KR20120133427A

KR20120133427A - Method and Apparatus for Scheduling

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Publication number: KR20120133427A
Application number: KR1020110052053A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 최지훈; 김은희; 김대현
Original assignee: 삼성에스디에스 주식회사
Priority date: 2011-05-31
Filing date: 2011-05-31
Publication date: 2012-12-11

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for establishing a meeting schedule by a scheduling establishment apparatus, the method comprising: receiving meeting information including at least an expected meeting date and a list of attendees of a meeting to be established; Retrieving schedule information and available conference room information of a meeting attendee from a database based on the conference information; Calculating a plurality of meeting schedules from the searched results; And selecting a candidate meeting schedule from the plurality of meeting schedules based on the location information of the attendees.

Description

Scheme and method of scheduling establishment {Method and Apparatus for Scheduling}

The present invention relates to a scheduling establishment method and apparatus, and more particularly, to a scheduling establishment method and apparatus capable of automatically calculating a meeting schedule using a social network service.

The importance of meetings is growing as existing tasks are specialized and subdivided, increasing coordination of tasks and performing tasks simultaneously in various regions. In such a situation, as the generalization of mobile terminals and the growth of social network services (SNS), technology for sharing meeting information in real time and setting a schedule for meetings by reflecting the participants' intentions has been proposed.

As a prior art in this technical field, there is, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2007-0049868 (name of the invention: a method of arranging a meeting using a short message service). In the present invention, the conference organizer directly enters the available candidate times into the system and provides the participants to the meeting by e-mail or short message, and the attendees who receive the checks the available time through the system and delivers the meeting time to the host again by e-mail or short message. do. The system then calculates the statistics and provides them to the organizer. The provider then confirms the meeting time and presents the technique of delivering the time to attendees by short message or e-mail. However, the present invention has to manually confirm the meeting time and place, and then manually input and deliver the meeting. After the schedule is confirmed, the meeting room is also inconvenient to book directly, and location information of meeting participants is not considered. There is no problem.

Another prior art is Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2008-0059464 (name of the invention: an intelligent meeting scheduler). The scheduler system determines a meeting time and place using location information of previously stored meeting targets. Notify attendees through various terminals. Location and road traffic information is used to provide information on when to leave so that you can attend the meeting on time. However, the present invention reflects the location of the real time, but it provides only information on whether it is late or not late at the current meeting time, and only reflects the previously set location in actual scheduling. In addition, it does not present a method of reflecting the real-time location, and there is a disadvantage that an inefficient iterative process proceeds because it is continuously updated using only existing schedules and location information without participation of meeting subjects.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a scheduling establishment method and apparatus capable of automatically calculating an optimal conference schedule in consideration of the location of meeting participants, an empty schedule, a conference room, and the like.

In another aspect, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for establishing a schedule that can eliminate the unnecessary repetition process and reduce the possibility of changing the meeting schedule in the future, because the meeting attendees can vote directly through the social network service function calculated a plurality of meeting schedules For the purpose.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for establishing a meeting schedule by a scheduling establishment apparatus, the method comprising: receiving meeting information including at least an expected meeting date and a list of attendees of a meeting to be established; Retrieving schedule information and available conference room information of a meeting attendee from a database based on the conference information; Calculating a plurality of meeting schedules from the searched results; And selecting a candidate meeting schedule from the plurality of meeting schedules based on the location information of the attendee.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method on a computer.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a scheduling establishment apparatus, comprising: a transceiver for receiving conference information including at least an expected meeting date of a conference to be established and a list of attendees; A search unit that searches attendee schedule information, available conference room information, and user information of the attendee; And a scheduling processor configured to calculate a candidate conference schedule of the conference to be established based on the conference information, schedule information, conference room information, and user information, wherein the user information includes location information of an attendee. Provided is a scheduling establishment apparatus.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optimal meeting schedule is automatically calculated in consideration of user information of meeting participants, an empty schedule, a conference room, and the like.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention because it uses a social network service function when establishing a meeting schedule provides a simple and fast communication effect.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the meeting attendees can vote directly on the calculated multiple meeting schedules, thereby providing an effect of eliminating unnecessary repetitive processes and lowering the possibility of changing the meeting schedule later.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a scheduling establishment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a scheduling establishment apparatus 50 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a scheduling establishment process using a scheduling establishment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart showing a detailed flow according to an embodiment of the candidate conference schedule calculating step S115 of FIG.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary score calculation method in score calculation step S205 of the conference schedule of FIG. 4; FIG.
6A to 6H illustrate an example of a conference scheduling process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more readily apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein but may be embodied in other forms. Rather, the embodiments disclosed herein are provided so that the disclosure can be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. In this specification, when an element is referred to as being on another element, it may be directly formed on another element, or a third element may be interposed therebetween.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. In the present specification, the singular form includes plural forms unless otherwise specified in the specification. As used in the specification, "comprises" or "comprising" does not exclude the presence or addition of one or more other components in addition to the components mentioned.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In describing the following specific embodiments, various specific details are set forth in order to explain and understand the invention in more detail. However, those skilled in the art can understand that the present invention can be used without these various specific details. In some instances, it should be noted that portions of the invention that are well known in the description of the invention and are not significantly related to the invention do not describe confusion in describing the invention.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a scheduling establishment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a system of a scheduling establishment apparatus includes a network 10, a social network service (SNS) providing apparatus 20, a mobile device 31, a personal computer 33, an IP-based TV 35, and the like. It includes a variety of user terminal 30, the groupware 40 for managing the meeting schedule, and the conference scheduling apparatus 50 and the DB server 60 connected thereto.

The network 10 may be any network that interconnects the social network service providing apparatus 20, the user terminal 30, the groupware 40, the scheduling establishment apparatus 50, and the DB server 60. have. That is, it includes both mobile communication networks and data communication networks such as the Internet, and for example, any one or two of various types of mobile communication networks or data communication networks such as 3G, 4G, local area networks, telecommunication networks, Wi-Fi, WiBro, Bluetooth, etc. It may be in a combined form, but is not limited thereto.

The social network service providing apparatus 20 refers to any device providing an existing SNS, and includes, for example, various types of service providing web servers providing social network services.

The user terminal 30 includes a mobile device 31, a personal computer (PC) 33, and an IP-based TV 35 as shown. In the present invention, the user terminal 30 includes all terminals capable of using social network services. That is, it includes all the terminals that can be connected to the social network service providing apparatus 20 through the network 10 such as the Internet, and may be, for example, a smartphone, a PDA, a tablet PC, and the like.

The groupware 40 includes a conference room management system 41 and a schedule management system 43 as an existing in-house system, and in one embodiment of the present invention, the final meeting schedule meeting determined by the scheduling establishment device 50. It can be used to store various meeting information such as time and place.

The scheduling establishment device 50 is a device for retrieving various meeting related data stored in a database (DB) server 60 and establishing a meeting schedule based on location information of a meeting attendee in an embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the scheduling establishment service provided by the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 may be used in addition to the function of the social network service provided by the existing social network service provision apparatus 20, in which case the meeting organizer or the meeting Attendees may access the social network service providing apparatus 20 through various user terminals 30 to access the scheduling establishment apparatus of the present invention. Also, in an alternative embodiment, the scheduling establishment device 50 may provide a user with its own social network service, or may be used as an additional part of the in-house groupware 40, and the present invention may provide such various service providing paths. There is no limit to.

The DB server 60 stores various kinds of information necessary for setting and managing a meeting schedule. In the illustrated embodiment, the user information DB 61 stores names, titles, and location information of users of the scheduling establishment apparatus 50. Here, the location information includes a work location where the user mainly works.

The schedule information DB 63 stores the schedule of each user. For example, for each user, business hours (for example, Monday through Friday) are divided into hourly time zones (eg, 9 am to 6 pm), and the meeting schedule for each time zone of the user is stored. The conference room information DB 65 stores the use schedule of each conference room for every time zone of the business hours of the work day for all conference rooms available to the scheduling establishment apparatus 50. The meeting information DB 67 stores various meeting information input by the meeting organizer through the scheduling establishment device 50 to establish a meeting schedule.

In one embodiment of the present invention, when the meeting schedule is finally determined, the meeting date and time of the meeting and information on the conference room to be used are respectively provided to the schedule management system 43 and the meeting room management system 41 of the groupware 40, respectively. Stored. That is, the finally confirmed meeting information is reflected on the groupware 40 side and updated immediately, and at the same time, the meeting information is reflected on the schedule information DB 63 and the conference room information DB 65.

That is, the schedule information DB 63 and the conference room information DB 65 of the DB server 60 are interlocked with the DB in the schedule management system 43 of the groupware 40 and the DB in the conference room management system 41, respectively. Therefore, in an alternative embodiment, only one of the DB and the schedule information DB 63 in the schedule management system 43 may exist, and similarly, only one of the DB and the meeting room information DB 65 in the meeting room management system 41 may exist. It's okay.

In an embodiment of the present invention having the above-described system configuration, the conference organizer calculates an optimal candidate time and place using the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 and then shares it with users through a social network service. They can vote at any time and place where possible. The scheduling establishment apparatus 50 may add the result of the vote to the organizer, and the organizer may determine a final meeting proposal and announce it through the social network service.

2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a scheduling establishment apparatus 50 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 of the present invention includes a transceiver 51, a searcher 53, a scheduling processor 55, and a result processor 57. Other functional units may be further included, but portions not related to the description of the present invention are omitted, and some of the illustrated functional units may be omitted according to embodiments of the present invention.

The transceiver 51 allows the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 to transmit / receive data with external devices such as the social network service providing apparatus 20, the groupware 40, and the DB server 60.

In a preferred embodiment, the scheduling establishment service provided by the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 is used as a function added to the function of the social network service of the existing social network service providing apparatus 20 or as part of the functionality provided by the groupware 40. Can be used. In this case, the meeting organizer or the meeting attendee may access the social network service providing apparatus 20 (for example, a web page of the corresponding social network service) through various user terminals 30 or the groupware service through a terminal connected to the groupware 40. By accessing the provision screen, data necessary for establishing a meeting schedule may be input, and the meeting schedule calculated by the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 may be provided as a result value. In this case, the transceiver 51 passes through the network 10 various types of meeting information (eg, meeting information including a meeting name of the meeting, an expected meeting date, and an attendee) input by the meeting organizer on the screen for providing scheduling service. Also, the candidate meeting schedule calculated by the scheduling processor 55 is transmitted to the corresponding social network service providing apparatus 20 or the groupware 40 to which the conference organizer and the attendee are connected.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in an alternative embodiment, the scheduling establishment device 50 may be provided to the user as a unique social network service, in which case the user terminal 30 may directly access the scheduling establishment device 50. It may be.

The search unit 53 accesses the user information DB 61, the schedule information DB 63, the conference room information DB 65, and the conference information DB 67 of the DB server 60 to retrieve information. Have In an embodiment, the search unit 53 may search the user information DB 61 to select an attendee to attend the meeting, and may also search for location information of the attendee. In this case, the location information to be searched may be real-time location information provided by the mobile device of the attendee, or in alternative embodiments, may be location information (eg, work location) previously stored in the user information DB 61. have.

In addition, the search unit 53 may search the schedule information of the attendees in the schedule information DB 63 to find out the free time of the attendees, and search the meeting room information DB 65 to search for the specific meeting request date. Check the meeting room. In an alternative embodiment, the search unit 53 may be configured to check up to empty meeting rooms up to, for example, two days from the meeting request date. The retrieval unit 53 also has a function of retrieving the conference information necessary in the process of calculating the conference schedule from the scheduling processor 55 in the conference information DB 67.

In FIG. 2, the scheduling processor 55 calculates an optimal conference schedule based on the conference information of the conference to be established, the schedule information of the attendee, the available conference room information, and the user information of the attendee. In one embodiment, the scheduling processor 55 calculates a plurality of candidate meeting schedules based on the above-mentioned information, and receives the vote of the meeting attendees or the selection of the meeting organizer and selects the final meeting schedule among the candidate meeting schedules.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the scheduling processor 55 may calculate a candidate meeting schedule based on the physical distance between the location of the attendee and the available conference room and the number of the attendees. Candidate meetings may be plural and may be one in alternative embodiments.

In the above embodiment, the scheduling processor 55 is based on the numerical value assigned to the distance in proportion to the physical distance between the attendee's location and the available conference room, and the number of attendees at that location for each of the locations. The candidate schedule may be calculated, which will be described later with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

When a meeting schedule is finally selected and confirmed from the candidate meeting schedule, the result processing unit 57 transmits the schedule information and the meeting room information of the final meeting schedule to the schedule information DB 63 and the meeting room information DB 65, respectively, to the corresponding database. It has a function to input automatically. In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, when the groupware 40 also has a DB in the conference room management system 41 and the schedule management system 43, the result processing unit 57 includes conference room information and schedule information of the final conference schedule. It may also include a function to update the database by transmitting the DB in the meeting room management system 41 and the DB in the schedule management system 43, respectively.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a scheduling establishment process using a scheduling establishment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, a host hosting a conference may access the scheduling establishment device 50 through the host terminal, and participants in the conference may also be connected through the terminal. The organizer terminal and the attendee terminal may be any one of the various terminals 30 shown in FIG. 1, but in this drawing, the reference numeral 70 is used for the organizer terminal to distinguish the two.

The conference organizer may access the SNS providing webpage of the social network service providing apparatus 20 through the terminal 70 to bring up a screen to receive the scheduling establishment service of the present invention. Alternatively, in an alternative embodiment, the conference organizer may access the scheduling service providing screen of the present invention through a terminal connected to the groupware 40. The meeting organizer inputs meeting information on a new meeting to be set up on the screen for providing scheduling service. First, in step S101, the attendees for the conference to be established are selected. The conference organizer may search the user information DB 61 through the search unit 53 and select a meeting attendee.

In one embodiment, the meeting organizer may classify some of the selected meeting participants as important participants (step S103). The key participants are those who must attend the meeting as much as possible, and this can be taken into account when calculating the meeting schedule by selecting additional key participants. In an alternative embodiment, if there are no key participants, this may be done without proceeding.

The meeting organizer inputs meeting related contents in step S105. For example, you can enter the meeting name, the expected meeting date and time, and the priority information. Here, the priority information is information to be considered when selecting a candidate meeting schedule from among a plurality of meeting schedules searched, and may include, for example, at least one of the number of attendees, the number of important attendees, and the date and time of the meeting. In other words, the priority information may include criteria such as 'maximizing the number of attendees', 'the most important participants should attend the most', or 'set the earliest date and time'. According to an embodiment, priority information may not be input or two or more priorities may be input.

On the other hand, the input order of the information (S101 to S105) may be changed in the step (S101 to S105). For example, a meeting name or an expected meeting date and time may be entered first, and an attendee may be input, and the present invention is not limited to this input order.

If the meeting organizer executes scheduling after inputting various meeting information until step S105, the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 proceeds to calculate an optimal meeting schedule. In the illustrated embodiment, the search unit 53 retrieves an empty schedule of each participant in the schedule information DB 63 based on the expected date of the meeting from among the inputted meeting information, and empty in the conference room information DB 65. The conference room is searched for (step S107). Thereafter, in step S109, what information is used as the location information of the attendee. For example, one of the real-time location information provided by the mobile terminal of the attendee and the location information (for example, the work location) prestored in the user information DB 61 may be selected. It can be set in advance.

The scheduling establishment apparatus 50 checks the mobile location information according to the selection in the step S109 (S111) or retrieves the registered location information (S113) to find out the location information of the attendee, and then, the step ( Proceed to S115) to select a candidate meeting schedule. The step S115 will be described later in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

Referring back to FIG. 3, when the candidate meeting schedule is selected in step S115, the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 displays or transmits the candidate meeting schedule to the terminal 70 of the conference organizer (step S117). After confirming this in step S119, the conference organizer can manually change the meeting place if there is a particular desired meeting place or need to change some meeting schedules (step S121), and this step may be omitted according to an embodiment. Thereafter, the candidate meeting schedule is determined (step S123) and displayed or transmitted to the terminal 30 of all the participants (step S125).

At step S127, the attendees may check the selected candidate meeting schedule and, if necessary, request a change of location information used in the candidate meeting schedule selection process (step S129). For example, if the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 selects a candidate meeting schedule in consideration of the mobile location information of the attendee (step S111), each of the attendees is selected using the location information registered in advance in the user information DB 61. And the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 reselects the candidate meeting schedule in step S115 based on the changed location information.

Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S117 to step S129 again, and in step S131, the attendees can vote on the result of the newly selected candidate meeting schedule. That is, the attendees may select one of the candidate meeting schedules, and the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 calculates the voting result (step S133) and displays or transmits the result to the conference organizer terminal 70. The meeting organizer selects the final meeting schedule based on this voting result (step S135), and the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 receives this final meeting schedule and stores it in a database (step S137). That is, the meeting date and time of the last meeting schedule is input into the schedule information DB 63 and the conference room information is input into the conference room information DB 65. In an alternative embodiment, the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 may transmit and store the conference room information and the schedule information of the last conference schedule, respectively, to the databases in the conference room management system 41 and the schedule management system 43 of the groupware 40, respectively. have.

In step S139, the result of the final meeting schedule is displayed or transmitted to all the attendees, and all the attendees may check the final confirmed conference schedule (step S141). In one embodiment, the final confirmed meeting schedule includes the meeting name, date, location, and attendee.

Now, the process of calculating the candidate conference schedule in the scheduling processor 55 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a detailed flow according to an embodiment of the candidate conference schedule calculation step S115 of FIG. 3.

4, in step S201, a plurality of meeting schedules are calculated from the results retrieved in step S117 of FIG. That is, in step S117, the schedule information of the attendees and the available conference room information are respectively retrieved from the database. In step S201, the scheduling processor 55 matches the search results of the two databases to combine a plurality of specific conference rooms and specific conference dates. The meeting schedule can be calculated.

Thereafter, filtering (S203) a part of the calculated plurality of meeting schedules may be added. That is, when priority information is input in step S105 of FIG. 3, a part of the meeting schedule may be excluded based on the priority information. The priority information may include priority criteria for at least one of the number of participants, the number of important participants, and the date and time of the meeting, and the meeting does not meet the priority criteria according to the priority information of the plurality of meeting schedules. If there is a schedule, it is excluded from the plurality of meeting schedules. For example, when a person who is designated as an important participant is inputted as the priority information in step S105, which means that all of the persons designated as important attendees should attend, it is important among the plurality of meeting schedules calculated in the step S201. If there is a meeting schedule in which one or more participants are missing, the meeting schedule is excluded in this step (S203). The addition of this step (S203) has the advantage of reducing the amount of data to be processed in later steps (S205 and S207) to process the meeting scheduling procedure more quickly, but in an alternative embodiment, immediately following the step (S203) without going through It may proceed to step S205.

Step S205 is a step of calculating a score for each candidate meeting schedule for a plurality of candidate meeting schedules. In one embodiment, this step (S205) uses the attendee's location information, where the attendee's location information is real-time location information provided by the attendee's mobile device or the attendee's user information DB (601). It may be stored location information.

The scheduling establishment apparatus 50 may calculate a candidate meeting schedule based on the physical distance between the attendee's location and the available conference room and the number of attendees in step S205, and with reference to FIG. Let's explain.

5A and 5B illustrate an exemplary score calculation method in the score calculation step S205 of the conference schedule of FIG. 4. 5A and 5B, location A, location B, and location C refer to the physical locations of the attendees obtained from the location information of the attendees, and the numbers beside each location indicate the number of attendees at the location. Means. Conference Room X and Conference Room Y indicate available conference room locations. The number between room X or room Y and each location is a number assigned to this distance in proportion to the physical distance between the room and each location.

In the illustrated example, multiplying the number assigned to each distance by the number of people in the location, the total score is 2 * 1 + 2 * 2 + 3 * 3 = 15 for FIG. 5A and the total score is 2 * for FIG. 5B. 2 + 2 * 3 + 1 * 3 = 13 is calculated. As such, considering the distance and the number of people, it is determined that the case of FIG. 5B is more efficient, so that the conference room Y is selected as the final conference room. That is, for each of the plurality of meeting schedules, the distance between the meeting participants and the available meeting rooms is obtained and scores are calculated by using the number of people as weights, and the smaller the score value, the more efficient and optimal place. Can be selected.

Referring to FIG. 4 again, after calculating and sorting the scores for each of the plurality of meeting schedules in step S205, priority information is reflected in step S207. The priority information is input in step S105 of FIG. 3, and may include priority criteria regarding at least one of the number of attendees, the number of important attendees, and the date and time of the meeting. If 'Max' is entered as priority information, in this step (S207), the meeting schedules are arranged according to the low order of the scores calculated in the above step (S205), and the predetermined number of meeting schedules with the largest number of attendees is selected. This is selected as the candidate meeting schedule (step S209).

In another example, if the 'fast date' is entered as priority information in step S105, in step S207, a predetermined number of meeting schedules having a meeting on the earliest day among the meeting schedules arranged in the order of low score is obtained. And selecting it as a candidate meeting schedule (step S209), and in an alternative embodiment, the priority input procedure of step S105 may be omitted, in which case reflecting priority information in FIG. 4 (S207). O) and get the candidate meeting schedule. The number of candidate meetings to be selected may be plural and may be one in alternative embodiments.

6A to 6H illustrate an example of a conference scheduling process according to an embodiment of the present invention. 6A, 6D, and 6G are screen contents displayed on the terminal 70 of the conference organizer, and FIGS. 6E, 6F, and 6H are screen contents displayed on the terminal 30 of the conference attendee. In one example, one of various functions available on a web page screen providing a social network service may be a screen displayed when a function of 'conference scheduling is set' is selected. In addition to the contents shown on the screen, many other information may be displayed, but only the items necessary for the implementation of the present invention are shown in the drawings, and the screen configuration is only an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6A is a screen when the meeting organizer presses the 'Request for meeting' menu 81 to set up a meeting schedule, and corresponds to step S101 of FIG. If a participant setting menu 91 is selected as a submenu of the meeting request, the participant can be set for each group or individual. In this screen, Group A and Kim Chul-soo were selected.

FIG. 6B is a screen for selecting an important participant among the participants selected in FIG. 6A and corresponds to step 103 of FIG. 3. This step may be omitted when there are no important participants. In the illustrated embodiment, the main participant may be selected by selecting 'Making Participant' menu 93 from the submenu of the 'Request Meeting' menu 81. Selected.

6C is a screen where a meeting organizer enters meeting related contents and corresponds to step 105. The meeting organizer may select the 'scheduling meeting' menu 95 to enter a meeting name, date, time, and the like, and select one or more of the priorities provided in advance. Priorities can be added and deleted, and the number of selections can vary. In the illustrated embodiment, the maximum number of attendees may be selected as the first priority, and the attendance of the important persons may be selected as the second priority.

FIG. 6D shows a candidate meeting schedule selected by the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 on the screen based on the information input in FIG. 6C and corresponds to step S117. The meeting organizer may manually modify the meeting place if there is a particularly desired meeting place (step S121). The meeting organizer currently checks the four candidate meeting schedules of 'Priority 1' or 'Priority 4' and requests the meeting participants.

6E is a screen showing a candidate meeting schedule to Kang Dong-gu, who is a participant, and corresponds to step S127. Kang Dong-gu can view the candidate meeting schedule by clicking on the 'meeting request' menu 101 of the sub-menu of the 'requested meeting' menu (83), select the priority 2 (S131) and establish the scheduling Transmit to device 50.

6F is a candidate meeting schedule shown to Park Young-hee, who is a participant, also corresponding to step S127. The selected candidate meeting schedules are using real-time location information transmitted through Park's mobile terminal. To use the location information that is normally located instead of the current location, Park Young-hee can click the 'Change Location' button 105. (Step S129), and then, considering the existing position of Park Young-hee stored in the user information DB 61 (Step S113), the candidate meeting schedule selection procedure is re-executed (Steps S115 and Fig. 4), and the result is the screen of the meeting organizer. Appears in. This screen is the same as the screen of FIG. 6D, but since the candidate meeting schedule is reselected using the new location information, the content of each candidate meeting schedule will be different from that of FIG. 6D.

Regarding the newly calculated candidate meeting schedule result, the participants check the candidate meeting schedule again (step S127) and proceed with voting again (step S131). As shown in Fig. 6G, the conference organizer can check the voting result by selecting the 'voting result' menu 97, and manually selects priority 1 because the number of attendees is the highest priority (step S135). ), And send the result to the previous party.

6H corresponds to step S141 in which a screen of all participants has received a final confirmed conference schedule. As shown, the final confirmed conference schedule may display the conference name, date, location, and attendees.

As described above, the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 of the present invention can quickly and easily set the optimal meeting time and place through the association of the social network and the existing groupware. The scheduling establishment device 50 checks the available place and the conference room through the existing groupware, grasps the location of the current attendees in real time, and quickly delivers the optimal conference schedule through the social network service. The meeting attendees confirm and vote directly, and the scheduling establishment apparatus 50 calculates the result and delivers the result to the organizer, and the organizer finally makes a decision and announces it through the social network service. When using the social network service, not only the function can be easily added, but also a lot of advantages can be obtained in the speed of the transfer between the attendees, and the scheduling establishment device 50 automatically calculates the meeting schedule to reduce the time consumption and the attendees. Participation in person can reduce unnecessary iterations.

Although the present invention has been described by the embodiments and drawings as described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from this description. This is possible. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims.

10: network 20: social network service providing apparatus
30: user terminal 40: groupware
50: scheduling establishment device 51: transceiver
53: search unit 55: scheduling processing unit
57: result processing unit 60: DB server
61: user information DB 63: schedule information DB
65: Conference room information DB 67: Conference room information DB

Claims

In the scheduling establishment apparatus for establishing a meeting schedule,
Receiving meeting information including at least an expected meeting date of a meeting to be established and a list of attendees;
Retrieving schedule information and available conference room information of a meeting attendee from a database based on the conference information;
Calculating a plurality of meeting schedules from the searched results; And
Selecting a candidate meeting schedule from the plurality of meeting schedules based on the location information of the attendee.

The method of claim 1, wherein the calculating of the candidate meeting schedule comprises calculating a candidate meeting schedule based on the physical distance between the location of the attendee and the available conference room and the number of the attendees. How to establish a scheduling.

The method of claim 2, wherein the calculating of the candidate meeting schedule comprises: for each of the plurality of meeting schedules,
Assigning a numerical value to the distance in proportion to the physical distance between the attendee's location and the available conference room;
For each of the locations, multiplying the number of attendees at the location by a value assigned to the distance; And
Calculating a score for the corresponding conference schedule by adding all the multiplied result values;
And the candidate conference schedule is calculated based on the score calculated for each of the plurality of conference schedules.

The method of claim 1, wherein the location information of the attendee is real-time location information provided by the mobile device of the attendee.

The method of claim 1, wherein the location information of the attendee is information stored in advance in a database storing user information of the attendee.

The method of claim 1,
The meeting information further includes priority information for establishing a meeting schedule,
The calculating of the candidate conference schedule includes selecting a candidate conference schedule based on the priority information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the meeting information includes information on whether each participant is an important participant, and the priority information is a priority for at least one of a participant number, an important participant number, and a meeting date and time. Scheduling establishment method comprising a criterion.

The method according to claim 6,
And before the calculating of the candidate meeting schedule, excluding meeting schedules that do not meet the priority criteria according to the priority information among the plurality of meeting schedules, from the plurality of meeting schedules. Scheduling establishment method.

The method of claim 1, wherein after calculating the candidate meeting schedule,
Displaying the calculated candidate meeting schedule to attendees;
Receiving a request for changing location information of the attendee; And
Recalculating a candidate meeting schedule among the plurality of meeting schedules based on the changed location information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the candidate meeting schedule is plural, and after calculating the candidate meeting schedule or recalculating the candidate meeting schedule,
Displaying the candidate meeting schedule on a participant;
Receiving voting information for the plurality of candidate conference schedules from an attendee; And
Selecting a final meeting schedule based on the voting information.

In the scheduling establishment apparatus,
A transmitter / receiver configured to receive conference information including at least an expected meeting date of a conference to be established and a list of attendees;
A search unit that searches attendee schedule information, available conference room information, and user information of the attendee; And
And a scheduling processor configured to calculate a candidate conference schedule of the conference to be established based on the conference information, schedule information, conference room information, and user information.
And the user information includes location information of an attendee.

The method of claim 11, wherein the scheduling processing unit,
Scheduling establishment, wherein the schedule information and the meeting room information are searched based on the meeting information to calculate a plurality of meeting schedules, and a candidate meeting schedule is calculated among the plurality of meeting schedules based on the location information of the attendee. Device.

The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the scheduling processor calculates a candidate meeting schedule based on a physical distance between the location of the attendee and the available conference room and the number of the attendees.

The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the scheduling processor is further configured to determine a value assigned to the distance in proportion to a physical distance between the location of the attendee and the available conference room, and the number of attendees at the location for each of the locations. And a schedule of candidates is calculated.

The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the location information of the attendee is real-time location information provided by the mobile device of the attendee.

The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the location information of the attendee is information previously stored in a database storing the user information.

The method of claim 11,
The transceiver establishes a scheduling apparatus, characterized in that for transmitting the candidate meeting schedule to the terminal of the attendee and receiving voting information for the candidate meeting schedule from the terminal of each attendee.

The method of claim 17,
If a final meeting schedule is selected based on at least one of the voting information or user input, a result processing unit for transmitting the schedule information and the meeting room information of the last meeting schedule to a schedule information database and a meeting room information database, respectively; A scheduling establishment apparatus.

A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 10 on a computer.