JPH09307793A - Resource management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assign commercial programs efficiently to each broadcast program by referring to the attribute of the broadcast program and its time frame so as to assign commercial programs to each broadcast program based on the utility condition and its use period of each commercial programs. SOLUTION: CM frame information of programs under the condition according to contract information is displayed on a weekly program table. In a 3-dimension display means, programs are block-displayed on a 2-dimensional plane where the axis of ordinate takes the time and the axis of abscissa takes the day of the week ordate. Moreover, the weekly program table is rewritten and the rewritten table is displayed in the unit of one week by selecting a last-week button 420 or a next-week button 430. The range of display of programs onto the weekly program table is limited only to those with a valid contract period. Moreover, the propriety of programs display is decided depending on the contract condition and the program contents. Since only the programs to which commercial programs of active sponsors are assigned are displayed, the assignment is conducted quickly and easily.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a resource management system for efficiently allocating a second resource, which is a commercial of a sponsor, to a first resource, which is a broadcast program. In particular, this resource management system has a limited period and time when the first resource can be supplied, and the usage condition and usage period for the second resource to use the first resource. It is a system for efficiently allocating the first resource and the second resource when is defined.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional resource management system. FIG. 22 is a diagram showing the reservation status of the conference room. The conference rooms A, B, and C are arranged on the vertical axis, and the date is on the horizontal axis. In the example shown in FIG. 22, the conference rooms A, B, and C are resources, and each resource, that is, what kind of customers use the conference room for each conference is managed for each date. It is for.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a studio operation table when a program is assigned to a studio of a broadcasting station. On the vertical axis, Studio ST101, Studio ST102, ...
・ Is displayed. The date and time are displayed on the horizontal axis.
An operation for allocating program recording will be described using such a studio operation table. FIG. 23 is a diagram showing the contents of a window displaying a studio operation table when a broadcast program is produced. In the figure, 300 is a window, 310 is the name of the information displayed in the window, and in this example, shows the "studio operation table". 32
"0" indicates a calendar day, which is "the current day" in this example. Reference numeral 330 is a time axis in which "the day" is divided into time units. Reference numeral 340 represents a studio that produces broadcast programs. In this way, the window 300 takes time on the horizontal axis,
The vertical axis shows the studio and shows the schedule of the studio owned by the broadcasting station on the day.

In the figure, 200 is a line segment.
201 indicates the time “6:30” at the beginning of the line segment,
Reference numeral 202 indicates the end "12:00" of the line segment. 21
0 is a window showing the line segment detail screen, and the line segment 200
Is a screen that displays information associated with. For example, in this example, the program code of the line segment 200 is 25, and the program name is "Ikoi no Ranch". The production date and time are also shown. Further, a group and a person in charge of the broadcast program are displayed. For example, in this example, the group code 50 is assigned, and “Kazuo Yamada” having the employee number 1 is displayed as the person in charge from the group code 50. Also,
Items indicated by “z” and “()” indicate a state in which the person in charge is not yet determined.

When the operator wants to allocate a program to the studio 102, the operator creates a line segment 200 directly on the window 300 using a mouse. To create it, click the cursor at 6:30. At this point in time, the line segment editor (not shown) will move the cursor to 6:30.
Display minutes. The operator can easily determine whether he is pointing to the correct position using the 6:30 display. Next, the operator holds the mouse button and drags it until 12:00. While the operator is dragging the mouse, the time indicated by the cursor is displayed in units of, for example, 10 minutes and 5 minutes in between. At the same time, a line segment is displayed from the point at 6:30 to the point where the cursor is currently located. When the operator releases the mouse button when the cursor points to 12 o'clock, the line segments are displayed as shown in FIG. 23, and the times at both ends of the line segment are displayed.
Next, point the line segment 200 with the cursor and
Select If you select line segment 200, line segment detail screen 2
10 is displayed. The line segment detail screen 210 displays incidental information of this line segment. Alternatively, the detailed information for the line segment 200 is input using the line segment detail screen 210.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional schedule management system. Scheduled processes are displayed on the vertical axis of the process chart shown in FIG. The date is displayed on the horizontal axis. With this process chart, the progress status of each process and the relationship between each process can be visually grasped.

Next, FIG. 25 shows a reservation table for the venue A.
In each of the above-mentioned conventional examples, the horizontal axis represents time and the vertical axis represents a plurality of management targets such as resources or processes. On the other hand, in FIG. 25, the vertical axis shows time,
The date is displayed on the horizontal axis. That is, both the vertical axis and the horizontal axis are time axes. The case shown in FIG. 25 shows a case where one resource called venue A is desired to be managed by date and time.
That is, one reservation table is used to manage one resource at the venue A.

[0008]

The conventional resource management system, as shown in FIGS. 22 to 24, displays a list of a plurality of resources, and reserves or uses each resource along the time axis. It controlled the situation. Alternatively, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the reservation status and the usage status are managed for one resource. In these conventional resource management systems and schedule management systems, it has been impossible to manage two different types of resources in association with each other. The conventional resource management system only manages who is using the conference room or studio, and manages resources when resources such as conference rooms and studios have a simple attribute of providing a venue. It was just that. In some resources, the attributes provided by the resources may change from time to time, or the resources themselves that can be provided may exist for a finite period of time. For example, like a broadcast program,
Broadcast content is diverse and has different audience ratings,
In addition, there are some that have a limited broadcasting period. When a commercial resource from a sponsor is allocated to such a broadcast program resource, it cannot be performed using a conventional simple resource management system.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a resource management system for efficiently allocating a first resource and a second resource. In particular, when the attributes that the first resource can provide change with time, and the usage conditions and usage period for using the first resource of the second resource are limited, An object of the present invention is to provide a resource management system for efficiently allocating a first resource and a second resource.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a resource management system for allocating sponsor commercials to broadcast programs.

[0011]

A resource management system for a first resource and a second resource according to the present invention is characterized by having the following elements. (A) a first resource storage unit that stores a plurality of first resources in which an attribute that can be provided by the first resource and its time frame are defined; (b) for using the first resource A second resource storage unit for storing a plurality of second resources in which a usage condition and a usage period thereof are defined; (c) the first resource based on the usage condition of the second resource and the usage period thereof; An assignment unit that assigns the second resource to the first resource by referring to the attribute of the resource and its time frame.

The first resource storage unit is characterized in that the time frame is defined using a three-dimensional concept of period, day, and hour.

The resource management system further comprises an allocation storage unit for storing the allocation results of the first and second resources by the allocation unit.

The first resource storage unit stores a plurality of time frames for one first resource, and the allocation unit is
It is characterized in that a plurality of second resources are assigned to one first resource.

The allocation unit divides one time frame into a plurality of sub time frames and allocates the second resource for each sub time frame, and the allocation storage unit stores the first resource for each sub time frame. And storing the result of the allocation of the second resource.

The assigning unit has 2 axes centered on the day and the hour.
A three-dimensional display means for displaying the first resource as a block using a dimensional plane and displaying a depth of a week as a week, and an attribute of the first resource in each block displayed as a block. And a status display means for displaying the allocation status of the time frame.

The allocating section is further provided with a card display means for displaying information for each time frame in multiple layers on a card at the block-displayed position.

The card display means is characterized in that the card is automatically displayed in the block to which the cursor is moved only by moving the cursor.

The card display means displays the size of the card to be displayed in proportion to the size of the block.

The card display means is further characterized in that information for each sub-time frame is multi-layered displayed on the sub-card, and the second resource is allocated to the un-allocated sub-time frame by using the sub-card. To do.

The resource management system includes a line segment display means for displaying a line segment of the period of use of the second resource stored in the second resource storage unit, and the line segment designating unit for assigning the allocation unit. It is characterized by having a starting means for starting.

The three-dimensional display means is characterized in that it displays only the first resource having a time frame suitable for the usage period of the second resource.

The three-dimensional display means is further characterized by displaying only the first resource having an attribute that matches the usage condition of the second resource.

The resource management system is a commercial management system for broadcast programs, the first resource is a broadcast program, the attribute of the first resource is program information, and the first resource is program information.
The time frame of the resource is the commercial frame of the program, the second resource is the commercial of the sponsor, the usage condition of the second resource is the broadcasting condition of the commercial, and the usage period of the second resource is that of the sponsor. It is characterized by the commercial contract period of.

The above attribute is at least one of the content of the broadcast program, the broadcast day, the broadcast time, the audience rating and the listening rate.
It is characterized by being one.

[0026]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Embodiment 1. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a resource management system according to the present invention. Here, a system for managing the allocation of broadcast programs and commercials of television broadcasting stations will be described. In this embodiment, the broadcasting station head office 10
1 and the broadcasting station branch 102 constitute a system via the network 103. The broadcasting station main store 101 has a file server 2 and a database 3. In addition, the broadcasting station head office 101 and the broadcasting station branch 102
Has a local server 5, a database 7 and a workstation 6, respectively. Broadcasting station 101
Information on broadcast programs is stored in the database 3. The file server 2 supplies the broadcast program information stored in the database 3 to the local server 5 or the workstation 6. When a salesman placed at the broadcasting station main store 101 and the broadcasting station branch 102 receives an order for a commercial (CM) contract from a sponsor, the contract person inputs the contract information from the workstation 6. Then, the commercial is allocated to the commercial (CM) frame of the broadcast program so as to satisfy the contract information.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the workstation 6 shown in FIG. In the figure, 6a is a display device serving as a display unit for displaying information, 6b is characters,
A keyboard for inputting numerical values, 6c is a mouse for designating an arbitrary position on the display device, 6d is a mouse pad, and 6e is a workstation main unit.

Next, FIG. 3 is an internal block diagram of the file server 2 shown in FIG. In the figure, 9 is an operating system for controlling the entire file server, 1
0 is a window system running on the operating system, 11 is a graphic user interface unit (GUI) running on the window system,
A desktop 12 operates on the graphic user interface unit to provide a desktop environment to the user. Reference numeral 13 denotes TCP / IP (transmission control protocol / internet protocol) for interfacing with the network line 8.
4 is a communication socket program for controlling communication with a host computer or workstation, 15 is a database entry for entering data into a database using the window system 10, and 16 is data input from the database entry 15. ,
Database maintenance department to change the database,
Reference numeral 17 is relational database software for handling the data stored in the database in a relational manner, and reference numeral 18 is a graphic user interface function of the graphic user interface unit for inputting, displaying, and editing a line segment on a display device. A line editor that can be edited, 19 is a report writer for outputting a report in cooperation with the line editor 18, and 20 is an input for input to the line editor in cooperation with the line editor 18. A before-demon that performs a method display and checks whether the data selected by the line segment editor is consistent with other data, 21 also cooperates with the line segment editor 18 to edit as requested by the line segment editor. The data recorded in the database into the desired shape. A manner, after the daemon to provide to the user, 22 is Tatemasuta automatic generation unit for automatically generating items displayed on the vertical axis when the window system to display a window. Reference numeral 23 is a network file system for storing data received via a line, 24 is an input candidate output unit that displays complementary master information as input candidates when complementing uncomplemented information in a database, 25 Is a consistency check unit that checks whether the master information to be complemented is other than double booking or expiration date.

Next, the local server 5 and the workstation 6 will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure,
4 to 9 are the same as the file server shown in FIG. 3, and the description thereof is omitted here.
In the figure, 38 is a communication unit for the local server to perform communication, and 39 is an SDLC driver used for the communication unit to actually perform communication. The local server 5 has a simpler configuration than the file server 2. This is to control the input and editing of the database 7.
On the other hand, the file server has a more complicated structure than the local server 5 because it must centrally manage the database 3 and maintain the database 7.

The workstation shown in FIG. 4 is provided with a window system 10, a graphic user interface section 11 and a desktop 12 in order to provide an efficient man-machine interface.
Although the program for operating the workstation 6 is not shown, it may be stored in the workstation 6. Alternatively, it may be held in the local server 5. Further, a personal computer or a dedicated terminal device may be used instead of the workstation.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the structure of a broadcast program.
In FIG. 5, the vertical axis represents time and the horizontal axis represents day of the week. Depth represents a week. Each broadcast program can be specified by specifying the day of the week and the time. Broadcast programs have a limited broadcast period. For example, the broadcast period varies depending on each broadcast program such as one that is broadcast for half a year, one that is broadcast for three months, and one that is broadcast for only one day.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the relationship between broadcast programs and CM frames. FIG. 6 shows a case where news and drama are broadcast programs. Four CM frames are set for a broadcast program called news. Each CM frame has a length of 1 minute. This one CM frame is further divided into sub CM frames every 15 seconds, and four C frames are provided for each CM frame.
M can be broadcast. Therefore, a total of 16 CMs can be broadcast for the broadcast program called news. Also, the first three CMs among the four CM frames
It is general that the frame and the last CM frame have different audience ratings. Therefore, the P attribute is given to the first three CM frames, and the S attribute indicating that the audience ratings are different is given to the fourth CM frame. Therefore, for the broadcast program called news, there are 12 sub-CM frames with the P attribute, and S
There are four sub CM frames with attributes. The CM frame with the S attribute always appears at the end of the program, but the P attribute and the S attribute are manual pages based on the popularity of the broadcast program and the popularity of the broadcast program broadcast before and after the broadcast program. Can be changed arbitrarily. Also, CM
The frame has ranks A rank, B rank, and C rank depending on the broadcast time zone of the broadcast program.

FIG. 7 is a logical configuration diagram of the resource management system. The first resource storage unit 120 stores the program master 31 and C
It is composed of an M frame master 32. Program master 31
Stores information about the broadcast program such as the content of the broadcast program and the broadcast deadline. The CM frame master 32 registers the CM frame corresponding to each broadcast program. On the other hand, the second resource storage unit 130 includes a sponsor master 33 and a contract information master 34.
It is composed of The sponsor master 33 stores information about the sponsor such as the address and name of the sponsor. The contract information master 34 registers information regarding CM contracts with sponsors. The allocating unit 140 performs CM for the CM frame of the broadcast program based on the CM contract of the sponsor.
Assign. The allocation unit 140 has a three-dimensional display means 141, a status display means 142, and a card display means 143. The three-dimensional display means 141 uses the date and time as the axis 2
The broadcast program is displayed in blocks using a dimensional plane, and the broadcast period is displayed in depth on a weekly basis. The status display unit 142 displays the content and audience rating of the broadcast program for each block of the broadcast program displayed as a block, and also displays the CM frame allocation status for the broadcast program. The card display means 143 displays the CM at the block-displayed position.
The frame information is displayed in multiple layers on the card. Three-dimensional display means 14
1, more specific operations of the status display unit 142 and the card display unit 143 will be described later. The allocation file 35 stores the correspondence between the sub CM frame of the program and the CM of the sponsor allocated by the allocation unit 140. 18 is the line segment editor described above. Reference numeral 47 is a line table file used by the line segment editor, and this line table file is defined as an external definition file. The line segment editor 18 is provided with the following in order to edit a line segment. 43 is a line segment information display section for displaying line segment information using the line table file 47, 44 is a line segment information changing section for changing the displayed line segment information, and 45 is a line segment for displaying information by day A line segment information aggregating unit for displaying by month and the like, and a line segment information quoting unit 46 for copying or quoting line segment information.

As described above, the line segment editor 18 includes the line segment information display section 43, the line segment information changing section 44, the line segment information collecting section 45, and the line segment information quoting section 46, and is shown in FIG. The display of such line segments, the display of information attached to the line segments, and their modification and editing are performed. The line table file 47 stores the line segment input, changed, or edited by the line segment editor 18 as an external definition file. 149
When the line segment displayed by the line segment editor 18 is selected, is a starting means for activating the allocation unit 140 to display the allocation information corresponding to the selected line segment.

FIG. 8 shows the program master 31 and the CM frame master 3.
2 is a diagram showing the relationship between the contract information master 34 and the allocation file 35. FIG. It is assumed that the program master 31 stores the information on the program A. The program master 31 also stores information on other programs, but it is not shown here. C
The M frame master 32 stores the CM frame of the program A. Here, the CM frame master 32 has the CM frame 1 for the program A.
2 shows the case where two CM frames, namely, CM frame 2 are stored. The contract information master 34 stores CM contract information of the sponsor X and the sponsor Y. Here, a total of 1 commercials called CM1 with Sponsor X
It indicates that there is a contract to broadcast 0 times. Also,
This shows that there is a contract with Sponsor Y to broadcast a commercial called CM2 five times in total. Here, “one” means that the broadcast time of the CM is 15 seconds. The allocation file 35 is C
CM frame and contract information master 3 stored in M frame master 32
The assignment with the contract information stored in 4 is stored. For example, in the example shown in FIG. 8, it is stored that the sub CM frame 1 in the CM frame 1 of the program A broadcasts the CM 1 from the sponsor X. Also, in the sub CM frame 2 of the CM frame 1, it is stored that the CM Y of the sponsor Y is broadcast.
As described above, FIG. 8 shows only the program A, but there are other programs as well, and CMs of the sponsor X and the sponsor Y are assigned to programs other than the program A as well. You can

FIG. 9 shows the program master 31 and the CM frame master 3.
2 is a diagram showing file formats of a sponsor master 33, a contract information master 34, and an allocation file 35. FIG. The program master 31 stores a sequence number, a program name, a broadcasting period, a broadcasting day, a broadcasting time, and the like. The CM frame master 32 stores a sequence number, a CM frame code, a CM frame total time, a CM frame idle time, and the like. The sponsor master 33 stores a sponsor number, a sponsor name, a sponsor address, and the like. The contract information master 34 stores a contract number, a sponsor number, a contract period, the total number of CMs, the number of remaining CMs, and the like. The allocation file 35 stores a sequence number, a CM frame code, a sub CM frame code, a contract number, and the like. The state shown in FIG. 9 shows the allocation status shown in FIG. The program master 31 stores the program A and the sequence number 1 uniquely assigned to the program. The CM frame master 32 shows a case where the program A has two CM frames. The two CM frames are discriminated by the CM frame code 1 and the CM frame code 2. The sponsor X and the sponsor Y are registered in the sponsor master 33. Contract information master 34
Indicates a CM contract between Sponsor X and Sponsor Y. The allocation unit 140 inputs the information of these four files and outputs an allocation result record to the allocation file 35. In the case shown in FIG. 9, the CM with the contract number 5 is assigned to the sub CM frame 1 of the CM frame 1 of the program A. Similarly, for the sub CM frame 2 of the CM frame 1 and the sub CM frames 1, 3, and 4 of the CM frame 2, the CM
Has been assigned. Sub C of CM frame 1
The CMs 3 and 4 and the sub CM frame 2 of the CM frame 2 are still CMs.
Are not assigned, these assignment result records have not yet been generated in the assignment file 35. The allocation unit 140 outputs a new allocation result record to the allocation file 35 each time a CM frame and a CM are allocated. The file format shown in FIG. 9 is an example, and various formats other than the format shown in the figure are conceivable. In this embodiment, the program master 31, the CM frame master 32, the sponsor master 33, the contract information master 34, and the allocation file 3
Although the case where the CM is allocated to the CM frame of the broadcast program by using the five files of No. 5 has been described, it is not always necessary to use the above-mentioned five files, and several files are integrated into one file. It doesn't matter
The above-mentioned one file may be divided into a plurality of files to store information.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a menu displayed on the screen. By selecting the program master registration button 410, the contents of the program master 31 are registered. FIG.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a weekly program table registered by this registration work. Also, sponsor master registration button 4
The content of the sponsor master 33 is registered by selecting 11. By selecting the CM master registration button 412, the contents of the CM frame master 32 are registered. The registration work for each of these masters is performed by using a master registration screen (not shown). Also, by selecting the contract information master registration button 413,
The contents of the contract information master 34 are registered. FIG. 12 shows a case where the line segment editor 18 is used when registering the contract information master. When registering contract information, please refer to Figure 1.
Display the contract line table shown in 2 and enter the line segment. When the input of the line segment is completed, a contract detail screen for inputting detailed information for the line segment is displayed. The operator inputs detailed information of the contract by inputting the contract number, the sponsor number, etc. according to the input instruction. This contract line table input and contract detail screen input are as shown in FIG.
This can be done by using a procedure similar to that of a conventional resource management system such as. On the contract details screen, various information regarding the sponsor and contract conditions are input. Since the contract period has already been entered by inputting a line segment, it is not necessary to enter it on the contract details screen. Here, as a contract condition, it is shown that the total audience rating when the CM is broadcast reaches 150% or more. In addition, A, B, C attached according to the broadcasting time zone
It shows the condition of how many CMs of 15 seconds and 30 seconds are broadcast for each of the three ranks of CM frames.
In this way, the contract period and contract conditions are entered and stored as contract information with the contractor. Contract conditions can be considered other than the audience rating. For example, CM frame with P attribute and S
When designating the number of attribute CM frames, when designating a day of the week, when designating a time zone such as morning and evening, or the content of a broadcast program (for example, an animation program,
Various contract conditions are conceivable, such as when specifying the contents of programs such as news programs and sports programs.

By selecting the CM allocation button 414 shown in FIG. 10, the allocation unit 140 is activated, and C
CMs can be assigned to M frames. The operation will be described with reference to FIGS. 13 to 16. FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the operation of the allocation unit 140. When the CM allocation button 414 shown in FIG. 10 is selected, the calendar shown in FIG. 14 is displayed. The operator selects a desired date from this calendar. In this example, October 7 is selected. By this selection, the contract line table shown in FIG. 12 is displayed. That is, as shown in S1 of FIG. 13, a list of line segments based on the contract information is displayed. At this point, the contract details screen shown in FIG. 12 may not be displayed. Next, in S2,
Select any contract from the contract line table. This arbitrary contract is selected by selecting any of the line segments 501, 502 or 503.
It is done by selecting. Next, in S3, the programs matching the selected contract period are extracted from the program master 31, and the weekly program table as shown in FIG. 15 is displayed. For example, when the line segment 502 is selected in FIG. 12, the program broadcast during the contract period indicated by the line segment 502 is extracted from the program master 31. Next, in S4, the free time of the CM frame of the program extracted from the program master 31 is extracted from the CM frame master 32. Next, in S5, a time keeping screen as shown in FIG. 15 is displayed. The operations of S3 to S5 are started and executed by the activation unit 149 activating the allocation unit 140. FIG. 15 shows the weekly program guide showing the information about the CM frame of the program that meets the conditions specified in the contract information. The display shown in FIG. 15 is performed by the three-dimensional display means 141. The three-dimensional display means 141 displays the program as a block on a two-dimensional plane in which the vertical axis represents time and the horizontal axis represents day of the week or date. Further, by selecting the previous week button 420 or the next week button 430, the weekly program table is rewritten and displayed on a weekly basis. As for the display of programs on the weekly program guide, only those within the contract period in which the user is currently working (within the period indicated by the selected line segment) are displayed. That is, the programs to which CMs cannot be assigned are not displayed. For example, the line segment 502 shown in FIG.
Is a contract in the range from October 10th to October 21st, the three-dimensional display means 141 displays the program only from October 10th to October 21st. Do not display the program. In addition, whether to display the program is determined according to the contract conditions and the content of the program. For example, when the CM contract is “broadcast from 7:30 to 9:00 in the morning”, only the programs from 7:00 to 9:00 am are displayed and other programs are not displayed. If the CM contract is "Saturday only", the program only on Saturday is displayed, and other programs are not displayed. Also, if the CM contract is "only sports programs", only sports programs are displayed and other programs are not displayed. Further, when there are a plurality of these contract conditions, only the programs satisfying all the conditions are displayed. In this way, since only the programs that can be allocated by the CM of the sponsor who is working are displayed, the allocation work can be performed very quickly and easily. As for the display of programs on the weekly program guide, only those within the contract period currently being worked (within the period indicated by the selected line segment) are displayed, and other programs are not displayed. You can change the color of the program and display it
You may display it thinly. Further, it may be displayed as usual. When other programs are to be displayed, it is desirable not to be able to select them, or to display an error when they are selected.

Next, the display performed by the status display means 142 is
There are three types: (1) Display of time-taking results The actual time to which the CM of the sponsor is allocated is displayed as coins 601 and 602 in the weekly program table. The coin 601 is a C assigned to a CM frame having a P attribute.
Display the number of M. The coin 602 is a CM having an S attribute
The number of CMs assigned to the frame is displayed. (2) Free CM frame information display The total of the sub CM frames of each program is displayed in a pie chart 801. The number of empty sub CM frames is displayed at the center of the pie chart. In addition, the ratio of the number of free spaces is displayed in a pie chart.
Therefore, it is possible to visually understand the CM allocation status. (3) Display of audience ratings The audience ratings 701 and 702 are displayed. The audience rating 701 is P
It is the audience rating of the CM frame of the attribute. The audience rating 702 is the audience rating of the CM frame having the S attribute.

Further, as shown in FIG. 15, a contract information screen is displayed together with the weekly program table. The information displayed on this contract information screen is for selectively displaying the information input on the contract details screen shown in FIG. Especially, the difference is that the plan and the actual result are displayed. FIG.
The example shown in FIG. 5 shows a state in which four B rank CM frames are assigned to a contract with a B car. Also,
Assuming that all four B-ranked CM frames have an audience rating of 4.5%, the current allocation record is 18% for the plan of a total audience rating of 150%.
(4.5% × 4 = 18%).

Next, the operation of the card display means 143 will be described. The card display means 143 displays the card 900 of FIG. FIG. 16 shows the card 9 shown in FIG.
00 is an enlarged display. This card 900
It is automatically displayed by moving the cursor on the screen with the mouse. That is, by moving the cursor with the mouse, the card 900 is displayed so as to jump forward in the block of the time frame in which the cursor is located. The card 900 is for displaying information on allocated and unallocated CM frames. As shown in FIG. 16, the card 900 is composed of a main card 901 and a sub card 902. The main card 901 displays the date, rank, and broadcast time on the upper side, displays the number of sub-CM frames assigned with P attribute on the left side, and displays the number of sub-CM frames assigned with S attribute on the right side. In addition, whether the sub CM frame is assigned by the head office or the branch is displayed. Further, the audience rating of the sub CM frame is displayed. The sub card 902 is the main card 90
It is a card displayed by selecting 1 with the mouse. Of the sub-cards 902, the assigned sub-cards to which the CM of the sponsor currently executing the assignment work is assigned are displayed in different colors. Also, which C
If M is not assigned, empty CM frame card 90
3 is displayed. By selecting this empty CM frame card 903 with the mouse, the CM of the sponsor currently working can be assigned to this empty CM frame. An empty CM frame card can be selected by single-clicking the mouse. In this case, it takes 15 seconds. Also, 3 instead of 15 seconds
If you want to set the time for 0 seconds, hold down the control key and single-click the mouse.
A time of 30 seconds can be taken. By performing this allocation work, the actual value on the contract information screen shown in FIG. 15 is automatically updated. The card can also be used to change assignments or delete assignments. In the case shown in FIG. 16, CM of B rank
Although it shows the case where time is taken for the frame, by operating the keyboard or the mouse,
Ranks can be changed from A to B, B to C, C to A. In this way, the time-taking work shown in S6 of FIG. 13 can be performed.

In the above embodiment, a television broadcasting station is described as an example, but a radio broadcasting station may be used. In the case of a radio broadcasting station, the attribute of listening rate is used instead of the attribute of audience rating. Further, the present invention can be applied not only to a television broadcasting station or a radio broadcasting station, but also to a case where a commercial is assigned to a transmission target from the Internet, cable broadcasting, video-on-demand broadcasting, communication karaoke, or the like.

In the above embodiments, the case of the broadcasting station has been described as an example, but the broadcasting station in the above embodiments is the supply side that supplies the broadcast program (CM frame), and the sponsor is the supply side. CM for broadcast program (CM frame)
Is the demand side that wants to broadcast. Therefore, according to the present invention, a broadcast program (CM
This is for allocating a first resource called a frame) and a second resource called a CM provided from a demand side called a sponsor. In this way, when the supply side and the demand side respectively provide the first resource of the broadcast program (CM frame) and the second resource of the CM and allocate them, the resource management system of the present invention works effectively. The conventional resource management system has been that only one resource is supplied, or a plurality of one type of resources are supplied, and the supplied resources are simply allocated to the demand side. The resource management system according to the present invention is characterized in that the supply side and the demand side each have a first resource and a second resource, and these are allocated to each other. Further, the present invention is characterized in that both the first resource and the second resource are intangible. A conventional resource management system has a theme of managing tangible objects. For example, it aims to manage a conference room, a theater, or a car as a resource. When these tangible objects are used as resources, as long as the resources are registered in the system, the resources are managed as infinitely existing until the registration is deleted. For example,
When dealing with a conference room as a resource, the conference room
In principle, it is assumed that it will exist for an infinite period of time. On the other hand, the present invention is intangible regardless of whether the provided resource is the first resource or the second resource, and has a finite period. Therefore, the present invention is characterized in that it manages intangible objects that exist for a finite period of time, which cannot be managed by the conventional system that manages tangible objects that exist for an infinite period of time. The features of the present invention are
The first resource and the second resource each have an attribute (broadcast content, popularity, broadcast day, broadcast time, etc.) and a complicated condition for selecting the attribute. When the first resource and the second resource have attributes and conditions, and further, the first resource and the second resource have a finite lifetime, the first resource and the second resource The present invention can be applied to the case of efficiently allocating the first resource and the second resource while referring to the period, the attribute, and the condition of the resource.

FIG. 17 shows the case where the first resource and the second resource exist for a finite period in this way, and the first resource changes the attribute with the change of time, and the second resource It is a figure which shows some examples in the case where the resource of is equipped with the utilization condition or the adaptation condition when using a 1st resource. For example, as for the curriculum of an English conversation school or the curriculum of a private supplementary school, it is general to create a curriculum for one week as in the above-mentioned broadcast program. On the other hand, English conversation instructors and cram school teachers include part-time employees in addition to regular employees, and each instructor or teacher has a different field of expertise (such as national language, English, or mathematics). The resource management system described above can be applied because the period of providing the resource is limited. In addition, department stores and supermarkets such as the ski season and the swimming season are changed depending on the season and the day, such as the New Year's gift and the year-end gift. It is necessary to secure personnel to support the sales floor by changing the floor area and contents of the sales floor.
On the other hand, a part-time job and a part-timer are workers who have a specific work history and experience and have specific product knowledge, and are workers with limited time or limited days. The resource management system described above can be used when allocating the labor that can be provided by these workers to the sales floor of each product. Furthermore, when assigning a part-time stewardess to an airplane flight schedule, the resource management system as described above can be used. It should be noted that the case shown in FIG. 17 is an example of some cases in which the resource management system of the present invention can be applied, and the resource management system of the present invention is shown in FIG.
The case shown in is not limited.

In the above embodiment, the case where the time and the day of the week are two-dimensional planes with the ordinate and the abscissa and the depth is the period (week) is shown, but the ordinate, the abscissa and the depth are three. The dimension time axis is not limited to the time of day, the day of the week, and the week. FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example used as one axis in a three-dimensional time axis. 19 and 2
0 and FIG. 21 are diagrams showing examples in which three time axes are used from the examples that can be the time axes shown in FIG. The time frame means a frame that can be specified by coordinate values of the time axis of the three-dimensional direction when having different kinds of time axes in the three-dimensional direction, as shown in FIGS. 18 to 21. It is a thing. For example, when the broadcast program is managed in three dimensions of day, hour, and minute as shown in FIG. 19, the time frame is defined by each value of day, hour, and minute. As described above, the present invention can be applied even when the first resource is defined by a time frame of day, hour, minute, or other time frame.

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As described above, according to the present invention, the first
It is possible to efficiently allocate the second resource to the resource.

Further, according to the present invention, the sponsor's commercial can be efficiently assigned to the broadcast program.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the workstation 6 of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a file server 2 of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a local server 5 and a workstation 6 of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a broadcast program of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a CM frame of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a logical configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a program master 31 and a CM frame master 3 according to the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing the relationship among 2, the contract information master 34, and the allocation file 35.

FIG. 9 is a program master 31 and a CM frame master 3 according to the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing formats of 2, a sponsor master 33, a contract information master 34, and an allocation file 35. FIG.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a menu screen of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a weekly program guide of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a contract line table and a contract detail screen of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an operation of the assigning unit 140 of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a calendar according to the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the assigning unit 140 of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the card display means 143 of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing another example of the first resource and the second resource of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a time axis of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of a three-dimensional time axis according to the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of a three-dimensional time axis according to the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing an example of a three-dimensional time axis according to the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a conventional conference room reservation table.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a conventional studio operation table.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing a conventional process chart.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing a conventional venue A reservation table.

[Explanation of code] 2 file server, 3 database, 5 local server, 6 workstations, 7 database,
31 program master, 32 CM frame master, 33 sponsor master, 34 contract information master, 35 allocation file, 101 broadcasting station main store, 102 broadcasting station branch, 120
First resource storage unit, 130 second resource storage unit, 14
0 allocation unit, 141 three-dimensional display unit, 142 status display unit, 143 card display unit, 149 starting unit, 501, 502, 503 line segment, 601, 602 coin, 801 pie chart, 900 card, 901 main card, 902 sub card.

Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. A resource management system for a first resource and a second resource having the following elements: (a) a plurality of first resources in which attributes that can be provided by the first resource and their time frames are defined. A first resource storage unit for storing the following: (b) a second resource storage unit for storing a plurality of second resources for which a usage condition for using the first resource and a usage period thereof are defined; (C) An allocation unit that allocates the second resource to the first resource by referring to the attribute of the first resource and its time frame based on the usage condition and the usage period of the second resource. 2. The resource management system according to claim 1, wherein the first resource storage unit defines the time frame using a three-dimensional concept of period, day, and hour. 3. The resource management system further comprises an allocation storage unit that stores the allocation result of the first and second resources by the allocation unit.
Resource management system described. 4. The first resource storage unit stores a plurality of time frames for one first resource, and the assigning unit stores a plurality of second time frames for one first resource. The resource management system according to claim 3, wherein resources are allocated. 5. The allocation unit divides one time frame into a plurality of sub time frames and allocates the second resource for each sub time frame, and the allocation storage unit stores for each sub time frame. 5. The resource management system according to claim 4, wherein the allocation results of the first and second resources are stored. 6. The three-dimensional display means, wherein the allocation unit displays the first resource as a block using a two-dimensional plane having a day and an hour as an axis, and displays a depth of the period in week units with one week as a unit. 6. The resource management system according to claim 5, further comprising: a status display unit for displaying the attribute of the first resource and displaying the allocation status of the time frame in each block displayed as the block. 7. The card allocating unit further comprises card display means for displaying information for each time frame on a card in a multi-layered manner at the block-displayed position.
Resource management system described. 8. The resource management system according to claim 7, wherein the card display means automatically displays a card in the block to which the cursor has moved only by moving the cursor. 9. The resource management system according to claim 8, wherein the card display means displays the size of the card to be displayed in proportion to the size of the block. 10. The card display means further multi-displays information for each sub-time frame with sub-cards, and uses the sub-cards to display second information for unassigned sub-time frames.
10. The resource management system according to claim 9, wherein the resources are allocated. 11. The resource management system, a line segment display means for displaying a line segment of a utilization period of the second resource stored in the second resource storage unit, and the line segment for designating the allocation. 7. The resource management system according to claim 6, further comprising a starting unit that starts the unit. 12. The resource management system according to claim 11, wherein the three-dimensional display means displays only the first resource having a time frame that matches the usage period of the second resource. 13. The resource management system according to claim 12, wherein the three-dimensional display means further displays only the first resource having an attribute matching the usage condition of the second resource. 14. The resource management system is a broadcast program commercial management system, the first resource is a broadcast program, and the attribute of the first resource is program information.
The time slot of the first resource is the commercial slot of the program, the second resource is the commercial of the sponsor, the second slot
2. The resource management system according to claim 1, wherein the resource use condition is the commercial broadcast condition, and the second resource use period is the commercial contract period with the sponsor. 15. The resource management system according to claim 14, wherein the attribute is at least one of the content of the broadcast program, the broadcast day, the broadcast time, the audience rating, and the listening rate.