JPH0736797A - Information display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To confirm an electric mail and operation before opening all members in the specific group in the organization without logon and to enable high-speed processing by allowing an organization management means to manage members and groups and displaying the specific component on the list. CONSTITUTION:Information on all organizations and members which are managed by a mail server 21a and information whether or not the mail and work for each member is arrived are stored in an organization management table 39. An organization management part 36 at the side of the mail server 21a according to the inquiry from a terminal 24a reads out information on the members who belong to the display group and information on the sub group at the lower part. The read information is sent to the terminal 24a and the window displayed on a display 15a of the terminal 24a is displayed at all times when the user does not perform logon. Thus, anyone can confirm quickly whether the mail or work is arrived or not.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information display device which handles images as information and also handles electronic mails.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In offices, OA (office automation) is progressing and each OA device is connected by a LAN (local area network). In particular, personal computers (personal computers) and the like are also connected to each other via a LAN to send and receive data. For example, software such as electronic mail is used in which information is created by an editor or the like on one personal computer and the information is sent to another personal computer or the like. In such electronic mail, a user is registered in a server or the like, and information is managed for each registered user.

Further, sophisticated software is built on these LAN systems. For example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-2
Japanese Patent No. 78458 discloses an "electronic document approval system". The system shown is a system that supports document creation in the office, distributes this document to each user, and prompts each user to input whether or not to approve it. In this system, each user has a terminal (PC)
This system can be used by logging on from (notifying the start of use of the time-sharing system from the terminal; logging in). In this system, each user can be identified and a document distributed to each user can be opened, and a document requiring approval can be approved.

[0004]

Conventionally, each system manages information in accordance with a user who is logged on from a terminal (notifying that the terminal has started to use the time-sharing system). Therefore, when the user logs on from the terminal, it can be confirmed for the first time whether or not the document is distributed to the user. In such a case, if the user is not logged on to the system, it is not possible to confirm whether the document is distributed to the user.
Generally, the user is not necessarily logged on to the system all day long. If the user is doing other work, it is difficult to check whether there is a distributed document.

In addition, there is an office where one terminal is not shared by each user but a plurality of users share one terminal.
Even in such a case, it is extremely difficult to confirm to whom the document is distributed.

As described above, the conventional system has a problem that it is difficult to confirm the distribution of the document to each user, and it is not possible to quickly process the document and the business. The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and enables confirmation of e-mail and business before opening of all members in a specific group in an organization without logging on, and prompt information can be promptly processed. An object is to provide a display device.

[0007]

An information display device according to the present invention comprises an organization management means for managing constituent personnel and groups,
List display means for displaying only a specific configuration from the configuration managed by the organization management means, information management for handling information for managing information on electronic mails and electronic requested work of members managed by the organization management means And a means for displaying information on the information management means on the list displayed on the list display means.

The information display device according to the present invention comprises an organization management means for managing the constituent personnel and the group, a list display means for displaying only a specific configuration among the configurations managed by the organization management means, and the organization management means. Information management means that handles information that manages e-mails and electronic requested work information of managed members, suppression means that suppresses the display of this information for each member, and constituent personnel that are not suppressed by this suppression means The information display means for displaying the information of the information management means on the list displayed on the list display means.

The information display device according to the present invention is an organization management means for managing configuration personnel and groups, a list display means for displaying only a specific configuration from the configurations managed by the organization management means on a display, the above-mentioned organization. Information management means for handling the information for managing the e-mails and electronic requested work information of the members managed by the management means, and the information display for displaying the information of this information management means on the list displayed by the list display means. And means for re-displaying the information displayed on the information display means and the list display means at different coordinates on the display at regular intervals.

The information display device of the present invention is a mail server that manages electronic mails and electronic requested work information of members managed in an organization, a terminal that receives and displays information of this mail server, From the group setting means for setting a specific group in the organization, the group information set by the group setting means of this terminal, extracting all the information in the group and transmitting to the terminal, and this organization management means It consists of means for receiving information and displaying on the screen all information in this group.

[0011]

The present invention manages the constituent personnel and the group by the organization managing means, displays only the specific composition from the managed composition in the list display means, and displays the members managed by the organization managing means. Information for managing information on electronic mail and electronically requested work is handled, and this information is displayed on the list displayed by the list display means.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 3 shows an image processing system having the information display device of the present invention, in which a plurality of image processing devices (nodes) 1a, 1b, 1c, ... Are connected via a communication line 30 such as a LAN.

The image processing devices 1a, ... Are devices for processing and accumulating images and other information therein. The image processing apparatus 1a has a central control processing unit (CPU) therein, as shown in FIG. This CPU3
Controls the entire image processing apparatus 1a. In this image processing apparatus 1a, the CPU 3 is connected with a first interface 4, a main memory 5, a page memory 6, a display memory 7, an image processing unit 8, a second interface 9 and a communication interface 10 via a system bus 11. ing.

The system bus 11 transmits information between the above devices and the CPU 3. A keyboard 12, a mouse 13, and a magnetic disk device 14 are connected to the first interface 4. The first interface 4 mainly controls the input / output of devices related to the man-machine interface. The first interface 4 transfers information input from the keyboard 12, mouse 13 and magnetic disk device 14 to the system bus 1 described above.
Send to 1.

The information sent from the system bus 11 is sent to each keyboard 12, mouse 13 and magnetic disk device 14. Further, the main memory 5 stores programs and data for controlling the image processing apparatus 1, data used temporarily, and the like. Page memory 6
The data such as the image handled by the image processing apparatus 1 is temporarily stored in. A display device 15 such as a CRT is connected to the display memory 7, and data to be displayed on the display device 15 is stored therein.

The image processing section 8 is a section for performing image processing such as encoding, decoding, linear density conversion, enlargement and reduction of image data handled by the page memory 6 and the display memory 7. An optical disk driver 17, a scanner 18, and a printer 19 that drive the optical disk 16 are connected to the second interface 9. This second
The interface 9 mainly controls input / output of image information.

The communication interface 10 controls transmission / reception of communication signals to / from the communication line 2. The main memory 5, page memory 6, display memory 7, image processing unit 8, second interface 9, and communication interface 10 that handle images are connected via an image bus 20. The image bus 20 transmits the image information of each layer replacement. Since the image information is usually enormous, transmission / reception via the system bus 11 causes congestion of the system bus 11. Therefore, in order to transmit image information efficiently,
An image bus 20 is provided. The image bus 20 has a bit width wider than that of the system bus 11 for strengthening.

The other image processing apparatuses 1b, ... Have the same structure as the image processing apparatus 1a. Thereafter, "a" is added to each part of the image processing apparatus 1a such as an optical disk 16a, and "b" is added to each part of the image processing apparatus 1b such as an optical disk 16b.
An explanation will be given by adding "c" to each part of c such as an optical disc 16c.

The image processing apparatuses 1a, ... As an example, the operating system U is a multi-user, multi-tasking OS (operation system) U.
NIX (ATT trademark) is used. In addition, the communication line 2 uses Ethernet (trademark of Xerox Co., Ltd.)
It uses the CP / IP protocol.

Next, a software configuration diagram of this image processing system is shown in FIG. In this image processing system, a mail server 1 (21a), a mail server 2 (21b), ... Which are software are operating. The mail server 21a and the other mail servers 21b (21c, ...) L
E-mail is delivered and received via the communication path 30 such as AN. This mail server 21a sends an e-mail addressed to a user registered in itself to another mail server 21b.
Received from (21c, ...) And stored as a file.
Further, the mail addressed to the user registered in the other mail server 21b (21c, ...) Is sent to the other mail server (21c).
c, ...).

The mail server 21a has therein a mail server processing section 22a for executing processing and a table section 23a in which information on users and their organizations, mail management information, and business management information is stored. The work here means a type related to document distribution, and is, for example, a work for managing circulation, simultaneous notification of approval, and the like. The table portion 23a includes
A terminal (24) managed (managed) by the mail server 21a
a, 24b, 24c), as well as data for terminals (24d, ...) Managed by other mail servers 21 ,.

.. (24a, ...) Are connected to the mail server 21a. These terminals 24
.. perform input / output processing with the user using the terminal processing units 25a. Therefore, the terminals 24a, ... Receive and display the organization-related information and the mail content from the mail server 21a. In addition, the user uses this terminal 24a (2
4b, ...) Can be used to send and receive mail. Therefore, the terminals 24a (24b, ...) Have the keyboard 12a (12b, ...) And the mouse 13a (13).
b, ...) Input device and display 15a
(15b, ...) Is managed and controlled.

These mail server 21a and terminal 24a,
... operate on the same image processing device. It can also be operated on different image processing devices. Further, only the terminals 24a (24b, ...) Can be operated by a personal computer, an EWS (engineering workstation) or the like. For this reason, the information communication between the mail server 21 and the terminals 24a, ...

Next, the mail server 21a and the terminal 24
The software configuration inside a is shown in FIG. The mail server 21a and the terminal 24a are connected via the communication path 2. Mail server processing unit 22 of mail server 21a
The a has a communication processing unit 32, a processing request control unit 33, a business management unit 34, a mail management unit 35, and an organization management unit 36. The communication processing unit 32 controls and manages transmission / reception of information to / from the communication path 2. The communication processing unit 32 is connected to the communication path 2 and the processing request control unit 33. Processing request control unit 3
3 analyzes the command sent from the terminal 24,
The business management unit 34, the mail management unit 35, and the organization management unit 36 are caused to perform processing according to the contents. Business management unit 34
Is used by referring to the task management table 37.

The work management unit 34 reads out work information for each work from the work management table 37 and informs the process request control unit 33. The mail management unit 35 also refers to and uses the mail management table 38. The mail management unit 35 reads out information about the mails sent and received by the mail server 21 from the mail management table 38 and informs the processing request control unit 33.

The organization management unit 36 also refers to and uses the organization management table 39. The organization management table 39 reads out information about the organization and its members who use the mail server 21a from the organization management table 39 and informs the processing request control unit 33.

Next, the terminal 24a will be described. The terminal processing unit 25a of the terminal 24a has a communication processing unit 40, a processing request issuing unit 41, a display processing unit 42, and an input processing unit 43. The communication processing unit 40 controls and manages transmission / reception of information to / from the communication path 2. The communication processing unit 40 is connected to the communication path 2 and the processing request issuing unit 41.

The terminal 24a has a display processing unit 42,
A command for requesting processing to the mail server 21a is created in accordance with the operation of the input processing unit 43, and the command is sent to the communication processing unit 40.
To the communication processing unit 4 from the mail server 21a.
The information sent via 0 is passed to the display processing unit 42.

Further, the display processing unit 42 is the mail server 21.
The display of various information is controlled according to the information sent from a. Therefore, the display processing unit 42 refers to the list-displaying organization management table 44 in which organization information is temporarily stored in order to display the organization and its members. Further, the display processing unit 42 refers to the display target group name table 45 which temporarily stores information on which part of the organization is currently displayed. The list-displaying organization management table 44 partially stores the organization information corresponding to the organization management table 39 of the mail server 21a to the display target group name table 45 of the terminal 24a.

That is, the organization management table 39 of the mail server 21a stores information on all organizations and members managed by the mail server 21a. Also,
A part of the organization management table 39 necessary for displaying is stored in the organization management table 44 during list display of the terminal 24a.

The input processing section 43 is the keyboard 1
In response to an input from an input / output device such as 2a or mouse 13a, a command creation request is transmitted to the processing request issuing unit 41. Next, the organization management table 39 stored in the mail server 21a will be described. This organization management table 39 contains the mail server 21a as described above.
Stores information on all organizations managed by and their members. Further, the organization management table 39 also stores mails for each member and information as to whether or not the work has arrived. Therefore, this organization management table 39
Includes item type 51, name 52, arrival display OFF 53,
New Mail 54, New Business 1 (55), New Business 2 (5
6) A field for belonging group 57 is provided.

The item type 51 contains information as to whether the member is a user (individual) or a group. Name 52
If the member is a user (individual), the member name is entered, and if the member is a group, the group name is entered. The arrival display OFF 53 contains information as to whether or not to display it in a window showing an arrival state described later.

That is, the arrival display OFF 53 is "FAL.
If "SE", the arrival status is displayed in the window and "T
If it is "RUE", no display is made. The new mail 54 indicates whether or not there is a mail that the user has not opened. "TRUE" indicates that there is an unopened mail, and "FALSE" indicates that there is no unopened mail. Also,
For a group, it is "TRUE" when the members of the group have unopened mail, and "FALSE" when all the members of the group have no unopened mail.

Next, the new arrival work 1 (55) indicates whether or not there is a work opened like mail. It also indicates whether or not there is an opened business in the new arrival business 2 (56) as well as the mail.

Since two new arrival work columns are provided here, the user can set two types of work. The group name to which the member belongs is entered in the belonging group 57.

In the example of the table 39 in FIG. 4, the member 1 is a user, the arrival of mails and the like is displayed in the window, and there are mail business 1 and business 2 that are not opened. Means belong to the first sales department. Also, the entire organization can be grasped from the belonging group 57 field. An example of the organization here is shown in FIG.
Shown in. Here, the sales headquarters is the highest level group.
And member 1 belongs to the first sales department.

Next, FIG. 6 shows the mail management table 38 of the mail server 21a shown in FIG. The mail management table 38 stores information for managing all mails sent and received by the mail server 21a. This mail management table 38 has a mail ID of 6
It has fields of 1, sender 62, receiver 63, number of pages 64, data storage file name 65, transmission time 66, arrival time 67 and received 68.

The mail ID 61 is the mail server 2
The unique serial number assigned to all the emails handled in 1a is stored. The sender 62 stores the sender name of this mail. The recipient 63 stores the recipient name of this mail. The total number of pages of this mail is stored in the number of pages 64. The email here is the scanner 18a
This is the image information read in. Alternatively, the optical disc 16
It is the image information stored in a. Therefore, the mail has the number of pages of the image information.

The data storage file name 65 stores the file name in which the image information of this mail is actually stored. The transmission time 66 stores the transmission time transmitted by the sender of this mail. The arrival time 67 stores the arrival time at which the recipient of this mail received this mail. The received 68 stores information indicating whether or not this mail has been opened by the recipient. A "T" here indicates that the mail has been opened by the recipient, and a "F" indicates that the mail has not been opened by the recipient. .

Next, FIG. 7 shows the business management table 37 of the mail server 21a shown in FIG. The business management table 37 stores information for managing all the business transmitted and received by the mail server 21a. The business management table 37 includes a business ID 71 and a business type 7
It has fields of 2, # 1 column 73, # column 74, # 1ast column 75, data storage file name 76, business name 77, and progress status 78.

For the business ID 71, this mail server 21
It stores the unique serial number assigned to all the tasks handled in a. The business type 72 stores the type of business. Here, circulation, approval, and simultaneous notification are entered in this field. In circulation, this document is circulated among circulation members in sequence. As with the circulation, the members are sequentially passed among the members in the approval, but when each person opens the package, the user inputs the approval or disapproval with this content. This notification will be distributed to all members at once. In addition, although a plurality of members are designated in such a work, each of the plurality of members is stored in the # 1 column 73 to the # 1ast column 75. Therefore, there are a plurality of # columns 74 so that a certain number of members can be stored.

The data storage file name 76 stores the file name in which the document used in this job is actually stored. The business name 77 contains the name of this business. This name can be entered by the user when setting up this task. The progress status includes the number in the above-mentioned # column for indicating which member is currently processing this work. Here, # 3 indicates that the third member is processing this task.

Next, FIG. 8 shows an image of the terminal 24a shown in FIG. 2 before logon. In this image the display 15a
The window 81 displayed in FIG. This window 81 is always displayed on the terminal except when logged on. The user can specify the member who logs on from this screen. In this window, you can see who has received the email and who has received the work.

In this window 81, a display target group name area 82, members and group areas 83, 84,
85, 86, 87, 88, icon display area 89 for displaying mail and business icons, upper group button 9
0, a terminal end button 91, and an icon as a cursor arrow (current icon) 92.

In this example, the display target group is one sales department. In the display target group name area 82, the name of the group currently being displayed is displayed. The members of this group are members and group areas 83, 8
4,85,86,87,88. Here, Member 1 (83), Member 2 (84), Member 3
(85), Member 4 (86) is a member, and as a lower group of this Sales Department 1, Sub Group 1 (87),
There is subgroup 2 (88).

Group display marks (93) and (94) as group identification marks are also displayed on the subgroup 1 (87) and the subgroup 2 (88).
This member and group 83, 84, 85, 86, 8
Reference numerals 7 and 88 are buttons. Members (83) (84)
(85) and (86) can be selected. When the sub group (87) or (88) is selected, the display of this window 81 is changed to that of the sub group. Therefore, the display target group name 82 is displayed with its subgroup,
Each member 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 is also changed to a member of the sub-groove.

When the upper group button 90 is selected, the display of this window 81 is changed to the display of the upper group. Therefore, the upper group is displayed in the display target group 82, and each member 8
3, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 are also changed to be members of each group. The terminal end button 91 is provided to instruct the end of this terminal program,
When this is selected, this program ends.

Next, the icon display area 89 will be described. Mail (arrival) icons 101 and 1 are displayed in this area.
02, 103 and business (arrival) icons 104, 10
5, 106, 107, 108 and 109 are displayed. This icon indicates that the mail has been sent to the member, and the mail icon 101, 10 is displayed before opening the mail.
2, 103 are displayed.

Also, the work has reached its members,
When it is before opening, the business icons 104, 10
5, 106, 107, 108 and 109 are displayed. In this example, member 1 (83) has a mail icon 10
1. Business icons 104 and 108 are displayed. Therefore, the member 1 knows that the mail has arrived and has not been opened yet, and that the tasks 1 and 2 have arrived and has not yet been opened. Further, neither the mail icon nor the work icon is displayed on the member 4, and it can be seen that there is no mail or work before opening.

Further, when the display is a group, when a member in the group has a mail before opening and a work, a mail icon or a work icon is displayed in the group. In this example, subgroup 1 (8
Since the mail icon 103 and the business icon 105 are displayed in 7), it can be seen that someone in this group has the mail and business before opening.

The cursor arrow 92 moves among the members in response to the user's input. If you log on as member 1, use this cursor arrow 9
Set 2 to member 1 as shown and select member 1. At this time, the log window 111 is displayed.

This log window 111 is shown in FIG.
In the log window 111, the group display area 11
2, user display area 113, password input area 11
There is 4. When this log window 111 is displayed, the group name is already displayed in the group name display area 112.
The user is displayed in the user display area 113. Logon is performed by inputting a password in the log window 111.

Next, the process until each user of the terminal 24a logs on will be described with reference to a flowchart.
This flowchart is shown in FIG. The power of this terminal 24a is turned on and this terminal program is started (step 0). First, the program of the terminal 24a is initialized, and the display target group to be displayed first is set in the display target group name table 45 (step 1). next,
Regarding this group, the mail server 21 sends e-mails to constituent members and their members, and inquires about the existence of work.
Step a) (step 2). For example, as this inquiry, a user name list, a new mail presence / absence, and a new job presence / absence are inquired every 10 seconds. As shown in FIG. 11, a 2-byte request code “5” and a 32-byte group It is composed of the name "sales part".

The reply to this inquiry is received from the mail server 21a (step 3). For example, this answer is, as shown in FIG. 12, a retry code (2 bytes) “1” as header data, the number of users (4 bytes)
"4", the number of groups (4 bytes) "2", user information, and group information.

The first user information is user ID (4 bytes) "1", presence / absence of display (1 byte) "Y", number of new mails (4 bytes) "1", number of new jobs (4 bytes) " 1 ", user logon name (32 bytes)" member 1 ", user full name (32 bytes)" salesperson 1 ". The other 2nd-4th user information has the same structure.

The group information corresponding to the subgroup 1 is the group ID (4 bytes) "11", the presence / absence of display (1
Byte) "Y", number of new mails (4 bytes) "2",
Number of new jobs (4 bytes) "3", group name (32
Byte) It is composed of "subgroup 1". Group information of other groups has the same structure.

Based on the above answer, the window 81 shown in FIG. 8 is displayed on the display 15a of the terminal 24a (step 4). Then, it waits for the next event (step 5). Here, the event is an event of this window system. Then, an event occurs at this terminal 24a (step 6). It is confirmed whether this event is a scroll (step 7). If it is scrolling, the pointer is updated (step 8).

As a result, the cursor arrow 92 shown in the window 81 of FIG. 8 moves. If it is not scrolling in step 7, then it is confirmed whether it is time-out (step 9). Here, if a certain time has passed since the inquiry to the mail server 21a, the mail is again inquired.

Therefore, new mail and business information are always displayed in the window 81. Next, if it is not timed out in step 9, it is confirmed whether the event is member selection (step 10). If the member is selected, the logon process is performed (step 14). If it is not member selection in step 10, it is confirmed whether it is a group instruction (step 11).

When a new group is designated, the new group name is displayed in the display target group name table 45.
(Step 13), and the process returns to step 2 to make an inquiry to the mail server 21a in a new group.
If it is confirmed in step 11 that the event is not a group instruction, it is confirmed whether or not the event ends (step 12). If the end instruction is given here, the process ends (step 15). If not, the process returns to step 5 and waits for the next event.

Next, the logon processing in step 14 will be described with reference to the signal transmission / reception state shown in FIG. That is, the terminal 24a transmits a logon notification (password) to the mail server 21a in a state where all the contents of the log window 111 shown in FIG. 9 are input. The mail server 21a confirms the user according to the logon notification, and sends a connection completion notification to the terminal 24a.

Then, the terminal 24a transmits the received mail list request to the mail server 21a. Mail server 21a
Confirms the received mail in response to the received mail list request, and sends the received mail list notification to the terminal 24a. The terminal 24a selects one of the received received mail list notifications and sends the selection request to the mail server 21a. The mail server 21a sends an acceptance notification to the terminal 24a in response to the selection request. The terminal 24a transmits to the mail server 21a an image attribute information request for requesting the image size and the image attribute information of the photo mode or the character mode according to the received acceptance notification. The mail server 21a transmits the image attribute information as the acceptance notification to the terminal 24a in response to the image attribute information request.

Further, the terminal 24a secures a display area corresponding to the image attribute information, and sends an image transfer request to the mail server 21.
Send to a. The mail server 21a transmits the image to the terminal 24a in response to the image transfer request. As a result, the terminal 24a displays the image from the mail server 21a.

Next, FIG. 14 shows a flowchart of processing on the mail server 21a side in response to an inquiry to the mail server 21a of the terminal 24a shown here. First terminal 2
Confirm whether the inquiry from 4a has been received (step 2)
1). If there is an inquiry, the display target group name can be known in accordance with this inquiry. Therefore, information regarding this group is provided to each business management unit 34, mail management unit 35, and organization management unit 3
Inquire to 6 (step 22).

Here, the organization management section 36 reads out the members of this group. Then, the information for each member is read from the organization management table 39 (step 2).
3). At this time, the information of only the members belonging to the display target group and the sub-groups below it is read. Then, the read information is transmitted to the terminal 24a (step 24). And wait until the next inquiry.

Next, the window 81 displayed on the display 15a of the terminal 24a will be described. The window 81 displayed on the display 15a of the terminal 24a is always displayed when the user is not logged on. With this, it is possible to immediately confirm who has received the email or the work. When the window 81 is always displayed on the same display 15a, screen burning occurs. Therefore, the window 81 is moved on the display 15a. Display examples in this case are shown in FIGS.

First, the window 81 is displayed as shown in FIG. Here, the shaded portion 12 of the display 15a
At 0, the brightness is lowered. Then, when a timeout occurs in the flowchart shown in FIG. 10, the window 8
In order to move the display of 1 to another part, coordinates are randomly generated, and the window 81 is displayed there. FIG. 16 shows an example in which the moved window 81 is displayed on the display 15a. Here again, the shaded area 121 of the display 15a has its brightness reduced.

Further, the display background pattern of the window 81 may be changed at regular intervals by reversing or the like. If the mail server 21a confirms the mail and it is not under its control, it finds a mail server that has the terminal that is the target of the mail under control and sends the mail there. There is.

As described above, the organization management table composed of the constituent personnel and groups is managed by the organization management section, and only the specific configuration is displayed as a list from this managed configuration, and the configuration managed by the organization management section is displayed. The information for managing the e-mail of the member and the information of the electronically requested work is handled, and this information is displayed on the list displayed above.

As a result, it is possible to confirm the e-mail and the business before opening of all the members in the specific group within the organization without logging on, and prompt the prompt processing. In addition, the group composition is displayed in a list, and next to the name (group) of the new mail or unprocessed work that has arrived among the user members and the child groups to which it belongs, the mail or unprocessed work arrival icon is displayed. Is displayed.

When a mail or work arrives at any of the members belonging to a certain group, an icon is displayed next to the group name. The group name and the user name are displayed separately by color or mark (group mark).

In the group configuration list display, the display target group can be changed along the group hierarchy. The user can set the "arrival display OFF" mode (a mode in which only the name is always displayed) of the person.

In order to prevent screen burn-in, a screen saver function is provided which changes the display background pattern and display position at regular intervals. Select the user's name to go to the login screen and select the group name to display the child group structure.

Therefore, by displaying the arrival status as an icon together with the group (organization) structure, the user can grasp the mail and business arrival status without occupying the terminal, and one terminal can be used by a plurality of users. It can be efficiently shared and used.

[0075]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention,
It is possible to confirm the e-mail and the business before opening of all the members in a specific group in the organization without logging on, and it is possible to provide an information display device prompting prompt processing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic software configuration diagram of an information display device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a software configuration diagram showing the software shown in FIG. 1 in more detail.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the information display device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an outline of an organization management table shown in FIG.

5 is a lily diagram showing an example of the organization of the table shown in FIG. 4. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an outline of a mail management table shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an outline of a business management table shown in FIG.

8 is a diagram showing a display example of a window on the display of the terminal shown in FIG.

9 is a diagram showing a log window when the log window is expanded from the window shown in FIG.

10 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the terminal shown in FIG.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining the content of an inquiry from the terminal to the mail server.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining the content of a reply from a mail server to a terminal.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a data transmission / reception state for explaining logon processing.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of a part related to an inquiry of the mail server shown in FIG.

15 is a diagram showing a display example of a window on the display of the terminal shown in FIG.

16 is a diagram showing a display example of a window on the display of the terminal shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21a, ... Mail server 24a, ... Terminal 34 ... Business management unit 35 ... Mail management unit 36 ... Organization management unit 42 ... Display processing unit 37 ... Business management table 38 ... Mail management table 39 ... Organization management table

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takeshi Ogaki 70 Yanagi-cho, Sachi-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Toshiba Yanagimachi Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Shiro Takagi 70, Yanagi-cho, Sachi-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Toshiba Yanagi-machi, Co., Ltd. Within

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An organization management unit for managing constituent personnel and groups, a list display unit for displaying only a specific configuration from the configurations managed by the organization management unit, and a configuration managed by the organization management unit. The information management means for handling the information for managing the staff member's e-mail and the information of the electronic request work, and the information display means for displaying the information of this information management means on the list displayed on the list display means. An information display device characterized by the above. 2. An organization management means for managing constituent personnel and a group, a list display means for displaying only a specific configuration among the configurations managed by the organization management means, and a configuration managed by the organization management means. Information management means that handles information that manages e-mails and electronic requested work information of members, deterrent means that suppresses the display of this information for each member, and the above information of the constituent personnel that is not suppressed by this deterrent means An information display device, comprising: an information display means for displaying information of management means on the list displayed on the list display means. 3. An organization management unit for managing constituent personnel and a group, a list display unit for displaying only a specific configuration on the display among the configurations managed by the organization management unit, and the organization management unit. Information management means for handling information for managing the electronic mails and electronic requested work information of the members, and information display means for displaying the information of this information management means on the list displayed on the list display means, An information display device comprising: a redisplay unit that redisplays the information displayed on the information display unit and the information displayed on the list display unit at different coordinates on the display at regular intervals. 4. A mail server that manages the emails and electronic requested work information of the members managed within the organization, a terminal that receives and displays the information of this mail server, and this terminal identifies the inside of the organization. Group setting means for setting a group, and group management means for receiving the group information set by the group setting means of this terminal, extracting all the information in the group, and transmitting it to the terminal, and receiving information from this organization management means. An information display device comprising: means for displaying all information in this group on a screen.