JP2003114962A - Schedule managing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a schedule managing system capable of accepting reservation by optimally using a conference room where number of accommodatable persons and available space is variably set with movable walls or partitions by using not an idea that the number is increased by adding physical resources but an idea that the number is increased by dividing the physical resources. SOLUTION: This schedule managing system capable of managing a facility where number of accommodatable persons or available space is variably set as a shared resource is provided with a means for acquiring facility use reservation data from a user and a means for selecting a proper facility from the reservation data. When the number of users who has reserved the facility is less than the number of accommodatable persons of the facility to be reserved, the available space corresponding to the surplus accommodation number of persons is registered as a virtual facility to be reserved in the same way as the physical space.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to facility reservations such as meetings and meetings held in companies and organizations, and in particular, the number of persons accommodated in the facility and the space used are dynamically changed by using movable walls. The present invention relates to a schedule management system capable of handling possible facilities.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are many systems that manage schedules of shared resources such as conference rooms using a schedule management system, but it is not possible to reserve a conference room that can accommodate the number of people in a conference, that is, reservations are accepted in the order of prior agreement. Therefore, the optimal allocation for the number of users was not made.
As a means for solving this problem, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-3533
There is a conference room reservation management system described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 90 and a recording medium recording the program. In this system, when there is a contract in the meeting room you want to use, by changing the meeting room used in the previous contract, it is possible to use the meeting room more effectively on both the front and back sides. .

That is, when the number of participants in the conference on the succeeding side is large and the number of participants in the conference room cannot be satisfied, the conference room of the preceding contract is changed. When changing a meeting room, a method is adopted in which a meeting room with the smallest capacity is selected from the meeting rooms that are available at the designated date and time and have a capacity larger than the number of participants in the previous conference.

[0004]

In the above prior art, even if the number of participants in the previous meeting is far less than the capacity of the meeting room, if there is no room in the alternative meeting room at the designated date and time. It is not possible to make a reservation for the back side that requires the capacity of the relevant conference room. This is because the conventional schedule management system allocates the optimal meeting room each time a reservation is received, and if the number of participants in the meeting is far below the capacity of the meeting room, the meeting room The rest of the space was wasted. This is because physically one facility cannot receive a reservation from another person whose designated time overlaps at the time when even one reservation is received at the designated time.

On the other hand, there are relatively many resources such as a conference room provided with a variable wall (movable wall) or a conference room in which a partition can be used to partition the room as needed. , There is no system for making a conference room reservation.

An object of the present invention is to use a concept of increasing the number by dividing the number instead of adding physical resources to increase the number. It is to realize a schedule management system that makes it possible to optimally utilize and accept reservations. As a result, waste of space in the conference room can be minimized and limited resources can be effectively used.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the schedule management system according to the present invention is premised on a facility that is equipped with movable walls and partitions and can be divided and used. A physical facility information database that registers facility IDs, reservation status, number of people who can accommodate, facilities, etc., with the entire space of the facility as a physical facility, a reservation transmission / reception means that receives and responds to reservation data, and facility information reference request data Select the most suitable facility by comparing the reservation data with the facility information transmission / reception unit that analyzes the reservation data and the conditions such as the number of people in the physical facility and the equipment and the reservation data, and when the reservation is officially accepted, the surplus is selected. It is provided with means for calculating the space, determining whether or not the virtual facility can be set, and, if the virtual facility can be set, calculating the number of people who can accommodate the virtual facility and registering it as a virtual facility.

When there is a facility information reference request, facility information management means having a function of selecting physical facility information and virtual facility information satisfying the conditions of the facility information reference request data,
A virtual facility information database that stores facility IDs of virtual facilities, reservation status, the number of people that can be accommodated, and facilities, and a confidentiality management table that sets access rights to the organization to which the user belongs in order to limit the disclosure range of the facility. In an environment where a confidentiality management table is set, confidentiality checking means for determining whether or not the reservation person and the reference person have access rights to the facility selected by the facility information management means,
When receiving the reservation data, the most suitable facility selected from the facility information management means is accepted, and in the environment where the confidentiality management table is set, it is further determined whether the access right is set for the facility. It has a function to request confidentiality check means and formally accept reservation data when it becomes possible to make a reservation, and when there is a request to refer to facility information, physical facility information selected from facility information management means In the environment where the virtual facility information is accepted and the confidentiality management table is set, the confidentiality check means is requested to further determine whether the access right is set for the facility, and as a result, it is possible to refer to it. Reservation / reference execution means having a function of notifying the facility information transmission / reception means of only the facilities that have become unavailable.

As described above, even when the facility is already reserved, the actually required space is calculated from the number of participants included in the reservation data, and the difference between the space and the physical space is calculated as the surplus available space. We have realized a schedule management system that can newly display virtual facilities, and enable effective use of facilities by accepting as many new reservations as possible for the space used. For example, when making a reservation for a facility, the reservation transmitting / receiving unit receives the reservation data for the facility transmitted from the reservation person and notifies the reservation / reference executing unit of the data.

The reservation / reference execution means passes the received reservation data to the facility information management means, and requests the facility information management means to determine whether or not the facility can be reserved. The facility information management means selects an appropriate facility from the physical facility information on the condition of the number of persons accommodated in the reservation data and the facility, and notifies the reservation / reference execution means. At this point, if the confidentiality management table is set, the reservation / reference execution means that received the notification requests the confidentiality check means to determine whether the reservation person is permitted to access the facility. To do.

The confidentiality check means checks whether or not the reservation person has the access right to the facility using the confidentiality management table, and responds to the reservation / reference execution means whether or not the access is possible. As a result, if not authorized, the reservation / reference execution means requests the facility information management means to select another candidate, and the facility information management means selects the next candidate and confirms the access right by the confidentiality check means. repeat. Further, if there is no suitable facility in the physical facility information, the same process is repeated for the virtual facility information. When an appropriate facility is finally found, the reservation / reference execution means determines that the reservation is possible. If no suitable facility is found,
It is determined that reservation is not possible.

When the reservation / reference execution means becomes able to make a reservation, the reservation data is formally accepted and a reservation completion notice is sent to the reservation transmitting / receiving means, and then the physical facility information database or the physical facility information database is sent to the facility information managing means. Request update of virtual facility information database. If you cannot make a reservation,
The reservation notifying notification is sent to the reservation transmitting / receiving means. The reservation transmitting / receiving unit, which has received the result after executing the reservation process from the reservation / reference executing unit, performs a process of transmitting the result to the reservation person.
Further, only when the reservation is possible, the facility information management means updates the reservation information of the facility included in the virtual facility information database according to the reservation data, if necessary.

When referring to the facility information, the facility information reference request data from the referrer is received by the facility information transmitting / receiving means, and the data is passed to the reservation / reference executing means. The reservation / reference execution means passes the data to the facility information management means,
Request acquisition of facility information at the specified date and time. The facility information management means selects, from the physical facility information database, a facility that satisfies the date and time and the facility information reference request data received from the reservation / reference execution means, and notifies the reservation / reference execution means. At this point, if the access is controlled by the confidentiality management table, the reservation / reference executing means requests the confidentiality checking means to determine whether the access right to the facility is permitted. Confidentiality check means
The security management table is used to check whether the referrer has access to the physical facility received from the reservation / reference execution means, and the access / non-access is answered to the reservation / reference execution means. Further, the same processing is repeated for the virtual facility information, and the reservation / reference executing means that finally receives the response notifies the facility information transmitting / receiving means of only the accessible facility information. The facility information transmission / reception means that has received the notification transmits the facility information to the reference person.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. 101 in FIG. 1 is a client that reserves a schedule for a facility, 102 in FIG.
Is a client that refers to facility information. 1 of FIG.
Reference numeral 3 denotes the entire schedule management system, and reference numeral 104 in FIG. 1 denotes a reservation processing unit for accommodation facility variation facilities in the schedule management system. Reference numeral 105 in FIG. 1 is a confidentiality management table in which the access right is set to the organization to which the user belongs in order to control the access right to the facility, that is, to limit the disclosure range of the facility. In addition, Fig. 1
106 is a facility I where the entire space of the facility is a physical facility.
D, reservation status, occupancy capacity, physical facility information database that stores equipment, etc., 107 in FIG. 1 is a facility ID of a virtual facility created by dividing the physical facility into operating walls, partitions, etc., reservation status, occupancy capacity Is a virtual facility information database that stores equipment.

Reservation processing unit (10
4) comprises a reservation transmitter / receiver unit (110), a facility information transmitter / receiver unit (111), a reservation / reference execution unit (112), a confidentiality check unit (113), and a facility information management unit (114).
The reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) uses the reservation data (10) created by the client (101), that is, the reservation person A (U001).
8) Acceptance, notification of reservation completion when reservation is possible,
When it becomes impossible to make a reservation, a notice indicating that the reservation cannot be made is returned.

The facility information management section (114) analyzes the reservation data (108) and analyzes the physical facility information database (10).
6) It has a function of selecting the most suitable facility by comparing the conditions such as the number of people and facilities of the physical facility stored in 6) with that of the reservation data (108), and officially in the reservation / reference execution unit (112). When the reservation is accepted, the surplus space is calculated to determine whether or not the virtual facility can be set. If the virtual facility can be set, the number of persons accommodated in the virtual facility information database (107) is calculated as the virtual facility in the virtual facility information database (107). It has a function to dynamically register virtual facilities.

The confidentiality check unit (113), for the facility selected by the facility information management unit (114) in the environment where the confidentiality management table (105) is set,
It has a function to judge whether the reservation person (U001) has the access right. Reservation / reference execution unit (112)
In the environment in which the optimum facility selected from the facility information management unit (114) is received and the confidentiality management table (105) is set, whether or not the access right is set to the facility is determined. Check the confidentiality check section (1
13), and has a function of officially accepting the reservation data (108) when it becomes possible to make a reservation as a result.

Further, the facility information transmitting / receiving unit (111), when the facility information reference request is made by the facility information reference request data (109) created by the client (102), that is, the reference person B (U002), the facility information is transmitted. It has a function of receiving the reference request data (109) and replying the facility information. Further, the facility information management unit (114), when there is a facility information reference request other than the above-mentioned functions, the physical facility information database (106) and the virtual facility information database (1).
It also has a function of selecting physical facility information and virtual facility information satisfying the conditions of the facility information reference request data (109) from 07). In addition to the above-mentioned functions, the reservation / reference execution unit (112) also accepts physical facility information / virtual facility information selected from the facility information management unit (114) when there is a facility information reference request, and further In the environment where the confidentiality management table (105) is set, the confidentiality check unit (113) is requested to determine whether the access right is set for the facility, and as a result, it becomes possible to refer to it. It also has a function of notifying only the facility to the facility information transmitting / receiving unit (111).

FIG. 2 shows an example of the data structure stored in the facility information transmitting / receiving unit (111) which has received the facility information reference request data (109) created by the client (102). When referring to facility information in order to confirm the availability of the facility before making a reservation at the facility, create this data on the client. The facility information reference request data is stored for each of the referrer user ID (201) and the belonging organization ID (202) of the organization to which the referrer belongs, and is composed of date information (203) to be referred to. The date information includes a reference date (204) and a reference time (205).

FIG. 3 shows a reservation transmission / reception unit (1) which has received reservation data (108) created by the client (101).
10) is an example of a data structure stored in. When making a reservation at the facility, create this data on the client.
The reservation data is stored for each of the reservation user ID (301) and the organization ID (302) of the organization to which the reservation person belongs, and accommodates the date information (303) desired to be reserved and the number of participants such as conferences ( 304), a desk, a whiteboard, and other equipment required for the conference, and necessary equipment (305) for setting the number thereof. Required equipment (305)
The necessary number is stored together with the equipment name in the date information (303) and the reservation date (306) and reservation time (30
7) is included.

FIG. 4 is an example of a data structure diagram of the security management table (105). The confidentiality management table is set for each organization ID (401) to which the user belongs and for each facility ID (402) that is referred to or reserved, and is configured with an access right (403). The access right includes an access right to a physically existing facility, that is, an access right to a physical facility (404) and an access right to a virtual facility created by partitioning with an operating wall or partition (40).
5). Refer to “Yes” if you want to refer to the organization to which each user belongs and make a reservation.
If the reservation is prohibited, "Not allowed" is set. If the access right (404) to the physical facility is “impossible”,
The access right (405) to the virtual facility is automatically set to "impossible". If the physical facility cannot be virtualized, the access right (405) to the virtual facility is set to "-". Access rights should be set not only for physical facilities but also for virtual facilities.If the physical facility is divided by partitions such as partitions that are difficult to secure confidentiality, multiple meetings are held at the same time. This is because it is necessary to consider confidentiality more than when monopolizing the use of physical facilities. That is, when the physical facility is a facility such as a project room that has a property of considering confidentiality, it is possible to make a setting to avoid sharing with other departments even if a virtual facility is born. Therefore, with this access right, the virtual facility (4
If the facility is virtualized by reservation from some department at the time of reservation by setting 05) to “disabled”,
It can be set so that the reservation person cannot make a reservation for the virtual facility. Further, it is used not only for confirming the authority at the time of reservation, but also for setting whether or not the virtual facility is allowed to be registered when the reservation person reserves at the physical facility and there is a surplus in the number of accommodated persons or facilities. If there is a surplus such as the accommodation capacity when making a reservation at the physical facility, the virtual facility will be registered and the physical facility will be shared with other departments, so the access right to the virtual facility of the department to which the reservation person belongs ( If 405) is set to “OK”, the physical facility can be prevented from being virtualized. Therefore, by setting the access right (404) to the physical facility to “Yes” and the access right to the virtual facility to “No”, sharing of the same facility with other departments can be avoided, and confidentiality can be secured. Leads to. On the other hand, when the departments set to “OK” make a reservation for the virtual facility, the same facility can be shared, so that the resources can be effectively used.

FIG. 5 shows the physical facility information database (10
It is an example of the data structure diagram of 6). The physical facility information database is stored for each facility information (501) and date information (503) in which data such as date and time is stored, and whether or not it is possible to partition the facility into multiple partitions with operating walls and partitions. The virtualization (502) information to be set and the virtual status (504) indicating whether or not the virtual information is actually virtualized at the time of the date information (503), and the reservation for setting whether or not the facility is reserved Situation (5
05), the number of people accommodated in the physical facility (506) and the equipment of the relevant physical facility (507). Virtualization (50
2) In the information, "Yes" is set if the physical facility is equipped with operating walls, partitions, etc. and the facility is partitioned, and virtual facilities can be set, and "No" if the virtual facilities cannot be set. . The date information (503) includes a reservation date (508) and a reservation time (509). In the virtual status (504), for the physical facility for which virtualization is set to "OK", "Yes" is displayed if the physical facility is virtualized at the date and time of the date information (503), and virtualization is performed. If not, "none" is set. In addition, "-" is set for a physical facility that cannot be virtualized, that is, a physical facility that cannot generate a virtual facility, such as an operating wall or partition. The reservation status (505) is set to "yes" when there is a reservation at the date and time of the date information (503) for the physical facility, and "none" when there is no reservation. The number of persons (506) that can be accommodated in the physical facility is stored in the accommodation number (506). The equipment (507) includes desks and chairs,
The facility information such as a whiteboard held by the corresponding physical facility is stored together with the number of each.

FIG. 6 shows a virtual facility information database (10
It is an example of a data structure diagram of 7). The virtual facility information is registered as a virtual facility obtained by dividing the number of accommodated physical facilities and facilities according to the reservation contents when a reservation is made for a virtualizable physical facility. The virtual facility information is stored for each of the facility ID (601) of the physical facility, the virtual facility ID (602), and the date information (603) in which data such as date and time is stored, and is stored at the date and time of the date information (603). It is composed of a vacancy status (604) for setting whether or not a reservation is made, the number of persons accommodated in the virtual facility (605) created by the reservation for the physical facility, information of the facility (606) of the virtual facility, and the like. The virtual facility ID (602) is added to the virtual facility created by the reservation for the physical facility for convenience I
It is D. The date information (603) includes the reservation date (607).
And reservation time (608). Also, availability (6
In 04), "X" is set when a reservation is made for the date and time of the date information (603) for the virtual facility, and "○" is set for the virtual facility which is not reserved, that is, for which reservation is possible. To be done. In the accommodation capacity (605), the accommodation capacity (304) of the reservation data in FIG. 3 and the surplus accommodation capacity of the physical facility after the reservation is accepted are registered as the accommodation capacity of the new virtual facility. Similarly for the equipment (606), the equipment corresponding to the necessary equipment (305) of the reservation data in FIG. 3 and the remaining equipment are registered. For example, desk 2 for 10 people
5 for a physical facility with one and one whiteboard
If the reservation data that requires one desk and one whiteboard for the name is accepted, depending on the reservation, the capacity is "x" and the capacity is 5 people, the equipment is desk 1, whiteboard 1
Using the virtual facilities to be used and the areas for the remaining 5 persons of the physical facilities, the virtual facilities having the capacity of 5 persons and the desk 1 of the facility are registered in the reserved virtual facility information database in the availability status "○". Become.

Next, the process of the program for setting a virtual facility as a result of making a reservation in the physical facility when the reservation person reserves the facility for holding a conference will be described with reference to the flow chart of FIG. First, the schedule management system (10
3) The reservation data (108) transmitted by the reservation person A (ID: U001) is received by the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) (step 701). Next, the reservation / reference executing unit (112) transfers the reservation data (108) for the facility received from the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) to the facility information management unit (114),
The facility information management unit (114) reads the physical facility information database (106) (step 702), and the reservation person A
Of the reservation data of (ID: U001) in FIG. 3, date information (3
03) is 2001/1/18 10: 00-11: 00, this is compared with the date information (503) in FIG. 5 and there is no reservation at the matching date and time (reservation status (505) is “none”). ) Further, a physical facility having a capacity of 304 or more and having the necessary equipment (305) satisfying the desk 1, chair 5, and whiteboard 1 is searched (step 703). Here, the facility ID in FIG. 5 is sh
Date information (503) in isetsu1 2001/1/18 10:00 ~ 11: 0
When the reservation status (505) of the record of 0, the equipment (507) is the desk 2, the chair 10, and the whiteboard 1 is “none”, the optimum facility is searched and the reservation / reference execution unit (112) is notified. Then, the reservation / reference executing unit (112) receives the reservation data (step 704), and transmits a reservation completion notice to the reservation person A through the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) (step 705). After that, the physical facility information database (106) and the virtual facility information database (107) are updated.

That is, the accommodation number (304) of the reservation data (108) is compared with the accommodation number (506) of the physical facility information to be reserved (step 706), that is, (accommodation number of physical facility information)-(reservation). If the result of the data capacity is 2 or more, virtualization (502)
Proceed to the process of confirming whether or not. When the capacity of the reservation data and the capacity of the physical facility are equal to each other or less than 2, the date and time information (303) of the reservation data of the physical facility information database (106) and the date information of the physical facility (50
The reservation status (505) of the record having the same 3) is set to "present" and the process is terminated (step 708), and the virtual facility is not registered. Here, the reservation person A (ID: U00
Since the capacity of the reservation data sent by 1) is 5 and the capacity of the reservation target facility is 10, the result of (accommodation capacity of physical facility information)-(accommodation capacity of reservation data) is 5.
Go to the next step. Next, it is determined whether the virtualization (502) of the relevant physical facility information is set to "OK" (step 707). In the case of "not possible", the reservation status (505) of the record in which the date / time information (303) of the reservation data of the physical facility information database (106) and the date information (503) of the physical facility match is set as "present" and processed. Is finished (step 708). The virtual facility is not registered for the physical facility for which the virtualization (502) is set to "impossible", even if a reservation with less than the accommodation number is executed.
In this case, virtualization of the relevant physical facility (shisetsu1) (50
Since 2) is set to "OK", the reservation status of the record in which the date and time information (303) 2001/1/18 10: 00-11: 00 of the reservation data and the date information (503) of the physical facility match ( Fifty
5) is set to "Yes" (step 709), and then the virtual situation (504) is set to "Yes" (step 71).
0).

Next, the process for registering the virtual facility is proceeded to. First, two temporary facility IDs (k01, k02) are acquired (step 71).
1), the result of (accommodation number of physical facility information)-(accommodation number of reservation data) is acquired as a virtual facility accommodation number (step 712). Here, the number of persons accommodated in the virtual facility is 5. Further, the physical facility facility (507) minus the required facility (305) of the reservation data is acquired as a virtual facility facility (step 713). Here, the facilities of the physical facility are a desk 2, a chair 10, a whiteboard 1,
Since the necessary equipment for the reservation data transmitted by (ID: U001) is the desk 1, the chair 5 and the whiteboard 1, the virtual facilities are the desk 1 and the chair 5. In this way, after calculating each item of the virtual facility information database (107), the temporary facility ID (k02), the number of persons accommodating the virtual facility (5), and the virtual facility equipment (desk 1, chair 5) acquired in the above process are calculated. The virtual facility information database (10) is set as the virtual facility with the provisional facility ID (602), the number of persons (605), and the facility (606) set, and the availability (604) set to "○".
7) is registered (step 714).

After that, the virtual facility used by the executed reservation and having the vacant status (604) of "x" is also registered. The provisional facility ID of the virtual facility is k01, and the accommodation number (605) and the equipment (606) follow the accommodation number (304) and the necessary equipment (305) of the reservation data. That is, the capacity (605) is 5, the facility (606) is the desk 1,
Chair 5 and whiteboard 1.

Next, the processing flow of the processing program for searching both the physical facility and the virtual facility when the reservation person reserves the facility for holding the conference will be described with reference to FIG. The schedule management system (103) is a reservation person A (ID: U0
The reservation data (108) transmitted by 01) is received by the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) (step 801). Next reservation
The reference execution unit (112) passes the reservation data (108) for the facility received from the reservation transmission / reception unit (110) to the facility information management unit (114), and the facility information management unit (114).
Reads the physical facility information database (106) (step 802), and the date information (303) in the reservation data of the reservation person A (ID: U001) FIG. 3 is 2001/1/19 9:00 to 11: 0
If it is 0, this and the date information (50
3) are compared and there is no reservation on the matching date and time (reservation status (5
(05) is “none”), and the number of persons (304) that can accommodate is 6 or more, and the required facility (305) is a physical facility that fills the desk 1 and the chair 6 (step 803).

If the relevant facility exists, the reservation / reference execution unit (112) is notified (step 804), and the reservation / reference execution unit (112) performs the reservation process (step 809).
However, in this case, there is no recordable physical facility because there is no record for which the reservation status (505) is "none" between 2001/1/19 9:00 and 11:00. If there is no reservable physical facility, the facility information management unit (114) reads the virtual facility information database (107) (step 805) and, like the physical facility, the reservation person A (ID: U00).
Date information (303) 2001/1/19 among the reservation data in 1)
There is no reservation for the date information (603) that matches 9: 00-11: 00 (vacancy status (604) is "○"), and the number of people (30
4) searches for a virtual facility in which 6 or more people and the necessary equipment (305) satisfy the desk 1 and the chair 6 (steps 906 and 90).
7). If an appropriate virtual facility exists, the reservation / reference execution unit (112) performs reservation processing (step 809).
However, if there is no reservable virtual facility, the reservation / reference execution unit (112) discards the reservation data, and the reservation transmission / reception unit (110) transmits a reservation disapproval notice to the reservation person A. (Step 808).

When a facility that can be reserved for the physical facility or virtual facility is found, the reservation / reference execution unit (11
2) receives the reservation data (step 809) and transmits a reservation completion notice to the reservation person through the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) (step 810). In this case, since the virtual facility (temporary facility ID: k04) of FIG. 6 exists as a facility that satisfies the reservation data of the reservation person A, the date information of the reservation person A (303) 2001/1/19 9: 00-11 Reservation data of: 00 will be accepted. Then, the physical facility information database (106) and the virtual facility information database (107) are updated according to the accepted reservation (step 811). That is, in the case of making a reservation for a physical facility, the reservation status (505) of a record having the date information (503) of the physical facility information database (106) as the date information (303) of the reservation data (108) is set to “present”, If virtualization is possible, the virtual facility information database (107) is also updated. In the case of a reservation for a virtual facility, the vacancy status (604) of the record in which the date information (603) in the virtual facility information database matches the date information (303) in the reservation data is set as “x”. In this case, the reservation person A has accepted the reservation for the virtual facility (facility ID: shisetsu1, provisional facility ID: k04) in FIG. 6 having the same date information, so the availability status (604) of the corresponding record is indicated as “x”. Will be reset to.

Next, a processing flow of the processing program in the case where the reservation person reserves the facility for holding the conference and the access right is controlled by the confidentiality management table will be described with reference to FIG. Schedule management system (103)
Is the reservation data (10) sent by the reservation person A (ID: U001).
8) is received by the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) (step 9).
01). Next, the reservation / reference executing unit (112) transfers the reservation data (108) for the facility received from the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) to the facility information management unit (114), and the facility information management unit (114) causes the physical facility information to be acquired. Database (10
6) is read (step 902) and the reservation person A (ID:
The date information (303) of the reservation data in Fig. 3 (U001) is
2001/1/20 If it is 15: 00-16: 00, and this is compared with the date information (503) in FIG. 5, there is no reservation at the matching date and time (reservation status (505) is “none”), and further A physical facility having a capacity (304) of 7 or more and a necessary facility (305) satisfying the desk 1 and the chair 7 is searched (step 903).
Here, the facility ID of FIG. 5 is shisetsu2 and date information (50
3) 2001/1/20 15: 00-16: 00, equipment (507) desk 1, chair 20, whiteboard 1 record reservation status (505) is "none", and it is searched as the most suitable facility. Then, the reservation / reference execution unit (112) is notified (step 904).

For the selected facility (shisetsu2), the reservation / reference execution unit (112) permits the confidentiality check unit (113) to the client (101), that is, the reservation person A (U001), to access the facility. Ask for a decision. The confidentiality check unit (113) uses the confidentiality management table (105) to identify the organization to which the subscriber A belongs (kaihatsu).
Determines whether the physical facility (shisetsu2) is accessible (steps 905 and 906). as a result,
When there is a reservable physical facility in which the physical facility (404) in FIG. 4 is “OK”, the reservation / reference execution unit (11
2) performs the reservation process (step 913). In this case, the organization I of the reservation person A to the facility ID shisetsu2 belongs to.
Since the access right (404) to the physical facility of D kaihatsu is “impossible”, it is determined that there is no access right.
The reservation / reference execution unit (112) requests the facility information management unit (114) to select another candidate, and the facility information management unit (11)
In step 4), the next candidate is selected and the security check unit (113) repeats the process of confirming the access right. In this case, the date information (303) of the subscriber A (ID: U001) is 2001/1/20 1
From 5:00 to 16:00, the number of people (304) can accommodate more than 7 people, the required equipment (305) Desk 1, chair 7 There is no other physical facility that satisfies the reservation data, so the facility information management section (11)
4) reads the virtual facility information database (107) (step 907), and in the same way as the physical facility, the reservation person A (I)
D: U001) Reservation data date information (303) 2001
There is no reservation for the date information (603) that coincides with 1/1/20 15: 00-16: 00 (vacancy status (604) is "○"), the number of people (304) is 6 or more, and the necessary equipment (305) Searches for a virtual facility that fills desk 1 and chair 7 (steps 908, 9).
09). When an appropriate virtual facility exists, the confidentiality check unit (113) confirms the access right as in the physical facility (steps 910 and 911).

In this case, the virtual facility (facility ID: shisetsu) shown in FIG.
1, the temporary facility ID: k08) exists, and the access right (405) to the virtual facility of the organization ID kaihatsu of the reservation person A for the facility ID shisetsu1 is “OK”. (303) 2001/1/20 15: 00〜1
The reservation data at 6:00 is accepted by the reservation / reference execution unit (112) (step 913). However, if there is no reservable virtual facility, the reservation / reference execution unit (11).
2) selects a different virtual facility candidate from the facility information management unit (11
4), the facility information management unit 114 selects the next candidate and repeats the process of confirming the access right by the confidentiality check unit 113. If no virtual facility that can be reserved is finally found, the reservation / reference executing unit (112) discards the reservation data, and the reservation transmitting / receiving unit (110) transmits a reservation non-performing notification to the reservation person ( Step 91
2). When a facility that can be reserved for the physical facility or virtual facility is found, the reservation / reference execution unit (112) receives the reservation data (step 913) and makes a reservation for the reservation person through the reservation transmission / reception unit (110). A completion notice is transmitted (step 914). Then, the physical facility information database (106) and the virtual facility information database (107) are updated according to the accepted reservation (step 915). In the case of making a reservation for a physical facility, the reservation status (505) of the record in which the date information (503) of the physical facility information database (106) is used as the date information (303) of the reservation data (108) is set to "Yes", and accommodation is performed. There is a surplus in the number of people, and further, of the access right (403) to the relevant facility of the reservation person A, the virtual facility (405) is “OK”.
If so, a process of registering the virtual facility in the virtual facility information database (107) is performed. If the virtual facility (405) is “impossible”, even if the physical facility information database (10)
The virtualization (502) of 6) is “OK”, and even if there is a surplus in the number of accommodated persons, the virtual facility registration processing is not performed.
That is, the physical facility is exclusively used. In the case of a reservation for a virtual facility, the vacancy status (604) of the record in which the date information (603) in the virtual facility information database matches the date information (303) in the reservation data is set as “x”. In this case, the reservation person A has accepted the reservation for the virtual facility (facility ID: shisetsu1, provisional facility ID: k08) in FIG. 6 having the same date information, so the availability status (604) of the corresponding record is indicated as “x”. Will be reset to.

Next, the processing flow of the processing program when referring to facility information will be described with reference to FIG. The schedule management system (103) uses the reference person B (ID: U0
The facility information reference request data (109) transmitted by 02) is received by the facility information transmitting / receiving unit (111) (step 100).
1). The facility information transmission / reception unit (111) passes the data to the reservation / reference execution unit (112). The reservation / reference execution unit (112) passes the data to the facility information management unit (114) and requests the facility information management unit (114) to obtain the facility information at the designated date and time. The requested facility information management unit (114) reads the physical facility information database (106) and refers to the reference person B (ID: U002)
In the facility information reference request data (109) of FIG. 2, if the date information (203) in FIG. 2 is 2001/1/20 15: 00-16: 00, this and the date information (503) in FIG. The facility information that is compared and has the same date and time is selected, and the reservation / reference execution unit (1
12) is notified (step 1002). That is, here, the facility ID in FIG. 5 is shisetsu1 and the date information (50
3) is the record and facility ID of 2001/1/20 15: 00-16: 00
Date information (503) on shisetsu2 2001/1/20 15: 00-1
The record at 6:00 is notified to the reservation / reference execution unit (112). Further, the same process is repeated for the virtual facility information database (107) (step 1003), and the record of the facility ID of shisetsu1 and the temporary facility ID of k07 and the record of k08 in FIG. 6 are reserved / reference execution unit (112). Will be notified. Reservation / reference execution unit (11
The confidential check unit (113) uses the client (10) for the acquired physical facility information and virtual facility information.
2) That is, the reference person B (ID: U002) is requested to determine whether or not the access right to the facility is permitted, and the confidentiality check unit (113) uses the organization ID (202) of the facility information reference request data to Security management table (10
In 5), it is determined whether the organization to which the referrer B belongs can access the facility (step 1004).

As a result, the reservation / reference execution unit (112)
Transmits only the information of the referenceable physical facility and virtual facility to the reference person B through the facility information transmitting / receiving unit (111) (step 1005). That is, according to FIG. 4, the facility ID shis
Organization ID of referrer B (ID: U002) to etsu1
The access right (404) to the physical facility of eigyou is "OK",
Similarly, the access right (404) to the physical facility for the facility IDshisetsu2 is “OK”, but the facility IDshis
The access right (405) to the virtual facility for etsu1 is "impossible". Therefore, step 1003
Each of the two records of the virtual facility information acquired in
Since D is of shisetsu1, referrer B (I
Virtual facility information is not sent to D: U002). As a result, the reference person B (ID: U002) has physical facility information, that is, FIG.
Facility ID is shisetsu1 and date information (503) is 2001/1 /
20 Records from 15:00 to 16:00 and records with facility ID shisetsu2 and date information (503) January 1, 2001 15:00 to 16:00 are sent.

[0036]

According to the present invention, even if the facility is physically one, the space can be changed by using movable walls, partitions, etc. The surplus space created by dividing is dynamically displayed on the system as a virtual facility, and by repeating it, reservations can be accepted at the same time as much as possible, so that the limited shared resources can be maximized. There is an effect that it can be utilized.

Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to limit the openable range of the facility itself to the physical facility or to the virtual facility created by changing the usage pattern. It also has the effect of being able to accommodate facilities that require consideration of confidentiality.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a schedule management system for a facility with variable accommodation capacity according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of facility information reference request data.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of reservation data.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data structure of a security management table.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of a physical facility information database.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a data structure of a virtual facility information database.

FIG. 7 is a processing flow of physical facility reservation processing and virtual facility registration.

FIG. 8 is a flow of a reservation process for searching for physical facilities and virtual facilities.

FIG. 9 is a reservation processing flow using a confidentiality management table.

FIG. 10 is a process flow showing a facility information reference process.

[Explanation of symbols]

101, 102: client terminals 103: Schedule management system 104: Reservation processing unit for accommodation capacity changing facility 105: Security management table 106: Physical Facility Information Database 107: Virtual facility information database 108: Reservation data 109: Facility information reference request data 110: reservation transmission / reception unit 111: Facility information transmitting / receiving unit 112: Reservation / reference execution unit 113: Confidentiality check section 114: Facility Information Management Department

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Tetsuhiko Mori             Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1-6-27 Shinsuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo             Hitachi, Ltd. Public Systems Division (72) Inventor Katsuhiro Oue             Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1-6-27 Shinsuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo             Hitachi, Ltd. Public Systems Division

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. Receiving means for receiving reservation data including reservation and facility conditions, and physical facility conditions stored in physical facility information recording means based on the reservation data or virtual facilities stored in virtual facility information recording means. A facility information management means for selecting a facility by matching the conditions of the facility data with the conditions of the reservation data, and a reservation execution means for inputting information of the facility selected by the facility information management means and executing a reservation execution process. Schedule management system characterized by. 2. The security management device according to claim 1, further comprising a confidentiality management unit that manages an access right to the facility of the reservation user, and the confidentiality management unit reserves information about whether the access right is set for the selected facility. A schedule management system characterized by outputting to an executing means. 3. The facility information management means according to claim 1, wherein the facility information management means registers the virtual facility in the virtual facility information recording means when the accommodation capacity of the facility that has made the reservation is large and the facility can be registered as the virtual facility. A schedule management system characterized by: 4. A facility information receiving means for receiving facility information reference request data for requesting reference of facility reservation, and a physical facility condition or virtual facility information record stored in the physical facility information recording means based on the reservation data. In response to a facility information reference request by inputting facility information management means for selecting a facility by collating the conditions of the virtual facility stored in the means with the conditions of the reservation data and the information of the facility selected by the facility information management means And a facility information transmitting means for transmitting information on the established facility. 5. The security management device according to claim 4, further comprising a confidentiality management unit for managing access right to the facility of the reservation user, and it is determined that the access right is set for the facility selected by the confidentiality management unit. In this case, the schedule management system is characterized by outputting facility information from the facility information transmitting means.