represented by a set of electric field strength between the base station ID and the base station 12). More preferably, among the three or more base stations 12, the top 3 with the highest electric field strength
It is desirable to store base station IDs and electric field strengths for the above-mentioned several base stations 12. On the other hand, the position information management system 18 transmits the position information request (2) to the mobile terminal 10 at the time when the work of the day is completed, so that the position information stored in the mobile terminal 10 can be stored. Get history. The position information management system 18 refers to the base station database 35 based on the history of the position information acquired from the mobile terminal 10, and determines the position (latitude / longitude) of the mobile terminal 10 based on the base station ID and the electric field strength. Calculate and determine the address corresponding to the position by referring to the map database 36,
The location history information 32e is stored in association with the base station ID, time, and button status information. The position information management system 18 not only acquires the position information from the mobile terminal 10 at the time when the work of the day is completed, but also when there is a terminal position information request (1) from the information processing device 20, It can also be acquired when it is transmitted from the mobile terminal 10 without depending on the position information request (when a predetermined button operation is performed on the mobile terminal 10 or when a predetermined time is reached).

FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the business daily report mail distribution system 22 shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, the business daily report mail delivery system 22 includes a CPU 40,
It has a memory 42, a storage device 44, and a communication unit 46.

The CPU 40 controls the entire system and realizes various functions by executing it based on the programs and data stored in the memory 42. In the present embodiment, the business daily report creation / transmission program 42b executes the business daily report creation / transmission process for realizing the daily report delivery service, and the customization processing program 42
By c, customization processing for updating the contents of the daily report distribution service is executed in response to a request from the customer.

The memory 42 is a read-only or readable / writable memory device for the CPU 40, and stores programs and data. In the present embodiment, in addition to the control program 42a for controlling the basic functions of the daily business report mail delivery system 22, a daily business report creation / transmission program 42b and a customization processing program 42c are stored. The memory 42 stores a storage device 44 when executing the daily work report transmission process or the customization process.
Necessary data is read from and stored in.

The storage device 44 is a device for storing various programs and data. The program recorded on the recording medium handled in the storage device 44 is read out to the memory 42 as necessary and executed to realize various functions. The data recorded in the storage device 44 includes a daily business report mail management table 44a (details are shown in FIG. 5),
A status definition table 44b (details are shown in FIG. 6),
The daily work report format file 44c and the position history information 44d acquired from the position information management system 18 are included.

The communication unit 46 executes communication for transmitting and receiving data with the position information management system 18 and the management system 24, as well as communication for transmitting electronic mail to the information processing device 20 and the like.

FIG. 5 shows a business daily report mail distribution system 22.
Business daily report mail management table 44a managed in
Shows the details of. Business daily report mail management table 44
In a, as shown in FIG. 5, a plurality of groups (for example,
For each of the group A, the group B, ..., A file indicating the daily work report format used in the group is registered. This file is, for example, a template file that can be used by a predetermined application program. Also, the terminal number assigned to each mobile terminal 10 used in the group, the name of the out-of-office person who holds the mobile terminal 10 indicated by the terminal number, the daily work report for this out-worker (business daily report mail )
Each piece of information of the business daily report mail transmission destination address indicating the destination when transmitting is registered in association with the terminal number. The information managed by the business Japan mail management table 44a is
It is registered according to the customization request accepted by the management system 24, and can be arbitrarily changed by the customization process.

FIG. 6 shows a business daily report mail distribution system 22.
The details of the status definition table 44b managed in FIG. The status definition table 44b contains
As shown in FIG. 6, the daily business report mail management table 44a
For each of the plurality of groups registered in, the status definition indicating what the button operation (button state) on the mobile terminal 10 in the group represents in the work content (status) is registered. For example, in the group A, when the button operation including the button “1” of the mobile terminal 10 is performed, “business start” is displayed. The status definition managed by the business daily report mail delivery system 22 is similar to that of the business daily report mail management table 44a.
It is registered according to the customization request accepted by the management system 24, and can be arbitrarily changed by the customization process.

Next, the operation of the service system that provides the daily report distribution service in this embodiment will be described. In FIG. 10, it is assumed that an outside worker who belongs to a certain company holds the mobile terminal 10 and performs business while visiting various places. A person in charge of this company tells the daily work email delivery system 22 a daily work report file showing a daily work report format used by this company, a terminal number of the mobile terminal 10 used by each of a plurality of outside workers, Mobile terminal 1
The names (names to be posted in the daily report) of each outside worker who holds 0 and the transmission destination of the daily business report (addresses of the daily business report mail) are registered. Business Daily Email Delivery System 22
Registers each piece of information for the group indicating this company in the business daily report mail management table 44a (see FIG. 5). Further, it is assumed that the status definition for the button operation on the mobile terminal 10 is similarly registered (see FIG. 6).

The working person holding the mobile terminal 10 registers the information described in the daily report by operating a predetermined button when there is a change in the implementation status of the work to be described in the daily report. You can For example, in the case of an outside worker who belongs to a company registered as group A, for example, "*"
By performing a button operation with a combination of a plurality of buttons such as “1” and “*”, the status definition table 44b
It is possible to register "start work" for the button "1" registered in. At this time, the button state (in this case, the button state indicates “1”), the time when the button operation is performed, and the base station ID (and the electric field strength) acquired from the base station 12 at the current position. Are registered in association with each other. Hereinafter, similarly, when there is a change in the implementation status of the work to be described in the daily report, each information is registered as a history in a time series by performing a predetermined button operation. The information registered in the mobile terminal 10 is stored in the position information management system 18 by some methods as described above.
Shall be sent to. The location information management system 18 acquires a history of location information from the mobile terminal 10,
The address and latitude / longitude information is calculated, and the storage device 44
The location history information 44d is stored in the storage unit and is provided as location history information to the daily business report mail delivery system 22 at a predetermined timing.

Hereinafter, the business daily report mail distribution system 22
Executes a business daily report creation process according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 7 to create a daily report based on the position history information, and sends it as a business daily report mail to a predetermined destination.

The daily business report mail delivery system 22 monitors whether the daily business report creation time set for each group has come (step A1). When the business daily report creation time comes, the business daily report mail delivery system 22 determines the group for which the daily report is created (step A2),
Data (terminal number, name, business daily report mail destination address) for one terminal number in the corresponding group is acquired from the business daily report mail management table 44a (step A3).

The daily business report mail delivery system 22 acquires the position history information corresponding to the acquired terminal number (step A4). As shown in FIG. 3, button position information is registered in the position history information, and the status (work content) corresponding to the button status is determined based on the status definition table 44b (step A5).

The daily business report mail delivery system 22 acquires a file indicating the daily business report format of the group set in the daily business report mail management table 44a, and the file is acquired from the daily business report mail management table 44a for the daily business report format. Name, time and address acquired from position history information, status corresponding to the button state determined by the status definition table 44b (content of work)
Each is assigned to a predetermined position to create a daily work report file (step A6).

FIG. 8 shows an example of the daily work report format. The daily business report format shown in FIG.
An example is shown in which a list format is created by associating the time when the button state information is acquired, the status (business content) indicated by the button state, and the address information. See also FIG.
The work daily report format shown in (b) shows an example in which information on action time, work content, and place is associated with each other and assigned in accordance with the action time in a time series representing working hours.

The daily business report mail delivery system 22 creates an electronic mail for daily report notification to the address of the daily business report mail transmission destination corresponding to the terminal number for which the daily report is created, and the daily business report file is attached to this electronic mail. Is set (step A7) and is temporarily stored in the area for storing the transmitted mail (step A8) (the electronic mail to which the business daily report file is attached is referred to as a business daily report mail).

If the creation of the daily report corresponding to all the terminal numbers belonging to the target group has not been completed (step A9), the business daily report mail delivery system 22 returns to the process of step A3 and performs the same process as described above. A business daily report file is created based on the position history information, and a business daily report mail is created and saved (steps A3 to A8).

After the creation of the daily report corresponding to all the terminal numbers is completed, the time of transmission of the daily business report mail preset for this group, for example, the predetermined time at night (0 am) that does not affect the business of the company (Step A10), the daily business report mail delivery system 22 sends a daily business report mail for each terminal number in the temporarily stored group to each address (step A11).

In this way, the information (position history information) to be included in the daily report is registered by the outside worker operating the buttons on the mobile terminal 10, and the business daily report mail delivery system is based on this information. A daily report is created in the business daily report format previously registered in 22 and can be acquired as a business daily report mail. Therefore, the outside worker can obtain the daily report only by operating a predetermined button on the mobile terminal 10, and it is not necessary to record or memorize the work contents of one day in a memo or the like, which significantly reduces the burden. To be done. Further, since the daily report acquired by the daily business report email is obtained in a predetermined business daily report format (for example, the format of the daily report used by the company), the outside worker does nothing to create the daily report. No need.

Next, the customization process will be described. In the service system, the management system 24 receives the information necessary for updating the daily business report mail management table 44a together with the customization request through the WWW through the management system 24 and the management Web page published on the Internet by the management system 24, The daily work email delivery system 22 updates the daily work email management table 44a based on the received information.

Here, an example of a Web page for accepting a customization request by the management system 24 in FIG. 9 will be described. FIG. 9A shows an example of a Web page for accepting a customization request. This Web page is provided with a group name registered in the daily business report mail management table 44a to be customized and an input field for entering a password preset for this group.
In FIG. 9, when the correct group name registered in the daily business report mail management table 44a and the password set for this group are input, the management system 2
4 provides a Web page for selecting a customization target as shown in FIG. 9 (b). In the Web page for selecting this customization target, "Terminal button status definition""Business daily report format""Business daily report name"
A selection item of "Delivery of daily work report" is prepared, and can be arbitrarily selected.

The "terminal button status definition" is for changing the status (work content) set for the button state in this group registered in the status definition table 44b. When "Terminal button status definition" is selected, the management system 24
Provides a Web page provided with a button to be changed and an item for registering the content of the status for this button, as shown in FIG. 9C. FIG. 9 (c)
In the Web page shown in, the terminal button to be changed and the work content for the button can be arbitrarily registered.

When the "business daily report format" is selected, the management system 24 opens a Web page having an item for inputting a file name indicating the business daily report format as shown in FIG. 9 (d). provide. In this item, the file name of the file indicating the daily work report format stored in the storage device of the information processing device is input. It is assumed that the specified file in FIG. 9 is uploaded from the information processing device to the management system 24.

If "Business Daily Report Name" is selected,
The management system 24 uses the terminal number of the mobile terminal 10 and the mobile terminal 10 indicated by this terminal number as shown in FIG.
A web page provided with an item for inputting the name of an employee who holds the information. FIG. 9 shows the mobile terminal 1.
When the outside worker who holds 0 is changed, the name of the outside worker who newly becomes the holder can be arbitrarily registered in association with the terminal number.

When "business daily report destination" is selected, the management system 24 displays the terminal number of the mobile terminal 10 and a mail address indicating the destination of this business daily report mail as shown in FIG. 9 (f). A web page provided with an item for inputting. In FIG. 9, when the destination to which the daily business report mail created based on the position information acquired from the mobile terminal 10 indicated by the terminal number is changed, the changed mail address can be arbitrarily registered. . It is assumed that a plurality of business daily report mail transmission destination addresses can be registered, and addition of transmission destination addresses and deletion of previously registered mail addresses can be specified on this Web page.

It is assumed that a plurality of customization targets can be selected and the information to be modified can be entered for each of them.

The management system 24 is used for each Web shown in FIG.
When various kinds of information to be changed in the customization process are input through the page and the customization process execution request (11) is acquired, the business daily report mail delivery system 22 is notified of the customization request (12) and the customization process is executed. Urge.

The business daily report mail delivery system 22 is shown in FIG.
According to the flowchart shown in FIG. 0, the customization processing is executed to update the information registered in the daily business report mail management table 44a.

First, the business daily report mail distribution system 22
Receives the customization request (12) (step B1), the information acquired from the management system 24 (see FIG. 9).
The group to be customized is determined based on the information input in (a) (step B2).

Next, the daily business report mail delivery system 22
Determines the target of the customization process based on the information (information selected in FIG. 9B) acquired from the management system 24 (step B3).

In FIG. 9, when "Terminal button status definition" is selected, the daily business report mail delivery system 22
Acquires the new status content for the button input through the Web page shown in FIG. 9C (step B4), and displays the status (business content) for the button status of the target group in the status definition table 44b. Update (step B5).

When the “business daily report format” is selected, the business daily report mail delivery system 22 acquires a file indicating the business daily report format uploaded to the management system 24 and sets it as the target of the business daily report mail management table. The file for the group is updated (step B9).

If "business daily report name" is selected, the business daily report mail delivery system 22 acquires a new name for the specified specific terminal number (step B
7) Update the name of the corresponding terminal in the target group in the daily business report mail management table (step B9).

Further, if the "business daily report destination" is selected, the business daily report mail delivery system 22 acquires a new business daily report mail transmission address for the specified specific terminal number (step B8), and the business daily report is sent. The business daily report mail destination address for the corresponding terminal in the mail management table is updated (step B9). In addition, if deletion of the previously registered address is specified,
Register the newly entered address after deleting the currently registered business daily report email destination address.

When the updating of the daily business report mail management table 44a or the status definition table 44b for all the various pieces of information input as customization targets is completed (step B10), the customization process ends.

In this way, the daily business report mail management table 44 registered in the daily business report mail delivery system 22.
Since a and the information registered in the status definition table 44b can be arbitrarily changed, even if there is a change in the creation of the daily report, it can be easily dealt with. Further, since each information can be registered and changed for each group, it is possible to flexibly respond to the request of each group.

In the above description, the management system 24 acquires various pieces of information to be changed through the Web page for the customization processing by the business daily report mail delivery system 22, but other means. The various types of information may be acquired to perform the customization process. For example, the business daily report mail delivery system 22 may use electronic mail to acquire various information to be changed or directly input various information via an input device (not shown).

Further, although the daily business report file is created and transmitted using electronic mail, the content of the daily business report file may be transmitted by facsimile (FAX). In this case, it is assumed that the business daily report mail management table 44a is registered with the telephone number indicating the destination of the FAX, and the FAX transmission is performed based on this telephone number.

Although the daily business report file is described as being transmitted only to a specific destination, by registering a plurality of destinations for one terminal number in the daily business report mail management table 44a, Of course, it is also possible to simultaneously transmit to a plurality of destinations.

Although the daily business report file is transmitted by using electronic mail (or by FAX), the contents of the daily business report file may be provided by using WWW. In this case, for example, the management system 24 acquires the business daily report file from the business daily report mail distribution system 22 and converts it into a format that can be posted on a Web page (for example, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)).
It is converted to the description by) and can be browsed through the Internet. For example, a company administrator accesses a web page for browsing the daily report from the information processing device,
When browsing is requested along with designation of terminal number or name, the contents of daily report for the corresponding outside worker are provided. It should be noted that the access to the web page for browsing the daily report is restricted by setting an ID (identification information), a password, etc. for an administrator or the like.

The contents of the business daily report file are supposed to be created in the final business daily report format as shown in FIG. 8, but a general-purpose data format such as CS
Information such as time, status (business content), and address can be described in V (Comma Separated Value) format.

In the system configuration described above, the PHS
Network 14 (base station 12) and mobile terminal 10 which is a PHS terminal
Although the position detection is performed by and, the mobile terminal 1
The position of 0 may be acquired by another system configuration. For example, the mobile terminal 10 may have a GPS (Global Pos)
itioning system), the position information detected by this position detection function may be transmitted to the position information management system 18 together with the button state.

In the above description, the daily report is created and transmitted. However, the daily report is not limited to the daily report.
Alternatively, information for reporting other work contents, for example, a monthly report may be created and transmitted on a predetermined day (first day of the next month or the like).

Further, in the above-mentioned explanation, the address is described in the daily report, but the map database 36 of the daily business report mail delivery system 22 associates the place (company etc.) visited by the outside worker with the address. By registering with, the name of the place visited by the employee can be posted instead of the address.

Further, the method described in the above-mentioned embodiments is, as a program that can be executed by a computer, for example, a magnetic disk (flexible disk, hard disk, etc.), an optical disk (CD-ROM,
It can be provided to various devices by writing it on a recording medium such as a DVD) or a semiconductor memory. It is also possible to transmit the data via a communication medium and provide it to various devices. A computer that implements the present apparatus reads the program recorded on the recording medium or receives the program via a communication medium, and the operation is controlled by the program to execute the above-described processing.

The invention of the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be variously modified at the stage of implementation without departing from the scope of the invention. Furthermore, the embodiments include inventions at various stages, and various inventions can be extracted by appropriately combining a plurality of disclosed constituent elements. For example, if some constituent elements are deleted from all the constituent elements shown in the embodiment and the effect is obtained, the structure in which the constituent elements are deleted can be extracted as the invention.

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As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the position information of the mobile terminal and the status information indicating the predetermined work content are acquired, and the work in the predetermined format determined in advance based on these information. Since information for content report (daily report, etc.) is created and transmitted to a predetermined destination, the burden of creating daily report etc. can be greatly reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a position information search system according to this embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a position information management system 18 shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing details of position history information 32e held in a position information management system 18.

FIG. 4 is a business daily report mail delivery system 22 shown in FIG.
FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing details of a business daily report mail management table 44a managed in the business daily report mail delivery system 22.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing details of a status definition table 44b managed in the daily business report mail delivery system 22.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining a business daily report creation process by the business daily report mail delivery system 22.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a daily work report format.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a Web page for receiving a customization request by the management system 24.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining a customizing process by the business daily report mail delivery system 22.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Mobile terminal 12 ... Base station 14 ... PHS network 16 ... Public network 18 ... Location information management system 20 ... Information processing device 22 ... Business daily report mail delivery system 24 ... Management system 30, 40 ... CPU 32, 42 ... Memory 32b ... Location information service program 32c ... Position information communication program 32d ... Position information calculation program 32e ... Position history information 34 ... Terminal database 35 ... Base station database 36 ... Map database 38, 46 ... Communication unit 39, 44 ... Storage device 42b ... Business daily report creation and transmission program 42c ... Customization processing program 44a ... Business daily report mail management table 44b ... Status definition table 44c ... Business daily report format file 44d ... Position history information

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A position information management unit for acquiring, together with position information indicating a current position of the mobile terminal, status information indicating a predetermined work content designated in the mobile terminal, and a position acquired by the position information management unit. Based on the information and the status information, the information creating means for creating information for business content reporting in a predetermined format, and the information for business content reporting created by the information creating means are predetermined. A business content notification service system, comprising: an information transmitting unit for transmitting to a destination. 2. An information acquisition unit for acquiring status information indicating a predetermined work content notified from the mobile terminal together with position / time information indicating the current position and current time of the mobile terminal, and acquired by the information acquisition unit. Based on the position time information and the status information, the information creating means for creating information for the work content report in a predetermined format including each information indicating the position, the time, and the work content, and the information creating means. A business content distribution system comprising: a mail distribution means for transmitting the created business content report information to a predetermined destination using an electronic mail. 3. The information creating means comprises a changing means for arbitrarily changing a predetermined format for creating the work content report information for each of a plurality of mobile terminals. Business content distribution system. 4. The information acquisition unit acquires position time information and status information corresponding to the plurality of mobile terminals acquired by the information acquisition unit, and the change unit corresponds to each of the plurality of mobile terminals. And a format information changing unit that changes the format information stored by the format storing unit, wherein the information creating unit is acquired by the information acquiring unit. Depending on the mobile terminal corresponding to the position and time information and the status information, the predetermined format information stored in the format storage means is acquired,
4. The business content distribution system according to claim 3, wherein the business content report information is created based on this format information. 5. The changing means stores, for each of the plurality of mobile terminals, a state definition storing means for storing work contents corresponding to the state information acquired by the information creating means, and a state definition storing means for storing the business contents. And a change means for changing the corresponding business content, the information creating means uses the business content corresponding to the status information stored in the status definition storing means to report the business content. The business content distribution system according to claim 3, wherein the information is created. 6. The changing means is WWW (World Wide W
4. The change content in a predetermined format when the information for business content report is created is acquired through eb).
Business content distribution system described. 7. An information acquisition unit for acquiring, with a computer, position information indicating the current position and current time of a mobile terminal, and status information indicating a predetermined work content notified from the mobile terminal, and the information acquisition unit. Information creating means for creating work content report information in a predetermined format including position, time, and work content based on the position time information and status information acquired by A business content transmission program for causing the mail delivery means for transmitting the business content report information created by the creating means to an e-mail to a predetermined destination.