JP2005227822A - Electronic meeting room management device, method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic meeting room management device capable of improving convenience of an electronic meeting room. <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of fixed electronic meeting rooms are installed, and this electronic meeting room management device 2 receives reservation information for the installed electronic meeting room from a user. Based on the reservation information for the electronic meeting room, the electronic meeting room management device 2 restricts access to the electronic meeting room. In this way, a user can use the electronic meeting room arranged in a virtual space similarly to that in an actual space. Management of resources such as network bands and the number of licenses can be facilitated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic conference room management apparatus that manages an electronic conference room.

Virtual meeting places (hereinafter collectively referred to as electronic conference rooms) have been provided using computer resources, such as electronic conference rooms, electronic bulletin boards, and chats. Unlike the conference room in the real space, the electronic conference room does not require a physical space and can be provided innumerably.
In addition, when a conference is held in an electronic conference room, it is not necessary to gather at a specific place, which is highly convenient.
Note that Patent Documents 1 to 4 disclose a method for supporting scheduling of a conference held in a real conference room.
JP 2001-216427 A JP-A-7-93421 Special table 2002-529821 gazette JP 7-21262 A

  The present invention has been made from the above-described background, and an object thereof is to provide an electronic conference room management apparatus capable of enhancing the convenience of an electronic conference room.

[Electronic meeting room management device]
In order to achieve the above object, an electronic conference room management apparatus according to the present invention includes a reservation accepting unit that accepts reservation information for an electronic conference room in response to a user request, and reservation information received by the reservation accepting unit. Reservation storage means for storing, and use restriction means for restricting the use of the electronic conference room according to the reservation information stored by the reservation storage means.

  Preferably, there are a plurality of electronic conference rooms, and the reservation reception means prioritizes the reservation information corresponding to these reservations when reservations for at least some of the time zones are requested for the same electronic conference room. The reservation storage unit stores the reservation information in association with the priority order, and the use restricting unit stores the electronic meeting room in accordance with the priority order associated with the reservation information. Permit or prohibit the use of

  Preferably, the reservation information includes a use period for using the electronic conference room and identification information of a prospective participant of the conference held in the electronic conference room, and the use restriction means includes the reservation information in the reservation information. An authentication unit for authenticating a requester requesting the use of the electronic conference room according to the included usage period and the identification information of the prospective participant, and the electronic conference room by the requester according to the authentication result by the authentication unit Restrict use of.

  Preferably, the apparatus further includes information providing means for providing information indicating a reservation status of the electronic conference room based on the reservation information stored in the reservation storage means.

  Preferably, the reservation information includes identification information of a prospective participant of the conference using the electronic conference room, and the same person has the same time based on the reservation information stored in the reservation storage means. A multiplicity determining means for determining the number of conferences participating in parallel with the band, and an information providing means for providing information indicating a status of a prospective participant according to the number of conferences determined by the multiplicity determining means Have.

  Preferably, the multiplexing determination unit is configured so that the same person participates in the same time zone in parallel based on the reservation information stored in the reservation storage unit and the reservation information of the conference room in the real space. The number of conferences in the electronic conference room and the conference room in the real space is determined.

  The electronic conference room management apparatus according to the present invention includes a reservation accepting unit that accepts reservation information for the electronic conference room in response to a user request, and a reservation storage unit that stores the reservation information accepted by the reservation accepting unit; And information providing means for providing information indicating the reservation status of the electronic conference room based on the reservation information stored in the reservation storage means.

  Preferably, the information providing means provides at least a part of the reservation information as a reservation status of the electronic conference room.

[Electronic meeting room management method]
In the electronic meeting room management method according to the present invention, the computer accepts reservation information of the electronic meeting room in response to a user request, the computer stores the received reservation information, and the computer is stored. Restrict the use of the electronic meeting room according to the reservation information.

  In the electronic meeting room management method according to the present invention, the computer accepts reservation information of the electronic meeting room in response to a user request, the computer stores the received reservation information, and the computer is stored. Information indicating the reservation status of the electronic conference room is provided based on the reservation information.

[program]
Further, a program according to the present invention is stored in an electronic conference room management device including a computer, in accordance with a user request, a step of receiving reservation information of the electronic conference room, a step of storing the received reservation information, and The computer of the electronic meeting room management apparatus executes the step of restricting the use of the electronic meeting room according to the reservation information.

  Further, a program according to the present invention is stored in an electronic conference room management device including a computer, in accordance with a user request, a step of receiving reservation information of the electronic conference room, a step of storing the received reservation information, and A step of providing information indicating a reservation status of the electronic conference room based on the reservation information stored in the electronic conference room management apparatus.

  According to the electronic conference room management apparatus of the present invention, a conference using the electronic conference room can be brought close to a conference held in a real conference room, and the convenience of the electronic conference room can be improved.

[background]
In order to understand the present invention, the background of the present invention will be described.
A conference initiator can freely set up an electronic conference room in a virtual space and hold a conference. That is, an infinite number of electronic conference rooms are created for various purposes in various places in the virtual space. Therefore, it is difficult to grasp the electronic conference room itself, resources used in the operation of the electronic conference room (network bandwidth, etc.), schedule and work amount of attendees in the electronic conference room, and electronic It becomes difficult to manage licenses related to the installation of conference rooms.
For those who have never installed an electronic conference room, it is not always easy to install an electronic conference room.

Therefore, the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 according to the present embodiment improves the convenience of the electronic conference room by performing reservation and operation of the electronic conference room in the same manner as the conference room in the real space.
More specifically, for example, the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 installs the electronic conference room in a fixed manner, and reserves and uses the installed electronic conference room by the user. Thereby, even a person who has never installed an electronic conference room can occupy and use the electronic conference room installed in advance. Also, management of resources such as network bandwidth and the number of licenses becomes easy.
In addition, the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 discloses reservation information for the electronic conference room. This facilitates management of conference schedules, schedule management of conference attendees, management of work amounts of conference attendees, and the like.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an outline of a conference room management system 1 to which an electronic conference room management method according to the present invention is applied.
The conference room management system 1 includes an electronic conference room management device 2, a plurality of user terminals 8, and a real space conference room management device 9.
The electronic conference room management apparatus 2 is connected to a plurality of user terminals 8 and a real space conference room management apparatus 9 via a network 7 formed of the Internet or a LAN.
The user terminal 8 is a communication device used by each user (electronic conference room reservation person, electronic conference room user, etc.). For example, the first user terminal 8a is a general-purpose computer, and the second user terminal 8b is a mobile phone capable of displaying an HTML file.
The real space conference room management device 9 is a computer that manages conference room reservation in the real space, and registers, edits, or deletes reservation information related to the conference room in the real space in response to a request from the user terminal 8. . The reservation information includes the identification information of the conference room, the scheduled use period in which the conference room is used, the identification information of the reservation person, the contact information of the reservation person, and the like.

  The electronic conference room management device 2 is a computer that manages reservations for electronic conference rooms, and registers, edits, or deletes reservation information related to electronic conference rooms in response to requests from the user terminal 8. The electronic meeting room includes an electronic bulletin board.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 according to the present invention.
As illustrated in FIG. 2, the electronic conference room management device 2 is a general-purpose computer terminal (for example, a server terminal), a monitor 22 such as an LCD display device or a CRT display device, an input device 24 such as a keyboard and a pointing device, The processing unit 26 includes a CPU 262 and a memory 264, a recording device 28 such as an HDD / CD device, and a communication device 29. The communication device 29 realizes multimedia communication using a Web function, an e-mail function, or the like. The electronic conference room management apparatus 2 of this example is connected to the network 7 (FIG. 1) via the communication apparatus 29.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of the electronic conference room management program 5 which is executed by the processing device 26 (FIG. 2) and realizes the electronic conference room management method according to the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 3, the electronic conference room management program 5 includes a reservation receiving unit 510, a reservation information acquisition unit 520, a reservation database (reservation DB) 530, a use restriction unit 540, an authentication unit 550, an electronic conference room operation unit 560, A multiplicity determining unit 570 and an information providing unit 580 are included.
The electronic conference room management program 5 is supplied to the processing device 26 via, for example, the recording medium 280 (FIG. 2), loaded into the memory 264, and executed.

  In the electronic conference room management program 5, the reservation reception unit 510 (FIG. 3) receives and receives the electronic conference room reservation information from the user terminal 8 (FIG. 1) via the communication device 29 (FIG. 2). The electronic conference room reservation information is output to the reservation DB 530.

  The reservation information acquisition unit 520 (FIG. 3) accesses the real space conference room management device 9 (FIG. 1) via the communication device 29 (FIG. 2), and acquires and acquires conference room reservation information in the real space. The reservation information of the real space conference room that has been made is output to the reservation DB 530.

The reservation DB 530 stores the electronic conference room reservation information input from the reservation reception unit 510 in association with reservation identification information (reservation ID). Note that the reservation DB 530 stores these reservation information in association with priorities when a plurality of reservation information having at least some overlapping periods is input for the same electronic conference room. For example, the reservation DB 530 gives priority to reservation information with overlapping periods for the same electronic conference room according to the order of input. Thereby, the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 enables waiting for cancellation of the electronic conference room.
In addition, the reservation DB 530 stores reservation information of the real space conference room input from the reservation information acquisition unit 520.

  The use restriction unit 540 restricts the use of the electronic conference room installed by the electronic conference room operation unit 560 according to the reservation information of the electronic conference room stored in the reservation DB 530. More specifically, the use restriction unit 540 allows the reserved user to enter the electronic conference room during a period according to the reservation information of the electronic conference room (a predetermined period centering on the scheduled use period). However, the entry of other users during this period is prohibited.

  Further, the usage restriction unit 540 includes an authentication unit 550. The authentication unit 550 authenticates the user who wants to access each electronic conference room based on the reservation information of the electronic conference room (specifically, the conference room ID, the scheduled use period, the scheduled participants, etc.) The authentication result is output to the use restriction unit 540. The use restriction unit 540 permits the user to access the electronic conference room on the condition that the authentication unit 550 succeeds in the authentication.

The electronic conference room operation unit 560 permanently installs an electronic conference room, and restricts access to the electronic conference room according to the control from the use restriction unit 540. Here, “fixed” means that the access position (such as URL) or name is constant, the number of electronic conference rooms is constant, and the number of users who can access each electronic conference room at the same time. It means at least one of being constant.
For example, the electronic conference room operation unit 560 installs the number of electronic conference rooms according to the number of licenses, and permits access by the number of people according to the licenses. In addition, the electronic conference room operation unit 560 may install as many electronic conference rooms as the number corresponding to the resources (storage area, network line bandwidth, etc.) allocated to the operation of the electronic conference room.

  Based on the reservation information of the electronic conference room and the reservation information of the real space conference room stored in the reservation DB 530, the multiplicity determination unit 570 determines the number of conferences in which the same person participates at the same time (conferences and actual And an evaluation value obtained by multiplying the determined number of meetings by an evaluation coefficient corresponding to each meeting is output to the information providing unit 580. .

The information providing unit 580 transmits the reservation information of the electronic conference room stored in the reservation DB 530 to the user terminal 8. Thereby, the user can confirm the reservation status of the electronic conference room and the conference schedule by the user terminal 8.
In addition, the information providing unit 580 transmits the evaluation value input from the multiplicity determining unit 570 to the user terminal 8. This evaluation value is information indicating the participation status of each individual in the conference, and the user knows the busyness of each prospective participant by distributing the conference participation status to the user terminal 8. be able to.

FIG. 4 is a diagram exemplifying reservation information for the electronic conference room stored in the reservation DB 530.
As illustrated in FIG. 4, the reservation DB 530 includes “reservation ID”, “electronic conference room”, “expected usage period”, “reserver”, “reserver contact”, “reservation information” as reservation information of the electronic conference room. The “participant”, “observer”, “conference name”, and “reservation status” are stored.
“Reservation ID” is information for identifying each reservation, and is, for example, a serial number assigned in the input order of reservation information. The “electronic conference room” is identification information (conference room ID) of the electronic conference room to be reserved, for example, the conference room ID of the electronic conference room fixedly installed by the electronic conference room operation unit 560. . “Scheduled use period” is a scheduled use period of the electronic conference room, and is specified by a date, a time zone, and the like. “Reservation person” is identification information (user ID) of a reservation person who inputted reservation information. “Reserver contact information” is the contact information of the reservation person, for example, the mail address of the reservation person.

The “participant” is further associated with at least one set of “participant #n”, “password #n”, and “participant contact #n” (n is a natural number). “Scheduled participant #n” is identification information (user ID) of a user who participates in the conference in the reserved electronic conference room (that is, a prospective participant), and may include identification information of the reservation person. is there. "Password #n" is a password for authenticating this prospective participant. “Participant contact #n” is a contact information of the prospective participant, for example, an email address of the prospective participant.
“Observer” is associated with “observer #n”, “password #n”, and “observer contact #n” (n is a natural number) in the same manner as “participant”.
The use restriction unit 540 allows a user who is scheduled to participate in a speech act (such as writing) during the conference, and prohibits a speech act for a user who is an observer but permits a browsing act.

  “Conference name” is the name of the conference held in the reserved electronic conference room, and is input to notify the prospective participants and third parties of the content of the conference. “Reservation status” is information indicating the priority order of reservation information. The reservation information DB 530 gives priority to the input order when a plurality of reservation information having the same period is input for the same electronic conference room. However, if the upper reservation information is deleted, the reservation information DB 530 Also, the priority of the lower order reservation information is raised in order.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating authentication information stored in the authentication unit 550.
As illustrated in FIG. 5, the authentication unit 550 associates the conference room ID of the reserved electronic conference room with the reserved scheduled use period and the user ID and password of each prospective participant and each observer. Remember. When any electronic meeting room is accessed, the authentication unit 550 authenticates the user who has accessed the electronic meeting room by using the user ID and password corresponding to the meeting room ID and access time of the electronic meeting room. To do.

[Overall operation]
Next, the operation of the conference room management system 1 will be described.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation (S10) of the conference room management system 1 when an electronic conference room is reserved.
As shown in FIG. 6, in step 100 (S100), the reservation person operates his / her user terminal 8 (FIG. 1) to transmit reservation information for the electronic conference room to the electronic conference room management apparatus 2.
The reservation reception unit 510 (FIG. 3) of the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 stores the electronic conference room reservation information received from the user terminal 8 in the reservation DB 530.

In step 110 (S110), when the information providing unit 580 (FIG. 3) detects that the reservation information of the electronic conference room is added to the reservation DB 530, the added reservation information (the electronic conference room to be reserved and the reservation information) The reservation status (presence / absence of prior agreement with overlapping time zones and priority of own reservation) is transmitted to the user terminal 8 of the reservation person.
The reservation user terminal 8 displays the reservation status received from the information providing unit 580.

In step 120 (S120), the reservation person looks at the reservation status displayed on the user terminal 8, determines whether or not to register the reservation information, and operates the user terminal 8 to change the reservation information. Instruct whether or not to register.
The reservation receiving unit 510 (FIG. 3) receives an instruction from the user terminal 8 as to whether or not to register reservation information.
When the electronic conference room management program 5 receives an instruction to register reservation information, the electronic conference room management program 5 proceeds to the process of S130, and receives an instruction to register no reservation information. ) Ends.

  In step 130 (S130), the reservation DB 530 stores the input reservation information of the electronic conference room in association with the priority order as the main registration.

  In step 140 (S140), when the authentication unit 550 (FIG. 3) detects that the reservation information is fully registered in the reservation DB 530, the authentication unit 550 generates a password for the prospective participants and observers included in the reservation information. And associated with the user ID of the observer.

  In Step 150 (S150), the information providing unit 580 notifies the passwords generated by the authentication unit 550 and the reservation information registered in the reservation DB 530 to the contact information of each prospective participant and each observer by e-mail. .

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining the operation (S20) of the conference room management system 1 when access to the electronic conference room is requested.
As shown in FIG. 7, in step 200 (S200), the user (participant, observer, or other third party) operates the user terminal 8 (FIG. 1) to operate the electronic conference room operation unit. One of the electronic conference rooms installed by 560 is accessed.
When the electronic conference room operation unit 560 (FIG. 3) detects access to the electronic conference room by the user terminal 8, the electronic conference room operation unit 560 outputs the conference room ID of the accessed electronic conference room to the authentication unit 550.

In step 210 (S210), when the conference room ID is input from the electronic conference room operation unit 560, the authentication unit 550 reads authentication information corresponding to the input conference room ID and the current time. Further, the authentication unit 550 requests input of a user ID and a password via the information providing unit 580.
The user operates the user terminal 8 to transmit his / her user ID and password to the authentication unit 550.

In step 220 (S220), the authentication unit 550 authenticates the conference room ID and the current time (the user ID and password of the prospective participant or observer) and the user ID and password received from the user terminal 550. And authenticate this user.
When the authentication succeeds, the electronic conference room management program 5 proceeds to the process of S230. When the authentication fails, the electronic conference room management program 5 prohibits the user from accessing the electronic conference room and performs the access management process (S20). finish.

In step 230 (S230), the usage restriction unit 540 (FIG. 3) reads the priority of the reservation information corresponding to the user ID and password received from the user from the reservation DB 530.
The electronic conference room management program 5 proceeds to the process of S240 when the read priority is the highest, and shifts to the process of S250 when the read priority is other than the highest. .

In step 240 (S240), the use restriction unit 540 (FIG. 3) sets the authority (only browsing is possible or browsing and writing is possible) corresponding to the user ID, and permits entry into the electronic conference room. The electronic conference room operation unit 560 is instructed.
The user can log in to the electronic conference room and can participate in the conference within the set authority.

In step 250 (S250), the use restriction unit 540 (FIG. 3) instructs the electronic conference room operation unit 560 to prohibit the user from entering the electronic conference room.
The information providing unit 580 notifies the user to access again when a pre-cancellation has occurred.

In step 260 (S260), the usability reducing unit 540 compares the end of the scheduled use period stored in the reservation DB 530 with the current time, and determines whether the scheduled use period has ended.
When the scheduled use period ends, the electronic conference room management program 5 proceeds to the process of S270, and waits until the scheduled use period ends when the scheduled use period has not ended.

In step 270 (S270), the use restriction unit 540 instructs the electronic conference room operation unit 560 to display a message prompting the user to leave or reserve the electronic conference room in the electronic conference room.
In step 280 (S280), even if a predetermined period (for example, 10 minutes) elapses from the scheduled use period, the use restriction unit 540 does not leave the electronic conference room or perform reservation registration for this electronic conference room. In this case, the electronic conference room operation unit 560 is instructed to forcibly log out.
The electronic conference room operation unit 560 forcibly logs out the user who has logged in to the electronic conference room according to the control of the use restriction unit 540.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a reservation management window 800 displayed on the user terminal 8.
As illustrated in FIG. 8, the user terminal 8 displays a reservation management window 800 indicating a reservation status based on the HTML file received from the information providing unit 580.
The reservation management window 800 displays a plurality of conference room icons 810 corresponding to a plurality of electronic conference rooms fixedly installed by the electronic conference room operation unit 560 (FIG. 3).
The reservation management window 800 of this example shows a reservation situation when 14:00 to 16:00 on February 19, 2004 is designated. Specifically, the conference room icon 810e corresponding to “Conference room E” and the conference room icon 810g corresponding to “Conference room G” are displayed in different display modes from the other conference room icons 810a and the like. This indicates that “conference room E” and “conference room G” have been reserved, and other “conference room A” and the like have not been reserved.
When the current time is designated by the user, the information providing unit 580 displays the current usage status of the electronic conference room on the reservation management window 800 using the conference room icon 810. That is, when an arbitrary time is designated by the user, the information providing unit 580 responds to the future usage status (ie, reservation status), current usage status, and past usage of the electronic conference room accordingly. The situation (that is, usage history) is notified by changing the display mode of the conference room icon 810.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a reservation management window 800 on which reservation information is displayed. Note that, among the display elements in the figure, the same reference numerals are given to substantially the same elements as those shown in FIG.
As illustrated in FIG. 9, when any conference room icon 810 (in this example, the conference room icon 810 e) is selected in the reservation management window 800, the information providing unit 580 responds to the conference room icon 810. The reservation information of the electronic conference room to be read is read from the reservation DB 530 (FIG. 3), and the read reservation information is displayed in the reservation information display area 820. This reservation information display area 820 is associated with the selected conference room icon 810 (in this example, the conference room icon 810e), and displays reservation information that overlaps with the period specified by the user.
The prospective participant and the observer can confirm their own conference schedule with reference to the reservation information displayed in the reservation information display area 820. In addition, the reservation person can negotiate cancellation by referring to the reservation information displayed in the reservation information display area 820 and checking the contact information of the reservation person who has made a reservation.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a reservation management window 800 when an electronic conference room is accessed. Note that, among the display elements in the figure, the same reference numerals are given to substantially the same elements as those shown in FIG.
In the reservation management window 800, the user selects one of the conference room icons 810 (in this example, the conference room icon 810e) and requests access to the “conference room E”.
The authentication unit 550 causes the reservation management window 800 to display a password input area 830 that prompts the user to input a user ID (“user ID”) and a password according to the user's access. The password input area 830 is associated with the selected conference room icon 810 and accepts input of a user ID and password.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a reservation management window 800 that displays the participation status of the conference by each participant.
As illustrated in FIG. 11, when the user ID and the period are specified, the information providing unit 580 displays a participation status graph 840 indicating the participation status of the user in the specified period in the reservation management window. 800. The participation situation graph 840 is a graph in which the horizontal axis represents time and the vertical axis represents multiplicity (that is, the evaluation value determined by the multiplicity determination unit 570). In the participation status graph 840, the number of conferences held in the real space conference room and the number of conferences held in the electronic conference room are displayed in a display mode that can be distinguished from each other. Also, in the participation status graph 840, the position on the horizontal axis corresponding to the current time is displayed by a one-dot chain line.
That is, when the target person (user ID) indicating the participation status and the target period (in this example, the date) are designated by the user, the multiplicity determining unit 570 has the electronic conference room stored in the reservation DB 530. The conference (the electronic conference room and the real space conference room) in which the designated target person is registered as a prospective participant (or observer) in the designated period with reference to the reservation information and the real space conference room reservation information (Conference made in both) is extracted, and an evaluation value (multiplicity) is calculated by multiplying the extracted meeting by an evaluation coefficient (in this example, both are 1) and adding up. The evaluation coefficient may be different depending on whether the participant is a prospective participant or an observer, or may be different depending on whether the conference is an electronic conference room or a real space conference room.

As described above, the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 in the present embodiment fixedly installs a plurality of electronic conference rooms, and reserves and uses the installed electronic conference rooms by the user. Thereby, even a person who has never installed an electronic conference room can occupy and use the electronic conference room installed in advance. Also, management of resources such as network bandwidth and the number of licenses becomes easy.
In addition, the electronic conference room management device 2 publishes reservation information (such as names of participants and observers, names of conferences, and contact information of the reservation person) of the electronic conference room. This facilitates management of conference schedules, schedule management of conference attendees, management of work amounts of conference attendees, and the like.
The electronic conference room management apparatus 2 calculates and provides the participation status (multiplicity) of each prospective participant or observer in the conference based on the reservation information of the electronic conference room and the real space conference room. This facilitates the management of the work amount of the attendees.

It is a figure explaining the outline of the meeting room management system 1 with which the electronic meeting room management method concerning this invention is applied. It is a figure which illustrates the hardware constitutions of the electronic conference room management apparatus 2 concerning this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the electronic meeting room management program 5 which is performed by the processing apparatus 26 (FIG. 2), and implement | achieves the electronic meeting room management method concerning this invention. It is a figure which illustrates the reservation information of the electronic conference room memorize | stored in reservation DB530. 5 is a diagram illustrating authentication information stored in an authentication unit 550. FIG. It is a flowchart explaining operation | movement (S10) of the conference room management system 1 at the time of an electronic conference room reservation. It is a flowchart explaining operation | movement (S20) of the conference room management system 1 when access to an electronic conference room is requested | required. It is a figure which illustrates the reservation management window 800 displayed on the user terminal. It is a figure which illustrates the reservation management window 800 on which reservation information was displayed. It is a figure which illustrates the reservation management window 800 when accessing an electronic conference room. It is a figure which illustrates the reservation management window 800 which displays the participation condition of the meeting by each participant.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Conference room management system 2 ... Electronic meeting room management device 22 ... Monitor 24 ... Input device 26 ... Processing device 262 ... CPU
264 ... Memory 28 ... Recording device 280 ... Recording medium 29 ... Communication device 5 ... Electronic conference room management program 510 ... Reservation acceptance unit 520 ... Reservation information acquisition unit 530 ...・ Reservation database 540 ... Usage restriction unit 550 ... Authentication unit 560 ... Electronic conference room operation unit 570 ... Multiplicity determination unit 580 ... Information providing unit 9 ... Real space conference room management device

Claims (12)

Reservation accepting means for accepting reservation information of the electronic conference room in response to a user request;
Reservation storage means for storing reservation information received by the reservation receiving means;
An electronic conference room management apparatus comprising: usage restriction means for restricting use of the electronic conference room according to the reservation information stored by the reservation storage means. There are several electronic conference rooms.
The reservation accepting means accepts a reservation in which priority is associated with reservation information corresponding to these reservations when a reservation in which at least some of the time zones overlap is requested for the same electronic conference room,
The reservation storage means stores the reservation information in association with the priority order,
The electronic meeting room management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the use restriction unit permits or prohibits use of the electronic meeting room according to a priority order associated with reservation information. The reservation information includes the period of use of the electronic meeting room and the identification information of the prospective participants of the meeting held in this electronic meeting room.
The usage restriction means is
Including authentication means for authenticating a requester who requests use of the electronic conference room according to the use period included in the reservation information and the identification information of the prospective participant,
The electronic meeting room management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein use of the electronic meeting room by the requester is restricted according to an authentication result by the authentication unit. The electronic conference room management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising information providing means for providing information indicating a reservation status of the electronic conference room based on reservation information stored in the reservation storage means. The reservation information includes the identification information of the prospective participants of the conference using the electronic conference room.
Multiplicity determination means for determining the number of conferences in which the same person participates in parallel in the same time zone based on reservation information stored in the reservation storage means;
According to the number of meetings determined by the multiplicity determining means, information providing means for providing information indicating the status of prospective participants;
The electronic conference room management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: The multiplexing determination means is based on the reservation information stored in the reservation storage means and the reservation information of the meeting room in the real space, and the electronic conference room in which the same person participates in parallel in the same time zone and The electronic meeting room management apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the number of meetings in a meeting room in a real space is determined. Reservation accepting means for accepting reservation information of the electronic conference room in response to a user request;
Reservation storage means for storing reservation information received by the reservation receiving means;
An electronic conference room management apparatus comprising: information providing means for providing information indicating a reservation status of the electronic conference room based on reservation information stored in the reservation storage means. The electronic conference room management apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the information providing unit provides at least a part of reservation information as a reservation status of the electronic conference room. The computer accepts reservation information for the electronic meeting room at the request of the user,
The computer stores the received reservation information,
An electronic conference room management method in which a computer restricts the use of an electronic conference room according to stored reservation information. The computer accepts reservation information for the electronic meeting room at the request of the user,
The computer stores the received reservation information,
An electronic conference room management method in which a computer provides information indicating a reservation status of an electronic conference room based on stored reservation information. In an electronic conference room management device including a computer,
Accepting electronic conference room reservation information in response to a user request;
Storing the received reservation information;
A program for causing the computer of the electronic conference room management apparatus to execute the step of restricting the use of the electronic conference room according to the stored reservation information. In an electronic conference room management device including a computer,
Accepting electronic conference room reservation information in response to a user request;
Storing the received reservation information;
A program for causing the computer of the electronic conference room management apparatus to execute a step of providing information indicating a reservation status of the electronic conference room based on the stored reservation information.

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