JPH08194750A - Process control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To take out data at high speed, to reduce the waste of memory capacity and to operate even a small-scaled computer system by managing data at every process and repeating the delivery of data to a next process when the processing of data in the process of a prescribed procedure completes. CONSTITUTION: The process of a series of work is divided by a necessary procedure. A registration means 11 adds the procedure required for the prescribed process to data so as to register it in accordance with the display and input of the procedure on a screen. A shift means 12 transfers data to the next process when the addition of data required for the prescribed process is completed, divides it at every process and sequentially manages data. The process is divided by the procedure required in a series of work from the proposal of a patent to pension management. The registration means 11 adds the procedure required for the prescribed process to data so as to register it in accordance with the display and input of the procedure on the screen. The shift means 12 transfers data to the next process when the addition of data required for the prescribed process completes, divides data at every process and sequentially manages data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a process management system for managing processes. A series of operations, such as researchers, from one process to the next in a company
Patents from developers and other employees (utility models, designs, etc.)
It is desired to manage a series of work from proposal, application, examination request, payment of patent fee, and pension management so that the processing corresponding to the procedure at each stage can be surely performed by a simple system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a computer is used to systematically manage a series of operations from one process to the next in a company, for example, the management of patents, the entire life cycle of a patent is stored in one database. Pay
The procedure part that occurred was input sequentially.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional process management system, since one database centrally manages all processes, for example, the lifecycle of a patent, when performing the process at each step of the procedure. However, when the number of cases to be managed increases (for example, several thousand cases), it is necessary to search and extract the target data from all the data, which causes a problem that it takes a very long time.

When the number of items to be managed increases, a key for performing high-speed search / extraction of target data is created and registered from one database each time. There is a problem that a lot of time is required for creating, registering, and processing therefor, and the system scale becomes very large.

Further, even if a key for high-speed search is registered and high-speed search can be performed using the key, it has the property that it cannot proceed unless a specific procedure is required to proceed from one process to the next process. Since it is not possible to search for desired data without searching with this property as a key, in the conventional system that manages all data with one database, the data is searched with the search condition also as to whether or not the procedure is executed. There is also a problem that the search time for that must be increased.

The present invention solves these problems.
Performing a series of work from one process to the next process in a company, for example, managing a series of work from acceptance of a patent proposal to pension management for each process, and when processing of data of a process of a certain procedure is completed Repeatedly passing the data to the next process to search only the data of each process so that desired data can be searched at high speed, and the data of each process can be minimized to reduce waste of resources, especially memory capacity. It is intended to enable operation even on a large-scale computer system.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] Means for solving the problems will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, a management unit 1 manages a process such as a patent, and includes a registration unit 11 and a transfer unit 12.

The registration means 11 displays a procedure required for a certain process on the screen, and adds it to the data and registers it in response to the input. The transfer means 12 passes the data to the next process when the addition of the data necessary for the certain process is completed.

The employee master 22 has a name and the like registered in advance in association with the employee number.

[0010]

The present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, corresponds to the fact that a series of work is divided into steps according to the required procedure, and the procedure required for the step with the registration means 11 is displayed on the screen and input. Then, the data is added to the data and registered, and when the data required for the process of the transfer means 12 is completed, the data is passed to the next process, divided into each process, and the data is sequentially managed. .

In addition, the process is divided according to the procedure required in a series of operations from the proposal of a patent and the like to the pension management, and the procedure required for the process having the registration means 11 is displayed on the screen and entered. Then, the data is added to the data and registered, and when the data required for the process of the transfer means 12 is completed, the data is passed to the next process, divided into each process, and the data is sequentially managed. .

At this time, an arbitrary procedure for transferring from one process to another process is registered in advance, and the transfer means 12 displays the items of the procedure necessary for the process and inputs them to all the items. Correspondingly, data is passed to the next process.

Further, in a series of operations from the proposal of a patent to the management of annuity, the steps from the acceptance of the proposal of the patent to the application, the application to the examination request, the examination request to the patent assessment, and the patent assessment to the expiration of the pension payment deadline. The data is sequentially managed for each process.

Further, when inputting an individual name in a process, corresponding to the input of the employee number, the individual name or the like is taken out by referring to the employee master and input to prevent erroneous input or discrimination of same-sex same name. I'm trying to do.

Therefore, management is performed for each process required for a series of operations within a company, for example, data from the acceptance of a patent proposal to pension management is managed for each process, and the data of the process of a certain procedure is processed. When it is completed, the process is repeatedly passed to the next process, and only the data of each process is searched so that the desired data can be searched at high speed. It is possible to reduce the number and operate on a small-scale computer system.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the construction and operation of an embodiment of the present invention will be sequentially described in detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, a proposal receiving step 2 is a step of performing a procedure that occurs from the reception of a proposal to the submission of a contact document.

The application process 3 is a process of performing a procedure that occurs from the application request to the completion of the application. The examination request step 4 is
It is a step of performing procedures that occur from application to request for examination. The intermediate processing step 5 is a step of performing a procedure that occurs from the request for examination to the registration of settings.

The pension payment step 6 is a step of performing a procedure that occurs from setting registration to loss of rights. If there is no request for examination, the examination request may be divided in the process up to the procedure corresponding to the system, or it may be included as a whole. In this case, when a certain procedure is performed, the process may be divided at any position of the procedure if the procedure shifts to the next procedure.

Next, the operation of the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described in detail in the order of the flowcharts of FIGS. Figure 2
At S1, the A registration screen is displayed. This displays the A registration screen 21 of FIG. For example, FIG. 4 described later.
A screen like (a) of is displayed.

In step S2, acceptance information is input. This is displayed on the A registration screen 21 of FIG. 1, for example, on the screen of FIG. 4A, the reception key: • Classification: • Inventor: • Others: The administrator key-inputs. At this time, when the inventor is input, the employee number is keyed in, read out from the employee master 22 and the inventor's name is input.

In step S3, registration is performed. This registers the information input from the screen in S2 as the reception information 23 in FIG. In S4, the history is input.

In step S5, the management number and the reception number are input. As described on the right side, this determines whether to proceed to the application or put on hold after performing the processing of the proposal receiving step 2 by the processing of S1 to S4. Here, since it has been decided to shift to the application, the B registration screen 31 of FIG. 1 is displayed, and only the management number, the reception number, etc. of the screen of FIG. Management number: # 1 ・ Reception number: 1 ・ Reception number: 2 ・ Other:

In step S6, application management information is automatically created. This is information necessary for application management as shown in the screen (application management information) of FIG. 4B as application management information in response to the management number, the reception number, etc. being input in S5. Is automatically created.

In step S7, application management information is displayed. As shown in FIG. 4B, this displays the application management information automatically created in S6 on the screen. In S8, history information is input. For example, enter on the right side ・ Application ・ Application number ・ Application reward ・ Other.

In step S9, it is determined whether the application reward has been input.
This is to display the previously registered application reward item in association with the application process 3 on the screen, and determine whether or not the necessary items have been key-entered in this application reward item. If yes,
Proceed to S10. On the other hand, in the case of NO, it is not possible to proceed to the next step (or the next process) unless the entry is made in the preset application reward item, so that the entry in the preset application reward item is forgotten. Never.

In step S10, items are automatically created up to the application management information (examination request) and the request for examination. This is
The necessary items are automatically created and added in the examination request step 4 which is the next step of, for example, the required items are added as shown in the screen (application management information: examination request) of FIG. 5C. Then, the automatically created application management information (examination request) is transferred to 42 in FIG.

In S11, the history is input. This is S10
Automatically create it and display it as shown in the screen in Fig. 5 (c). From this screen, enter the necessary items, for example: -Application publication: -Application publication number: -Final result: -Others: Saved in the history table 43.

In FIG. 3, in step S12, it is determined whether the final result is a request. If it is determined (determined) that the examination request is present, the process proceeds to S13. On the other hand, when it is determined (determined) that there is no request for examination, the file is moved to the save file 7 and saved in S31. As a result, the data without the application examination request is saved in the save file 7, the data that does not need to proceed to the next step is deleted, and the data amount is reduced to the necessary minimum.

In step S13, the application management information (intermediate processing) is moved to. This shifts the application management information to the application management information 52 (intermediate process) when it is found that the examination request is completed in 44 of FIG.

In step S14, an intermediate history item is automatically created.
This is a required item (Fig. 5) in the application management information (intermediate processing).
(See (d)) is automatically created. In S15, the history is input. For this, the information created in S14 is displayed, for example, as in the screen of FIG. 5D, the history is input from this screen, and the information is saved.

In step S16, it is determined whether the decision is refusal. If the decision of refusal is finalized, the application does not need to proceed to the next step, so the result is YES and the process moves to the save file 7 in S32. On the other hand, in the case of NO, since it is necessary to proceed to the next step in which the patent has been granted instead of the rejection, the process proceeds to S17.

In step S17, it is determined whether the reward has been input. This determines whether or not the reward input, which is an item registered in advance in association with the intermediate processing step 5, has been completed. In the case of YES, the process proceeds to the step subsequent to S18 (since it is determined to be registered in 55 of FIG. 1, the process proceeds to the pension payment step 6). On the other hand, NO
In this case, the procedure is not advanced to the next step, and in step S15, the procedure for the procedure is required here, and an item for reward input is displayed to prompt the input.

The step S18 moves to pension payment information (pension payment step 6). In S19, a pension management table is automatically created. Since this was found to be the registration of 55 in FIG. 1, the process proceeds to the pension payment process, and only the data found to be registered is extracted from the application management information (intermediate processing) and copied, and the pension management table is automatically created. The pension history 65 is added (the other application management information 62, the intermediate processing history 64, and the history table 63 are copied from the application management information (intermediate processing)).

In step S20, the pension history is input. The newly entered pension history is entered and saved in the pension history 65 of FIG. 1 created in S19. For example, the screen (annuity management information) of FIG. 6E is displayed, input from this screen and saved.

In step S21, it is determined whether the right has disappeared. In the case of YES, it is saved in the save file 7 in S33 (it is saved in the pension history file 74 in the save file 7 of FIG. 1). On the other hand, if NO, the process returns to S20.

As described above, from the proposal of the patent to the extinction of the right, here, the proposal receiving step 2: From the proposal receiving to the submission of the contact documents, the application step 3: From the application request to the application completion, and the examination request step 4: From application to request for examination ・ Intermediate processing step 5: From request for examination to registration of setting ・ Pension payment step 6: Divide into steps such as setting registration to loss of rights, and perform necessary processing (input etc.) in each step If the process set arbitrarily beforehand (for example, compensation for the inventor at the time of application or registration) is not completed,
We are trying not to move to the next process. As a result, (1) it is sufficient to provide only the items required for the process,
The amount of data can be minimized without the need to store useless information required in other steps.

(2) If an arbitrary item is set in association with a process, a message prompting the user to proceed to the next process and a message for prompting the user to process the item unless the item is processed (for example, reward process). Since it is displayed, you can be sure to execute the procedure for any item without forgetting.

(3) Since the items required for the procedure are automatically generated for each process, the data of all the processes are stored in the database as in the conventional case, and the items of the procedure required for the current process are searched. Since the process of extracting the data is unnecessary, the search processing time can be made extremely short in order to extract the item that requires the procedure in the current process.

(4) It is not necessary to have useless information in the data processed in the current process, the memory capacity can be reduced, and waste of resources can be reduced. FIG. 4 shows a screen example (1) of the present invention.

FIG. 4A shows a screen (acceptance information). This corresponds to the A registration screen 21 in FIG. 1 and is used from the acceptance of a patent proposal to the submission of a contact document.

FIG. 4B shows a screen (application management information). This corresponds to the B registration screen 31 of FIG. 1 and is used from the request of the patent office to the completion of the application to the patent office.

FIG. 5C shows a screen (application management information: examination request). This corresponds to the C registration screen 41 of FIG. 1 and is used from the patent application to the examination request. .

FIG. 5D shows a screen (application management information: intermediate processing). This corresponds to the C2 registration screen 51 of FIG. 1 and is used from the examination request to the setting registration. .

FIG. 6 (e) shows a screen (pension management information). This corresponds to the D registration screen 61 of FIG. 1 and is used from setting registration to loss of rights. .

FIG. 7 shows an example of the employee master screen of the present invention. This is when the proposal is accepted on the A registration screen 21 of FIG.
When entering the inventor's name, enter the employee number by key and correspond to that employee number ・ Name ・ Job title: ・ Title: ・ Others: Read from the employee master and displayed in the sub window . When the administrator who sees this display inputs OK, the entry is made as follows in the field of the proposer (inventor) in FIG.

・ Code column: Employee number ××× ・ Name: Taro Fuji ・ Job system: 1st Development Section, Development Department ・ Title: ・ Equity ratio: ××% (Used when allocating compensation etc.) Above Like this, by taking the employee number as a key and extracting its name, job system, etc. from the employee master and automatically setting it after confirmation, it is possible to prevent erroneous input of the inventor's (proposer's) name. It is now possible to input the employee number without fail even if the same name is used.

In the embodiment of the present application, the patent (invention) has been described, but the invention is not limited to this and can be applied to other things (utility model, design, trademark, etc.), and the proposal receiving step 2 and the application step Although the process is divided into 2, the examination request process 3, the intermediate processing process 4, and the pension payment process 5, the invention is not limited to this, and the process may be separated at any time as long as the procedure is separated. When there is no request for examination, for example, in the case of the current utility model registration, the examination request step 3 and the intermediate processing step 4 may be one step.

[0049]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Divide according to the necessary procedures in a series of operations in a company and manage each process, for example, manage the data from patent proposal acceptance to pension management for each procedure, and process the data of a certain procedure Since the structure that repeats passing to the next process when it is completed is adopted, it is possible to retrieve only the data of each process and retrieve the desired data at high speed, and the data of each process is the minimum necessary. It is possible to reduce waste of resources, especially memory capacity, and to operate even a small-scale computer system. From these, it is sufficient to provide only the items of processing required in step (1),
The amount of data could be minimized without the need to store useless information required in other processes.

(2) If an arbitrary item (for example, payment of a bounty) is set in association with a process, a message prompting the user to proceed to the next process and to process the item unless the item is processed. Is displayed, so you can execute the procedure for any item without forgetting.

(3) Since the items required for the procedure are automatically generated for each process, the data of all the processes are stored in the database as in the conventional case, and the item of the procedure required for the current process is searched. Since the process of extracting the data is unnecessary, the search processing time can be made extremely short in order to extract the item that requires the procedure in the current process.

(4) It is not necessary to have useless information in the data processed in the current process, the memory capacity can be reduced, and waste of resources can be reduced. (4) When entering the name of the proposer (inventor),
By searching the employee master key with the employee code as a key and extracting the relevant name, job system, etc. and entering it, you can prevent mistakes in entering the name, etc., and you can reliably enter even if there are same-sex same names etc. It became so.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart (No. 1) for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart (No. 2) for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a screen example (1) of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a screen example (2) of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a screen example (3) of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an example of an employee master screen of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: Management means 11: Registration means 12: Transition means 2: Proposal acceptance process 21: A registration screen 3: Application process 31: B registration screen 4: Examination request process 41: C registration screen 5: Intermediate processing process 51: C2 registration Screen 6: Pension payment process 61: D registration screen 22: Employee master 7: Saved file

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. In a process management system for managing a process, a process in which a series of work is divided by necessary procedures and a procedure required for a certain process are displayed on a screen, and data corresponding to the input is displayed. It is characterized in that it is provided with a registration means for adding and registering to a process, and a transfer means for transferring to a next process when the addition of data necessary for a certain process is completed, and managing the data sequentially by dividing each process. Process management system. 2. In a process management system for managing patents, etc., the process divided into a series of steps required for a series of operations from proposal of a patent to pension management and the procedure necessary for a certain step are displayed on the screen, Corresponding to the input, registration means for adding and registering to the data, and transfer means for passing to the next step when the addition of the data necessary for a certain step is completed are provided, and each step is divided. A process control system that sequentially manages data. 3. An arbitrary procedure for transitioning from one process to another process is registered in advance, items of procedures required in the process are displayed, and in response to all the items being input. , The data is passed to the next step.
Alternatively, the process control system according to claim 2. 4. The method according to claim 2 or claim, wherein the steps are steps from acceptance of a patent proposal to application, application to examination request, examination request to patent assessment, and patent assessment to expiration of pension payment deadline. Item 3. The process control system according to item 3. 5. An employee master for pre-registering an individual name in association with an employee number is provided, and when the individual name is input in the above process, the employee master is registered in correspondence with the input of the employee number. The process management system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the personal name is extracted and input with reference to prevent erroneous input or distinguish between same-sex homonyms.