JP2002175392A - Time-limit management system and time-limit management method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a time-limit management system and a time-limit management method, capable of more managing time limits efficiently and surely. SOLUTION: This time-limit management system is provided with a communication system connecting a server and terminal equipment. The server is provided with case data 7, schedule data 10 and 11 and a control means 1. The control means 1 of the system is provided with management data setting means (1a, 8 and 9, etc.), for deciding a preliminary management date prior to a time limit data corresponding to the contents of the time limit on the basis of the case data 7, including information regarding the time-limit and determining an alarm management date counting from the preliminary management date, schedule reflection means (1b, 10 and 11, etc.), for reflecting the time-limit contents on the schedule data of the person in charge of the case and time-limit communication means (1c and 13, etc.), for communicating the alarm about the arrival of the time limit, to the preset communication destination of the person in charge.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION By connecting a terminal having a browsing application such as a browser to an Internet server as an external network, schedule data of individuals and groups arranged on the server and time limit management for incidents are managed. The present invention relates to a time limit management system and a time limit management method capable of performing time limit management from the terminal using a communication system while correlating case data including the time limit with the case data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Hitherto, a system for managing a personal schedule using a computer has been frequently used.
This type of schedule management system is configured such that a user inputs his / her own schedule from an input device on a corresponding day of a calendar for each day, week, or month displayed on a screen of a display device. In addition, in a conventional schedule management system of this type, at a date and time set in advance by a user on a schedule, the time is displayed on a screen, or a warning sound such as a bell sound is sounded. Some systems have a system that warns the user that the date and time has arrived.

Further, it is possible to connect the schedule management system of each individual as described above to the schedule management system of a group such as a company to which the individual belongs by using communication means, and to mutually manage the data. A schedule management system has also been developed.

[0004] Further, a case management system and a time limit management system for managing and processing various data such as a time limit and a history related to each business case have been frequently used.

[0005]

Conventionally, a system for handling schedule data of an individual or a group and a system for handling various data relating to an incident are completely separate systems and utilized independently of each other. However, there is no coordination or sharing of data, and there are many cases where individual systems have duplicate data.

[0006] Under such management of business information, even when the time limit information of a certain case can be used as personal schedule information as it is, the user inputs similar or identical information to personal schedule data. In addition, it is necessary to input the time limit into the case data, and the input operation is duplicated or complicated, resulting in a poor usability.

[0007] For example, if there is a time limit that states that "content X should be performed by YYYY / MM / DD (year / month / day) for incident A of the person in charge," YYYY / MM as schedule data
The schedule management system performs schedule management by inputting the contents X of the case A in the column of / DD, and further, as the data relating to the time limit in the case data of the case A, the contents X and the date of YYYY / MM / DD as the time limit Must be entered to manage the case deadline in the case deadline management system.

[0008] Further, when the contents of the time limit are completed, the person in charge of deletion deletes the data relating to the content X from the time limit data of the case a, and records the completed record of the content X as a history. In some cases, input work was required to leave the data.

As described above, inputting information on the same case to a plurality of data or complicating the input operation causes erroneous input or inconsistency between data.

Furthermore, in the above-mentioned conventional deadline management system, if the deadline for a certain case is warned, the time for responding to and processing the contents of the deadline is not taken into consideration, and the deadline response is not taken into consideration. In many cases, the user has to input the actual expiration date (hereinafter, the actual expiration date) and the date on which the user starts to handle and process the contents of the expiration date.

Specifically, in order to respond to the contents of the deadline, ten days before the actual deadline, for example, when advance preparations such as ordering materials and preparing documents need to be started, the schedule data of the user must be stored. There may be a case where the user inputs that fact as the actual expiration date and inputs that the preparation for the expiration of the expiration date is started 10 days before the actual expiration date.

[0012] In the flow of daily work, there are few scenes that vary greatly from person to person as a preparation period for coping with a possible deadline, and in many cases it can be set uniformly to some extent. .

[0013] Furthermore, even if it is simply a term, the term includes a term for the outside of a customer or a partner (hereinafter referred to as an outside term), or a paperwork inside a company or office. There is also a deadline. In order to respond to the external deadline, a deadline may occur internally. In such a case, schedule management is required in which the deadline is dually managed by an external deadline and an internal deadline, and a period for preparing for the response is calculated backward from the internal deadline. There are many cases.

[0014] In view of the above, the present invention enables more efficient time limit management by performing time limit management by linking schedule data and case data. A deadline management system that manages duplication by line, alerts the person in charge of deadline management and schedule management, and enables the use of communication means to alert individual communication destinations of the deadline. And to provide a deadline management method.

[0015]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a time limit management system according to the present invention comprises a server, a terminal provided with a browsing application capable of using the server system, a server and a terminal. And a communication system that connects the server and the server, wherein the server has a case data including information about a time limit, schedule data of a person in charge, and a time limit management system having control means for processing the data. The control means determines a preliminary management date before the date of the time limit corresponding to the content of the time limit based on the case data including the information on the time limit, and corresponds to the content of the time limit calculated from the preliminary management date. Means for setting the first day of the preparation period for the warning as a warning management date, and at least one of the deadline date, the preliminary management date, and the warning management date of the person in charge. To schedule data for one day,
A schedule reflecting means for reflecting the contents of the deadline, and from the warning management date until an input indicating that communication is not required,
A deadline communication means for transmitting a warning that the deadline has come to a communication destination of a preset person in charge at a preset frequency.

The deadline management method of the present invention is a deadline management method for processing and managing case data of a case that may have a deadline and schedule data of a person in charge on a server, based on the contents of the deadline of the case. The preliminary management date before the date of the deadline is determined, the first day of the preparation period corresponding to the content of the deadline calculated from the preliminary management date is obtained as the warning management date, and the person in charge on the schedule data on the schedule data is determined. The date of the deadline, at least one of the preliminary management date and the warning management date, reflects the content of the deadline, and the schedule data is made available to the terminal connected to the server, and from the warning management date. Until there is an input to the effect that communication is unnecessary, a warning of the expiration of the deadline is transmitted to a communication destination of a preset person in charge at a preset frequency.

According to the deadline management system and the deadline management method of the present invention, regarding a case where a deadline can occur, a preliminary management date and a warning management date corresponding to the deadline date are set in the deadline management system. The time limit is redundantly managed in a time series, and a warning of the time limit is transmitted to a preset communication destination of a person in charge at a preset frequency from the warning management date until an input indicating that communication is unnecessary is transmitted. And warns the person in charge of the deadline to warn them of the deadline response.In addition, the schedule data of the person in charge of at least one of the external deadline date, the preliminary management date and the warning management date is added to the schedule data. By reflecting the contents of the deadline, attention to the deadline can be prompted on the display screen of the schedule.

In addition, it is possible for a person in charge or the like to manage the time limit using the schedule data in the terminal connected to the server, thereby making the environment of the terminal extremely simple in terms of system. As long as connection to the server is possible, access from a remote place can be made possible by using communication means.

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The time limit management system of this embodiment is based on the premise that a terminal having a browsing application such as a browser of a user of the system is connected to the Internet as an external network. , One of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), especially ASP (Application Service Provide)
This is a system that should be provided by r).

First, a time limit management system according to the present embodiment will be described.

The deadline management system according to the present embodiment is arranged on a server on the Internet as described above, and the control means of the deadline management system performs a control based on case data including information on the external deadline. The preliminary management date before the date of the external deadline (hereinafter, the actual expiration date) according to the content of the deadline is determined with reference to the deadline management table, and the preliminary management date is calculated from the preliminary management date with reference to the warning management master. Means for determining a preparation period for responding to the contents of the deadline and setting the first day of the preparation period as a warning management date (hereinafter referred to as a management date setting means); Means for reflecting the content of the deadline in schedule data of at least one of the days (hereinafter, schedule reflecting means), and a message that communication is not required from the warning management date. Until there is input, at a frequency which is set in advance, the person in charge of pre-registered means for communicating a warning of the maturing to a communication destination (hereinafter, date communication means) and a.

More specifically, as shown in the hardware configuration diagram of the time limit management system in the embodiment of FIG. 1, the time limit management system is a main control unit that controls the entire system arranged on the server. The storage device 2 is connected to 1 (control means). The main controller 1 is connected to a controller 3 having a browsing application 3a such as a browser on a terminal via communication means such as the Internet. The controller 3 is connected to a pointing device such as a keyboard or a mouse. An input device 4 composed of a computer, a display device 5 as a data monitor, and an output device 6 for outputting data to various forms are connected.

The main control unit 1 includes an operating system (OS).
In the present embodiment, in addition to a control program such as a stem) and an internal memory 1d, a program (management date program) 1a that determines a preliminary management date and a warning management date based on each data of an incident including information on an external time limit. A program (schedule reflection program) 1b for reflecting the contents of the deadline in schedule data of at least one of the actual deadline date, the preliminary management date, and the warning management date of the person in charge; (Including a person involved in the case other than the relevant case) (a deadline communication program) 1c for communicating the warning of the expiration of the deadline. The programs 1a, 1b, 1c, etc. Reflecting means and time limit communication means are realized.

The recording device 2 on the server side manages case data 7, preliminary deadline management master 8, warning deadline management table 9, personal schedule data 10, group schedule data 11, customer master 12, person in charge master 13, and the like. Have been.

The case data 7 includes information such as case name, customer, case number, person in charge, deadline content, deadline, history, and commission date. The case data 7 is stored in a display application 5 such as a browser developed on the display device 5 of the terminal connected to the server via communication means such as the Internet by using the case management system arranged on the server. Is input from the input device 4 via the input screen of (1).

The preliminary expiration date management master 8 stores expiration date management data that is referred to when determining a preliminary expiration date before the actual expiration date according to the contents of the expiration date. Contains a term management preparation period corresponding to the content of the term calculated from the preliminary management date, and term management data referred to when determining the first day of the term management preparation period.

Further, the personal schedule data 10
Contains the schedule data of individuals who can be the person in charge of the case, and the group schedule data 11 contains the schedule data of the entire group such as the department or section to which the person in charge belongs.

The individual information included in the schedule data 10 and 11 is stored in a terminal connected to the server via a communication means such as the Internet by using a separate schedule management system provided in the server. In addition to being input from the input device 4 via a screen of a browsing application such as a browser developed on the display device 5 of the device, in the present invention, the input may be made by data transfer from a time limit management system as described later. Is configured.

In this embodiment, the recording device 2 on the server side further stores a customer master 12 in which the company name, code, contact information, and the like of the customer are registered, and a name, a person in charge code, an affiliated section, a mail address. And the like are registered.

Next, a method for managing a time limit using the time limit management system will be described with reference to a more detailed description of the configuration.

A user who uses the term management system logs in to the term management system using a browsing application such as a browser of a terminal connected to the server. At this time, the user is required to input an ID and a password, and the server performs authentication to determine whether the time limit management system can be used. At the stage of authentication, the processing of the time limit management system is started.

When the process is started, first, using the management date program 1a of the deadline management system, the management date setting means manages two managements, a preliminary management date and a warning management date, which are fundamental in the deadline management method. The day is calculated.

In the deadline management system of the present embodiment, the preliminary management date before the actual deadline is determined by referring to the preliminary deadline management master 8 based on the deadline content of the case data 7 and the actual deadline. The warning period management table 9 is referred to to determine a preparation period corresponding to the contents of the period calculated from the preliminary management date, and the first day of the preparation period is determined as the warning management date, and the internal memory in the main control unit 1 is determined. 1d temporarily.

The spare time limit management master 8 includes, for example,
Depending on the contents of the expiration date, a standard preliminary management period according to the contents of the expiration date is stored, such as "one week before the actual expiration date", "three days before the actual expiration date", "the same day as the actual expiration date". In advance,
By referring to the preliminary deadline management master 8 in correspondence with the deadline contents of the case data in which the deadline has occurred,
Calculate the preliminary management date for each case.

Similarly, a standard warning management period corresponding to the contents of the time limit is stored in the warning management master 9, and the time limit of each case is set in correspondence with the contents of the time limit of the case data 7 in which the time limit occurs. The first day of the response period is calculated as the warning management date.

The preliminary management period and the warning management period can be freely changed for each case on the development screen of the time limit management system, and can be flexibly handled for each case and each person in charge. And Also,
The preliminary management date is an internal expiration date corresponding to the actual expiration date. If there is no need to distinguish between internal and external, the preliminary management period is treated as 0 days, and the same as the actual expiration date. to manage. Similarly, the deadline corresponding period may be set to 0 days.

In the time limit management system of the present embodiment, each case is to be managed while the time limit is occurring, and the case data 7 includes an input indicating that the content corresponds to the content of the time limit. Only then do we end management of the time limit for the case. In this embodiment, the user accesses the case data 7 and inputs the date when the contents of the time limit are completed, thereby replacing the input corresponding to the contents of the time limit.

Then, on the initial screen after the start of the system processing, a list of data of cases in which a certain deadline will come within a period set in advance in the initial screen data from the date of login is displayed. . This initial screen display has a role of comprehensively and visually announcing the outline of the expiration of the deadline for each case data, and utilizes the case data 7, the preliminary deadline management master 8 and the warning management master 9, Internal memory 1 of the main control unit 1
The screen is displayed in accordance with the screen display data stored in d. In the screen display data, items to be displayed on the initial screen of the time limit management system, and for narrowing down the number of cases to be displayed, for example, `` display a period arriving from how many days after the login date '', or In this embodiment, a screen display condition such as “display the case related to the nearest 20 deadline from the login date” is included. In the present embodiment, the initial deadline for each case in the entire group is set in advance as the initial screen data. An incident arriving during the period and its deadline are specified, and the incident, the deadline, the deadline, the person in charge, and the progress of the incident are controlled to be displayed in a list. In addition, the deadline that has already expired on the login day is displayed in a different display color on the screen, and is controlled so that further attention can be drawn.

It should be noted that the initial screen may be controlled so as to display a list of deadlines relating to the logged-in individual. Further, with respect to the deadline displayed on the initial screen, it is also possible to control so as to display only a deadline included in a period set in advance in the initial screen data. If at least one deadline is included in the set period, control is performed so as to display the first day of the deadline preparation period for the case, the preliminary management date, and all the deadlines managed by the actual deadline date. Is also possible. Furthermore, in addition to setting the display of the initial screen so that other items such as the contents of the deadline and the actual expiration date are displayed in the list using the “case name” as a key item, for example, the “expiration date” as a key item It is also possible to control to display other items such as case name, deadline contents, progress status, etc. in a list.

Then, from the initial screen, a display area for displaying the main menu, which is arranged in the display screen of the list of the expiration date of the group, is selected by clicking or the like, and the next area is selected. The processing is controlled so that the processing can be further selected from options such as “schedule display”, “case display”, and “logoff” displayed on the display screen of the main menu.

In the deadline management system of this embodiment, the deadline management is performed by reflecting the management date obtained by the management date program 1a in the next schedule reflecting means and deadline communication means as described above.

First, a description will be given of deadline management in which data relating to a deadline in the incident data 7 is reflected in schedule data by the schedule reflecting means using the schedule reflecting program 1b.

In the time limit management system of the present invention, when a user logs in, the schedule reflection program 1b of the main control unit 1 uses the schedule data 7 to determine the actual time limit from the case data 7 for an external time limit. With reference to the preliminary management date and the warning management date stored in the internal memory 1d of the main controller 1, at least one of these deadlines for which data transfer to the schedule data has been set in advance is set as the deadline. With reference to the person in charge of the case data 7 having the above, the content of the deadline is reflected on the corresponding date of the personal schedule data 9a of the person in charge. Specifically, when the processing of the deadline management system is started, the case where an external deadline has occurred, that is, the corresponding date column of the schedule of the person in charge of the case where the input indicating that the deadline response has been completed has not yet been made Then, information such as the case number and the contents of the time limit for specifying the case is controlled to be transmitted.

When the person in charge accesses the schedule data, to which the information has been transmitted, from a browsing application such as a browser of a terminal, the information about the time limit of the case in question is stored in the schedule without waiting for the person in charge. The information can be automatically displayed in the corresponding date column.

In the deadline management system, it is possible to select a display area of “schedule display” on the main menu screen by clicking or the like and perform the operation from the schedule display screen of the deadline management system. Access to the schedule data can also be performed by displaying it on the display screen of the terminal device directly from a separate schedule management system.

The person in charge of the case is not limited to one person and is not limited to an individual. That is, it is also possible to set so that the deadline of the same case is reflected in the schedule of many people. In that case, the person in charge means a person involved, including the person in charge of the case.

In the deadline management system of the present embodiment, the group schedule data 11 and the individual schedule data 10 to which the information on the deadline of the charge case is transmitted are displayed as a list on the schedule data display screen. Is controlled. The schedule data is processed separately from the schedule data transferred in the time limit management system (hereinafter, transfer data) and the schedule data input by other individuals, and the schedule data is clearly displayed on the screen. Is controlled to be displayed. With regard to schedule data input by an individual from the schedule management system, access to the personal schedule data is controlled by managing the authority to determine whether to display or hide the data on the screen and the authority to input / delete data in the person in charge master 13. It is controlled so that it is given only to authorized persons. on the other hand,
As described above, the schedule data transferred in the time limit management system is displayed uniformly until input indicating that the content of the time limit has been completed, and can be referred to by anyone other than the person of the schedule. .

Further, the deadline management system according to the present embodiment extracts from the data included in the case data 7 by selecting the case display area in the schedule list display screen by clicking or the like. It is also possible to display the obtained information as a detailed display screen on the display screen of the terminal. On this detailed screen, it is possible to browse information that is not displayed on the schedule list screen. In particular, regarding the progress status, the “not started”, “ By selecting a display area such as "in process" or "pending" by clicking or the like, the selected progress status is controlled to be displayed on the screen. Further, when the content of the time limit is completed, in the present embodiment, the input screen relating to the time limit of the case data 7 is selected by selecting the display area of “to case data” arranged in the detail display screen by clicking or the like. Is displayed, and as described above, the date corresponding to the content of the time limit is input. As a result, "completed" is displayed for the case on the schedule screen, and the case is excluded from the target of time limit management. in this way,
With regard to excluding the case from the subject of the time limit management, by carefully requesting the operation of selecting the screen display, security is ensured with caution.

The input of the information to the case data 7 can be directly displayed on a display screen of the terminal from a separate case management system, and the data can be input from an input device.

Also, even if the actual expiration date has passed, if there is no input indicating that the expiration date has been completed, the display color of the screen is changed in the schedule list displayed on the browser of the terminal. As a result, it is possible to display a case in which the deadline has been overdue and call attention to the case.

The display screen of the schedule list includes a display area of a “bulletin board” for displaying a bulletin board,
A display area for “to individual schedule” for displaying a designated individual's schedule and a display area for “to main menu” for displaying a main menu are arranged.

Next, a description will be given of time limit management in which data on the time limit is communicated to the communication destination designated in advance by the person in charge by the time limit communication means using the time limit communication program 1c.

In the time limit management system of the present invention, when the user logs in, the time limit communication program 1c of the main control unit 1 uses the internal memory of the main control unit 1 to determine that an external time limit has occurred. Reference is made to the warning management date stored in 1d, and the case where the day of login is after the warning management date and there is no input indicating that communication is not required is specified. Then, the deadline for the case is sent as an e-mail to a preset communication destination of the person in charge.

That is, when the person in charge receives the e-mail, a warning notice of the expiration date is distributed.

The information transmitted by the e-mail shall include at least the accession number for specifying the case, the contents of the deadline, the preliminary management date, or the deadline date.

The input to the effect that the communication is not necessary can be made by inputting the date when the response to the case was completed into the case data 7 as described above, or by entering the case data 7 for each case. Is selected by clicking on the display area of “communication unnecessary” arranged in the display screen of FIG. Further, the communication destination of the person in charge is determined by referring to a mail address registered in the person in charge master 13 in advance. As the communication contents, for example, items that can specify the case and the time limit, such as the case name, the contents of the time limit, the actual deadline date, and the like are set freely. In addition, the frequency at which the e-mail is distributed can be set in detail in the time limit communication program 1c, such as "every time the user logs in to the system" or "once a day during system startup". And

As described above, from the warning management date until the input indicating that communication is not required, the time limit communication program 1
The e-mail is distributed at a frequency set in advance in c, so that the person in charge can be alerted.

In this embodiment, the term management is performed by a single log-in process in which the management date setting means calculates a preliminary management date and a warning management date, and the schedule reflection means converts the two management dates into schedule data. To reflect,
All the processes of displaying the schedule list and transmitting the e-mail warning the deadline to the person in charge of the case by the deadline communication means are performed. The contents related to the case displayed in the time limit management system are updated every time the user logs in to the time limit management system.
After the user obtains the necessary information on the time limit, the user can log out by selecting an “end” display area of the main menu at an appropriate place by clicking or the like.

As described above, according to the deadline management system and the deadline management method of the present embodiment, based on the data on the occurrence of the deadline and the completion of the deadline input to the case data 7, the backup using the management date program 1 a is performed. The management date and the warning management date are set, the time limit is duplicated and managed in a time series, the deadline date, the preliminary management date, and the warning management date are reflected in the schedule using the schedule reflection program 1b. By sending an e-mail with a warning of the deadline to related persons including the person in charge using 1c, the warning of the expiration of the deadline is repeated to the person in charge, and the attention to the deadline is urged, so that the response to the contents of the deadline is taken It can be managed reliably.

Further, by transferring data relating to the time limit between the masters and reflecting the data, the number of times of inputting / erasing can be reduced in the entire group in which the time limit management system can be used. Further, it is possible to avoid a problem of inconvenience that data regarding the time limit of the same case cannot be matched.

Further, the time limit management is performed collectively in the time limit management system as described above, and the contents of the completed time limit are stored as case information 7 of the server as history information of the case.
By leaving (in text data) in the personal schedule data 10 and the group schedule data 11, data related to the time limit is displayed on a display screen of a browsing application such as a browser in a separate case management system,
Since it is possible to browse and search, not only the time limit management using the time limit management system but also the case management becomes easy. Similarly, even in the schedule management system, it is possible to accurately grasp the progress of dealing with the case where the deadline occurs, which is convenient.

Further, in the present embodiment, in the time limit management system, necessary information is browsed from the case data 7 and the schedule data 10 and 11, and data is input to the case data 7 and the schedule data 10 and 11. Therefore, data management can be performed efficiently.

The term management system controlled in this way eliminates the need to install application software and system on the terminal, and only requires a browsing application such as a browser. Is simple and light.

The terminal is not limited to a single terminal, but may be, for example, a fixed terminal such as a terminal installed in a user's home or an Internet cafe, or a mobile phone or a notebook computer. It is also possible to access from a mobile terminal, which is highly convenient.

Further, by requesting an ID or a password to log in to the time limit management system, it is possible to prevent the information from being browsed or searched by anyone other than the person concerned, thereby increasing security. ing.

Next, as a more specific example of the above-mentioned time limit management system and time limit management method, a patent time limit management in a patent office using patent management data for a patent application filed with the Patent Office as the case data will be described. The system will be described with reference to FIGS. Those which are not particularly mentioned are the same as those of the above-mentioned time limit management system or time limit management method.

The case data 7 of this embodiment includes a deposit number,
It contains information such as the date of acceptance, application number, application date, title of invention, customer, person in charge, deadline content, deadline, history, and the like. In the present embodiment, the content of the deadline is code-managed by a deadline content master in a separate case management system for each deadline content.

When the contents of the expiration date are “response to notification of rejection reason”, “1”
Date management data, which is referred to when determining the preliminary management date before the actual expiration date according to the content of the deadline, such as "3 days" in the case of "application", is code-managed, It is stored.

In the warning management master 9, if the content of the deadline is "response to notification of reasons for refusal" as described above, "3 days" from the preliminary management date, and , Such as "7 days" from the preliminary management date, and a time limit referred to when determining a time limit preparation period corresponding to the content of the time limit calculated from the preliminary management date and the first day of the time limit preparation period. Management data is code-managed and stored.

Further, in the deadline management system of this embodiment, the main control unit 1 uses the application number (accession number) as the initial screen data for the deadline for the entire group that arrives 10 days after the login date. ),
The contents of the deadline, the warning management date, the preliminary management date, the actual deadline date, the person in charge, and the progress status are controlled so as to be displayed on the initial screen in the order of incidents close to the actual deadline date.

The schedule reflection program 1
According to b, the control is made so that the accession number and the contents of the deadline for specifying the case are reflected in the schedule of the person in charge only on the preliminary management date among the warning management date, the preliminary management date, and the actual expiration date. .

Further, the expiration date communication program 1c is controlled so as to send out an e-mail warning of expiration of the expiration date every time the system is logged in.

In the case data 7, the accession number is “P1111”, and “Patent Application XX-YYYYYYYYY” of the patent application whose party is in charge of A is “200X1. The data with the actual expiration date of "Month 31" is input.

Under the above setting, the accession number “P111”
(1) (P111)
Time limit management for 1) case will be described.

A user using the time limit management system logs in to the time limit management system using a browsing application such as a browser of a terminal connected to the server, the password is authenticated, and the processing of the time limit management system is performed. When started, the deadline management system first calculates two management dates, a preliminary management date and a warning management date, by a management date setting unit using the management date program 1a.

That is, in the present embodiment, “P111
“200X”, which is the deadline for “response to notice of reasons for refusal”
"Response to notice of reasons for refusal"
In correspondence with the code attached to the above, the preliminary expiration date management master 8 refers to “1 day” when the expiration date is “response to notification of reason for refusal”, and sets the actual expiration date as the preliminary management date of the case. One day before, "January 30, 200X" is determined. Subsequently, the warning management master 9 refers to “3 days” when the content of the term is “corresponding to the notification of reason for refusal” in association with the code given to “correspondence of notification of the reason for refusal”,
The three days from “January 27, 200X to January 29, 200X” are grasped as the deadline response preparation period, and the warning management date of the case is the first day of the deadline response preparation period. 27th ".

The management date obtained as described above is reflected on each schedule reflection means and time limit communication means as follows.

First, after the actual expiration date of the “P1111” case is input to the case data 7, the user first logs in to the period management system, so that the personal schedule data column shown in FIG. Is the warning management date,
Of the preliminary management date and the actual expiration date, "20
In the column of “January 30, 0X”, data of “response to rejection reason” for the “P1111” case is transferred.

The contents of this management are not limited to the screen of the schedule list of the deadline management system, and the personal schedule data can be opened by a browsing application such as a browser of a terminal device using a separate schedule management system. Thereby, the information on the time limit of the charge case can be automatically displayed in the column of the corresponding day without waiting for the input of the person in charge, and can be used.

The transfer data transferred in this time limit management system is displayed on the screen in a manner distinguished from other schedule data input by the individual.
In the above, the transfer data is marked with an asterisk (★), and other schedule data input by an individual is displayed as no mark. Then, for the transfer data marked with ★, by selecting the transfer data by clicking or the like, the details extracted from the case data 7 are displayed as shown in FIG. A display screen can be displayed.

The progress of the contents of the deadline is selected by clicking on the display area of “progress” shown in the lower left of FIG. Display a pull-down menu in the "Progress" field, and click and select one of the "Unstarted", "Started", and "Hold" display areas that indicate the progress shown in the menu bar of the pull-down menu By doing so, the screen is displayed on the screen. In FIGS. 3 and 4, “start” is selected. In addition, the selection button of the pull-down menu is set in advance to “progress
It is also possible to change the specification so that it is arranged in the column.

When the time limit has been completed or when necessary, the case data is selected by clicking on the display area of “to case data” shown in the lower center of FIG. Display on the screen. As described above, when the deadline response is completed, perform this operation, access the case data, and enter the date when the deadline response was completed on the display screen,
In the present embodiment, the input corresponding to the contents of the time limit is input, and the time limit management for the case is ended. Thereafter, the case is excluded from the target of the time limit management.

Further, from the detailed display screen, it is possible to return to the schedule screen by selecting the display area of “to the schedule screen” shown at the lower right of FIGS. 3 and 4 by clicking or the like.

In the present embodiment, "200X 1
By logging into the deadline management system after “18th of March”, the “deadline that arrives 10 days after the login date” displayed on the initial screen display includes XX-YYYYYYY ”, the warning management date of“ Response to Rejection ”is included, so that the expiration information for the case concerned is expanded as shown in the group expiration list in FIG. It will be displayed on the screen.

In other words, regarding the “P1111” case, the application number is “Japanese Patent Application No. XX-YYYYYYYY”, the deadline is “response to rejection reason”, and the warning management date for recommending the response is “January 27, 200X , "Preliminary management date, January 29, 200X", the actual expiration date, "January 30, 200X", the person in charge "A",
As the progress state, for example, the content such as “not started” is displayed on the screen. Also, even if the actual expiration date has passed, if there is no input indicating that the content of the expiration date has been completed, the display color of the screen on the display screen of the schedule data displayed on the browser of the terminal is different, as described above. It is as follows.

Further, in the present embodiment, the fact that the day of login is after “January 27, 200X” on the warning management date, and the “P1111” case still corresponds to the deadline of “Response for refusal reason” for the “P1111” case. If there is no input, a warning that the deadline for "response to refusal" is due for the case of "P1111" is set in advance as the data of Party A in the person in charge master. Send an e-mail to the specified e-mail address.

As described above, also in the patent expiration date management system of this embodiment, the processing for calculating the preliminary management date and the warning management date by the management date setting means, and the two management dates are reflected in the schedule data by the schedule reflection means. Control is performed so as to perform all the processes of displaying the schedule list and transmitting the e-mail warning the deadline to the person in charge of the case by the deadline communication means.

According to the patent expiration date management method of this embodiment, the preliminary management date is reflected in the schedule by using the schedule reflection program 1b, and a warning of the expiration date is sent electronically to Party A using the expiration date communication program 1c. By sending the information by e-mail, it is possible to repeatedly call attention to the handling of the deadline, and it is possible to reliably manage the handling of the deadline.

Also, by displaying the result of the time limit management in the group time limit list on the initial screen or in the group schedule list, not only the person in charge directly but also the related person can check the time limit and the content of the time limit. It is possible to grasp the progress of the response.

Then, the input operation of the information on the term is also
Only one entry of the deadline contents and the actual deadline date for the case data 7 is required, and the work of inputting other schedule data and deadline management data can be omitted. Further, it is possible to avoid a problem of inconvenience that data regarding the time limit of the same case cannot be matched.

Further, the deadline management is performed collectively in the deadline management system as described above, and the contents of the completed deadline are stored in the case data 7, the personal schedule data 10, and the group schedule data 11 of the server by storing the history information of the case. By leaving (in text data), data on the time limit can be displayed on the display screen of a browsing application such as a browser in a separate case management system, and can be browsed and searched. Not only deadline management but also case management becomes easier. Further, the text data can be processed in another application system.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various changes can be made as needed.

For example, login to the system from the server is performed. However, under a 24-hour management system, login cannot be used as an opportunity to start processing of the management system. Then, it is preferable to construct the time limit management system so that the above-described processing is periodically performed at a fixed time.

Further, the time limit management system and time limit management method of the present invention can be applied to a sales management scene where a secondary time limit such as ordering of goods and delivery of goods may occur, ordering of parts for manufacturing products, arrangement of staff, and the like. In various situations that require secondary deadline management, such as in the case of manufacturing control where secondary deadlines may occur, the deadline of the deadline management system is time-based and redundantly managed. Alerts the user of the expiration of the deadline, alerts them to the response to the deadline, makes it easier for third parties to grasp the progress, and makes the environment of the terminal very simple in terms of system, As long as connection to the server is possible, it is possible to effectively exhibit effects such as enabling access from a remote place using communication means.

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As described above, according to the present invention,
The time limit of the case is automatically and temporally overlapped, and furthermore, the data on the time limit is reflected on the screen of the time limit list and the schedule list to prompt a visual attention and e-mail a warning of the time limit expiration. By doing so, the time limit can be managed completely. Further, it is possible to reduce the work of inputting information relating to the time limit of one case, and to avoid an erroneous input or a problem of inconvenience that data between the time limits of the same case cannot be matched. In addition, by performing the deadline management in association with the schedule data and the case data, the deadline management, the schedule management, and the case management can be performed more efficiently. The system also utilizes the communication means to allow access to the time limit management system from a remote place to improve convenience, and to enhance security by ensuring access security, thereby enhancing usability. And other effects can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of a time limit management system.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a schedule list.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a detailed display screen.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a pull-down menu of a progress status on a detailed display screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a term list as an initial screen

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 Main control unit 1a Management date program 1b Schedule reflection program 1c Deadline communication program 1d Memory 2 Storage device 3 Control unit 3a Reading application 4 Input device 5 Display device 6 Output device 7 Incident data 8 Preliminary deadline management master 9 Warning management master 10 Individual Schedule data 11 Group schedule data 12 Customer master 13 Person in charge master

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A server comprising: a server; a terminal provided with a browsing application capable of using the server system; and a communication system for connecting the server and the terminal. A case management system comprising: case data including the case data; schedule data of a person in charge; and control means for processing the data. The control means includes: A management date setting means for determining a preliminary management date before the date of the deadline according to the content of the above, and determining a first day of a preparation period corresponding to the content of the deadline calculated from the preliminary management date as a warning management date; A schedule management program that reflects the contents of the deadline in schedule data of at least one of the deadline date, the preliminary management date, and the warning management date of the user. And a term communication means for communicating a warning of the expiration of the term to a communication destination of a preset person in charge at a preset frequency until an input indicating that communication is unnecessary from the warning management date. A term management system characterized by the following. 2. A time limit management method for processing and managing case data of a case that may have a time limit and schedule data of a person in charge on a server, based on the time limit of the case, The preliminary management date is determined, and the first day of the preparation period corresponding to the content of the deadline calculated from the preliminary management date is obtained as a warning management date, and the date of the deadline, the preliminary management date, and the At least one of the warning management dates reflects the content of the deadline, the terminal connected to the server makes the schedule data available, and an input indicating that communication is not required from the warning management date. A deadline management method characterized by communicating a warning that the deadline has arrived to a communication destination of a preset person in charge at a preset frequency until a certain time.