WO2023080380A1

WO2023080380A1 - Method for managing work progress situation by state machine, and device using same

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Publication number: WO2023080380A1
Application number: PCT/KR2022/009134
Authority: WO
Inventors: 하상영
Original assignee: (주) 바우디움
Priority date: 2021-11-08
Filing date: 2022-06-27
Publication date: 2023-05-11
Also published as: KR102412088B1

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for managing a work progress situation and a device using same. Specifically, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in response to a work registration request which is a signal for requesting registration of work, a computing device: generates work information that is information including a name of the work and a progress situation of the work; when a work progress situation change request, which is a signal for requesting a change of the progress situation of the work to a target progress situation, is obtained, determines, using a state machine, whether the requested change from a current progress situation of the progress situation to the target progress situation is permitted; and if the change from the current progress situation of the work to the target progress situation is permitted, updates the progress situation of the work to the target progress situation.

Description

Method for managing job progress by state machine and device using the same

In the present disclosure, a method for managing a progress status of a work and an apparatus using the same are disclosed. Specifically, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in response to a job registration request, which is a signal requesting registration of a job, the computing device generates job information, which is information including a name of the job and a progress status of the job. and, when a task progress change request, which is a signal for requesting a change in the progress of the task to the target progress, is obtained, whether the change from the current progress of the requested progress to the target progress is allowed. is determined as a state machine, and if a change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is permitted, update the progress of the task to the target progress.

Thanks to the development of software related to schedule management or task management, techniques for systematically managing the progress of schedules or individual tasks are also developing.

However, until now, the technical concept of displaying a user interface element, in particular, a checkbox, for each task input by the user in advance, and indicating only the registration (input) or completion of the corresponding task depending on whether or not the check is checked has been widely used. .

However, this is due to the 'reservation' status in which the job is requested to be performed at a specific point in time between registration and completion of the job, the 'in progress' status in which the job is currently being performed, the 'cancellation' status in which the job is withdrawn, and circumstances change. There was a limitation in not being able to easily express various states, such as the 'postponed' state.

(Prior Patent Document 1) US 2016-0077911 A1

Therefore, in the present disclosure, beyond the limitations of the prior art described above, it is possible to easily set and display various states of a task between registration and completion of a task, and transition between states according to rules by applying a state machine. It is an object of the present invention to provide a work progress management method and a device using the same.

The characteristic configuration of the present invention for achieving the object of the present invention as described above and realizing the characteristic effects of the present invention described later is as follows.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for managing the progress of a task by a state machine is provided, the method comprising: in response to a task registration request, which is a signal requesting registration of the task, Generating, by a computing device, job information, which is information including a name of the job and a progress status of the job, wherein the progress status is selected from a progress status set, and the progress status set is registered and complete ( completed, and further includes at least one of reserved, in progress, canceled, and postponed, and is initialized with registration when the job information is generated. step; When a task progress change request, which is a signal for requesting a change in the progress status of the task to a target progress status, is obtained, the computing device permits the change of the requested progress status from the current progress status to the target progress status. a job progress status change verification step of determining whether or not to change using the state machine; and a task progress updating step of updating, by the computing device, the progress of the task to the target progress if a change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is permitted.

Preferably, the state machine is a set of pairs of a standard progress and a next progress from which change is allowed: , (registration, cancellation), (reservation, in progress), (reservation, cancellation), (reservation, postponement), (in progress, complete), (in progress, cancellation), (in progress, postponement), (cancellation, register), (deferred, register)} is a finite state machine.

Advantageously, the generating of the job information comprises obtaining the job registration request including the name of the job from the computing device or a terminal that is another device linked to the computing device by providing a predetermined first user interface. contains more

Preferably, in the task progress change verification step, by providing a predetermined second user interface, the computing device or a terminal that is another device linked to the computing device changes from the current progress status of the task to the target progress status. The method further includes obtaining a request for changing the job progress status.

More preferably, by providing on the second user interface one or more candidate progress situations to which a change from the current progress status of the task is permitted, the target progress status is selected from the provided candidate progress statuses.

Even more preferably, the second user interface is provided with a name of a progress status of the job and an image display corresponding to the progress status.

Even more preferably, an explanatory text corresponding to the progress situation is provided on the second user interface, or an explanatory text corresponding to the progress status is provided on the second user interface as a response to a predetermined operation on the second user interface. An explanatory text is displayed.

Advantageously, the method comprises, if a change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is not permitted, the computing device or another device interoperable with the computing device by providing a predetermined third user interface. Further, a task progress status forcible updating step of acquiring whether to force a change to the target progress status from a terminal and, if the change is forced, updating, by the computing device, the progress status of the task to the target progress status. include

According to another aspect of the present invention, a computer program comprising instructions implemented to perform the methods according to the present invention is also provided. For example, such a computer program may be stored on a machine-readable non-transitory recording medium.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computing device for managing the progress of a job by a state machine, including: a communication unit for obtaining a job registration request, which is a signal for requesting job registration; and a job information generation process for generating job information, which is information including a name of the job and a progress status of the job, in response to the job registration request, requesting a change of the progress status of the job to a target progress status through the communication unit. a job progress change verification process for determining, by the state machine, whether or not a change of the requested progress status from the current progress status to the target progress status is permitted when a job progress change request, which is a signal to do so, is obtained; and and a processor performing a task progress update process of updating the progress of the task to the target progress if a change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is permitted.

According to the present invention, there is an effect of improving user convenience by providing setting and displaying various states of a job between registration and completion of a job.

The accompanying drawings for use in describing the embodiments of the present invention are only some of the embodiments of the present invention, and those of ordinary skill in the art (hereinafter referred to as "ordinary technicians") Other figures may be obtained on the basis of these figures without any effort to the extent of inventing the invention.

1 is a conceptual diagram schematically illustrating an exemplary configuration of a computing device that performs a method for managing the progress of a task by a state machine (hereinafter referred to as “method for managing task progress”) according to the present disclosure.

2 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating hardware or software components of a computing device that performs a method for managing a task progress according to the present disclosure.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a task progress management method according to the present disclosure.

4 is a diagram showing a first user interface provided according to an embodiment of a task progress management method of the present disclosure by way of example.

5 is a diagram showing a second user interface provided according to an embodiment of a task progress management method of the present disclosure by way of example.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying an image corresponding to a progress status of a task in an embodiment of a task progress management method of the present disclosure.

7 is an exemplary block diagram of a state machine used in the task progress management method according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a view showing explanatory text corresponding to a progress status displayed in the second user interface illustrated in FIG. 5 by way of example.

FIG. 9 exemplarily illustrates an alternative provided to change the progress status of a task in the second user interface illustrated in FIG. 5 .

10 is a diagram showing a third user interface provided according to an embodiment of a task progress management method of the present disclosure by way of example.

11 is a diagram showing a fourth user interface provided to customize a progress set used in the task progress management method of the present disclosure by way of example.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The following detailed description of the present invention refers to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate specific embodiments in which the present invention may be practiced in order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clear. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable a person skilled in the art to practice the present invention. In the description with reference to the accompanying drawings, the same reference numerals are given to the same components regardless of reference numerals, and overlapping descriptions thereof will be omitted.

Specific structural or functional descriptions of the embodiments are disclosed for illustrative purposes only, and may be modified and implemented in various forms. Therefore, the embodiments are not limited to the specific disclosed form, and the scope of the present disclosure includes changes, equivalents, or substitutes included in the technical spirit.

Terms such as "first" or "second" may be used to describe various components, but such terms are to be interpreted solely for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another, and no order is implied. because it doesn't For example, a first element may be termed a second element, and similarly, a second element may be termed a first element.

It should be understood that when an element is referred to as being “connected” to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, but other elements may exist in the middle.

Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this disclosure, terms such as "comprise" or "have" are intended to designate that the described feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof exists, but one or more other features or numbers, It should be understood that the presence or addition of steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof is not precluded.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the related art, and unless explicitly defined in the present disclosure, interpreted in an ideal or excessively formal meaning. It doesn't work.

Moreover, the present invention covers all possible combinations of the embodiments presented in this disclosure. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different, but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, specific shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented in one embodiment in another embodiment without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Additionally, it should be understood that the location or arrangement of individual components within each disclosed embodiment may be changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the detailed description that follows is not intended to be taken in a limiting sense. Like reference numbers in the drawings indicate the same or similar function throughout the various aspects.

In this disclosure, unless otherwise indicated or clearly contradicted by context, terms referred to in the singular encompass the plural unless the context requires otherwise. In addition, in describing the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily practice the present invention.

1 is a conceptual diagram schematically illustrating an exemplary configuration of a computing device that performs a task progress management method according to the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 1 , a computing device 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a communication unit 110 and a processor 120, and communicates with an external computing device (not shown) through the communication unit 110. You can communicate directly or indirectly.

Specifically, the computing device 100 may include typical computer hardware (eg, a computer, processor, memory, storage, input and output devices, and other components of conventional computing devices; a router; electronic communication devices, such as switches, switches, etc.; electronic information storage systems, such as network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN)) and computer software (i.e., enabling computing devices to It may be to achieve the desired system performance by using a combination of instructions). The storage may include a storage device such as a hard disk or a universal serial bus (USB) memory as well as a storage device based on a network connection such as a cloud server.

The communication unit 110 of such a computing device may transmit and receive requests and responses between other computing devices that are interlocked, for example, a dedicated storage, for example, a database server, and the like. As an example, such requests and responses are the same TCP ( It may be performed by a Transmission Control Protocol (Session) session, but is not limited thereto, and may be transmitted and received as a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) datagram, for example.

Specifically, the communication unit 110 may be implemented in the form of a communication module including a communication interface. For example, communication interfaces include Wireless LAN (WLAN), Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) Direct, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Wireless Broadband (WiBro), World interoperability for Microwave access (WiMax), High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), etc. Including wireless Internet interface of Bluetooth™, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification), Infrared Data Association (IrDA), UWB (Ultra-WideBand), ZigBee, and NFC (Near Field Communication) short-range communication interfaces. can do. In addition, the communication interface may represent all interfaces (eg, a bus, a wired/wireless interface) through which the processor communicates with the outside.

For example, the communication unit 110 may transmit/receive data from another computing device through an appropriate communication interface. In addition, in a broad sense, the communication unit 110 may include a keyboard, a mouse, other external input devices, a printing device, a display, and other external output devices for receiving commands or instructions, or may be interlocked with them. In order to enable interaction with a user by displaying and providing an appropriate user interface to a user of a computing device, such as a server, terminal PC, or portable terminal, the computing device 100 has a built-in display unit or the communication unit 110. It is known that it can be interlocked with an external display device through. For example, such a display unit or display device may be a touch screen capable of touch input.

In addition, the processor 120 of the computing device may include a micro processing unit (MPU), a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a neural processing unit (NPU) or a tensor processing unit (TPU), a cache memory ), and a hardware configuration such as a data bus. In addition, it may further include a software configuration of an operating system and an application that performs a specific purpose.

Now, with reference to FIGS. 2 to 11 , the task progress management method according to the present disclosure will be described in detail below.

2 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating hardware or software components of a computing device 200 for performing a task progress management method according to the present disclosure, and FIG. 3 is a task progress management method according to the present disclosure. It is a flow chart illustrating one embodiment.

Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3 , first, the task progress management method of the present disclosure includes a computing device 200 of a user who wants to register a task or a terminal 300 that is another computing device that works with the computing device 200. In response to a job registration request, which is a signal for requesting registration of the job, obtained from ), the job information generation module 210 implemented by the computing device 200 includes the name of the job and the progress of the job. A step of allowing a predetermined storage 240 to hold the created job information by generating job information that is information to do (job information generation step; S100).

The progress is selected from a set of progress, the set of progress including registered and completed, reserved, in progress, canceled and postponed. It further includes at least one of, and in step S100 when generating the job information, it is initialized by registration. A person skilled in the art can understand that the names of individual progresses such as 'registration' and 'complete' are only appropriately designated in relation to the role of the individual progresses, and are arbitrary and may be specifically replaced with other names. There will be.

In the job information generation step (S100), the job registration request including the name of the job can be obtained from the computing device 200 or the terminal 300 by providing a predetermined first user interface. The interface is as illustrated in FIG. 4 .

Referring to FIG. 4 , a text field 410 for entering the name of a job, a completion button 420 for completing the input and triggering a job registration request, and canceling the input A cancel button 430 is provided to enable this.

Referring back to FIGS. 2 and 3 , after the task information generation step (S100), the task progress management method of the present disclosure is a task progress signal requesting to change the task progress status to the target progress status. When the status change request is obtained from the computing device 100 or the terminal 300 (S210), the progress status change verification module 220 implemented by the computing device 100, in the current progress status of the requested progress status A step of determining (S220) whether a change to the target progress status is allowed by using the state machine (a task progress change verification step; S200) is further included.

In the task progress change verification step (S200), a task progress change request from the computing device 200 or terminal 300 from the current progress status of the task to the target progress status is provided by providing a predetermined second user interface. Obtaining (S210) may be further included.

5 is a diagram showing a series of views 500a to 500d of a second user interface provided according to an embodiment of a task progress management method of the present disclosure, and FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating task progress of the present disclosure It is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying images 610 to 660 corresponding to the progress of a task in an embodiment of a method for managing a situation, and FIG. 7 is an example of a state machine used in the method for managing a progress of a task according to the present disclosure. It is a block diagram.

Referring to FIG. 5 , in step S210 , a name 510 of a progress status of a task and an image display 520a corresponding to the progress status of the task may be provided to the second user interface 500a. 6, an image corresponding to 'registration' is displayed 610, an image corresponding to 'complete' is displayed 620, an image corresponding to 'reservation' is displayed 630, and an image corresponding to 'in progress' is displayed ( 640), image display 650 corresponding to 'cancel', and image display 660 corresponding to 'postponement' are exemplified.

In step S210, one or more candidate progress situations 520b to 520d that are allowed to be changed from the current progress status 520a of the task are provided on the second user interface 500a to 500d, thereby providing the provided candidate progress statuses. Among the situations 520b to 520d, the target progress situation may be selected. For example, the user repeatedly clicks or taps an area where the image display 520a of the current progress is located, thereby displaying the target progress (currently displayed on the second user interface). 520b to 520d) can be selected, and the 'input completion' button 530 can be manipulated to complete the selection of the target progress status and trigger a task progress change request.

More specifically, reference 520b is displayed when there is an operation on 520a, 520c is displayed when there is an operation on 520b, and 520d is displayed when there is an operation on 520c. , and if there is an operation for reference numeral 520d, reference numeral 520a is displayed again.

Of course, the user may manipulate the 'cancel' button 550 to cancel the change in the progress of the job.

Candidate progresses 520b to 520d that are allowed to change from the task's current progress 520a can be determined by the state machine. Specifically, the state machine is a set of pairs of a standard progress and a next progress that is allowed to change from the standard progress, {(registered, completed), (registered, reserved), (registered, in progress) , (registration, cancellation), (reservation, in progress), (reservation, cancellation), (reservation, postponement), (in progress, complete), (in progress, cancellation), (in progress, postponement), (cancellation, registration), (deferral, registration)} as shown in the directed graph of FIG. 6 .

According to this exemplary state machine, when a task's current progress is 'Cancel', it is not allowed to change to 'Postpone'. On the other hand, when the current progress is 'in progress', such as the task having the name 510 of 'weeding' illustrated in FIG. do.

Meanwhile, in addition to displaying images related to the progress status, explanatory text corresponding to the progress status may be provided. For example, explanatory text corresponding to the progress status may be displayed on the second user interface as a response to a predetermined manipulation of the second user interface.

Referring to FIG. 8 , for example, a predetermined manipulation of an image display 820 related to an 'in progress' progress, such as hovering a mouse pointer or finger touch for a certain period of time, right-clicking a mouse, and the like. As a response to various manipulations such as, an explanatory text corresponding to the progress, 'Please change the registered items to this display.' Helps understand progress. In addition to this, a person skilled in the art may assume various modifications in which a name of a specific progress situation, an image display related to the progress status, and an explanatory text are provided in response to a user's manipulation.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of an alternative provided to change the progress status of a task in the second user interface illustrated in FIG. 5, and FIG. It is a diagram showing the provided third user interface by way of example.

If the 'custom' button 430 is manipulated on the second user interface illustrated in FIG. 5 above, in response to this, the computing device 200 or terminal 300 displays all progress belonging to the progress set as illustrated in FIG. 9 . Since items 970 of the status can be enumerated, the current progress status 920 can be excluded from the enumerated items of the progress status because it is for a change from the current progress status 920 . The user may perform an operation (e.g., click or tap) to select an arbitrary item from the progress items 970 on the second user interface, and whether the change is allowed for a job progress change request triggered thereby is determined by the state machine (S220).

Referring back to FIGS. 2 and 3 , when it is determined in step S220 that the change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is permitted, the task progress implemented by the computing device 100 is updated. The module 230 performs a task progress update step (S300) of updating the progress status of the task to the target progress status and causing the storage 240 to store the updated progress status.

Conversely, if it is determined in step S220 that the change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is not allowed, as illustrated in FIG. 10, by providing a predetermined third user interface 1000. Obtains whether to force a change to the target progress from the computing device 200 or terminal 300, and when the change is forced (S250), the task progress update module 230, the progress of the task Force update the status to the target progress status. The third user interface 1000 may show an image display 1020 corresponding to the current progress status and an image display 1080 corresponding to the target progress status in order to arouse the user, and a 'yes' button and a 'no' button By providing, it is possible to receive an input from the user whether to force a change to the target progress situation.

A person skilled in the art reading this disclosure may name each of the progresses belonging to the progress set as registered, completed, reserved, in progress, canceled, and postponed. ), several variants of referring to each by a name other than ) may be envisaged. Some of those variants provide certain user interface elements that enable customization to allow for changing the names of progressions, images corresponding to progressions, and descriptive texts for progressions. It may include the step of doing, and those skilled in the art will be able to easily implement it based on the foregoing. That is, the name, image, and description text of each progress situation belonging to the progress status set can be changed.

In addition, in one variation of the present disclosure, the remaining progress conditions other than 'registration' and 'complete' are not essential, so whether or not to use each of the remaining progress conditions may be changed. In short, the progress set can also be customized, and a person skilled in the art can easily implement a step of providing certain interface elements that enable such customization, as illustrated in FIG. 11 .

As described above, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that in the method for managing work progress of the present disclosure, the precedence may be reversed between various steps unless it is logically necessary. That is, despite the above description, those skilled in the art will understand that all the steps described above can be interchanged regardless of the size of the numbers indicated to refer to the steps unless logical necessity intervenes.

In addition, creation of a job, updating of a progress status of a job, etc. may be performed once, but may be performed intermittently or repeatedly by continuously being triggered by a user's manipulation.

Based on the description of various embodiments of the present disclosure, a person skilled in the art can determine the method and / or processes of the present invention, and the steps are hardware, software, or hardware and software suitable for a particular application. It can be clearly understood that any combination can be realized.

In addition, today's skilled artisans who have read this disclosure are familiar with various user interfaces that can be provided through computing devices and terminals, so detailed information about the configuration of the user interface mentioned in the individual steps constituting the methods described in this disclosure Regardless of the explanation, those skilled in the art will be able to easily assume various user interfaces that enable various user manipulations necessary for the method of the present disclosure.

The hardware may include a general purpose computer and/or a dedicated computing device or a specific computing device or a particular aspect or component of a specific computing device. The processes may include one or more processors, e.g., microprocessors, controllers, e.g., microcontrollers, embedded microcontrollers, microcomputers, arithmetic logic units (ALUs), digital signal processors, having internal and/or external memory. , for example, can be realized by a programmable digital signal processor or other programmable device. Additionally, or alternatively, the processes may use an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), programmable gate array, such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA), programmable logic unit (PLU) or programmable array logic (Programmable Array Logic; PAL) or any other device capable of executing and responding to other instructions, any other device or combination of devices that may be configured to process electronic signals. A processing device may run an operating system and one or more software applications running on the operating system. A processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to execution of software. For convenience of understanding, there are cases in which one processing device is used, but those skilled in the art will understand that the processing device includes a plurality of processing elements and/or a plurality of types of processing elements. It can be seen that it can include. For example, a processing device may include a plurality of processors or a processor and a controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as parallel processors.

Software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of the foregoing, and may independently or collectively configure a processing device to operate as desired. ) command to the processing unit. Software and/or data may be any tangible machine, component, physical device, virtual equipment, computer storage medium or device, intended to be interpreted by or provide instructions or data to a processing device. , or may be permanently or temporarily embodied in a transmitted signal wave. Software may be distributed on networked computer systems and stored or executed in a distributed manner. Software and data may be stored on one or more machine-readable recording media.

Furthermore, the subject matter of the technical solution of the present invention or parts contributing to the prior art may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer components and recorded on a machine-readable medium. Machine-readable media may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on a machine-readable recording medium may be specially designed and configured for the embodiment or may be known and usable to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of machine-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and Blu-rays, and floptical disks. ), and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include stored and compiled or interpreted for execution on any one of the foregoing devices, as well as a heterogeneous combination of processors, processor architectures, or different combinations of hardware and software, or any other machine capable of executing program instructions. Machine code, which can be created using a structured programming language such as C, an object-oriented programming language such as C++, or a high-level or low-level programming language (assembly language, hardware description languages, and database programming languages and technologies), This includes not only bytecode, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

Therefore, in one aspect according to the present invention, when the above-described methods and combinations thereof are performed by one or more computing devices, the methods and combinations of methods may be implemented as executable code that performs each step. In another aspect, the method may be implemented as systems performing the steps, the methods may be distributed in several ways across devices or all functions may be integrated into one dedicated, stand-alone device or other hardware. In another aspect, the means for performing the steps associated with the processes described above may include any of the hardware and/or software described above. All such sequential combinations and combinations are intended to fall within the scope of this disclosure.

For example, the hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa. The hardware device may include a processor such as an MPU, CPU, GPU, TPU coupled to a memory such as ROM/RAM for storing program instructions and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory, and external devices and signals It may include a communication unit capable of sending and receiving. In addition, the hardware device may include a keyboard, mouse, and other external input devices for receiving commands written by developers.

In the above, the present invention has been described with specific details such as specific components and limited embodiments and drawings, but these are provided to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, Those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may seek various modifications and variations from these descriptions.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be limited to the above-described embodiments, and the claims attached to this disclosure as well as all modifications equivalent or equivalent to these claims are the spirit of the present invention. would be said to fall into the category of For example, the described techniques may be performed in an order different from the method described, and/or components of the described system, structure, device, circuit, etc. may be combined or combined in a different form than the method described, or other components may be used. Or even if it is replaced or substituted by equivalents, appropriate results can be achieved.

Such equivalent or equivalent modifications will include, for example, logically equivalent methods that can produce the same results as those performed by the method according to the present invention. The scope should not be limited by the above examples, and should be understood in the broadest sense permitted by law.

Claims

A method for managing the progress of a task by a state machine, comprising:

In response to a job registration request, which is a signal requesting registration of a job, generating, by a computing device, job information, which is information including a name of the job and a progress status of the job, the progress status is selected from a progress status set. The selected progress status set includes registered and completed, and further includes at least one of reserved, in progress, canceled, and postponed, wherein the Job information creation step that is initialized by registration when generating job information;

When a task progress change request, which is a signal for requesting a change in the progress status of the task to a target progress status, is obtained, the computing device permits the change of the requested progress status from the current progress status to the target progress status. a job progress status change verification step of determining whether or not to change using the state machine; and

A task progress update step of updating, by the computing device, the progress of the task to the target progress if a change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is permitted.

including,

the state machine is a finite state machine defined as a set of pairs of a reference progress and a next progress from which changes are permitted;

In the step of verifying the work progress change,

Characterized in that it is determined that the change is allowed when a pair of the current progress and the target progress is included in the set of pairs,

In the step of verifying the work progress change,

obtaining a request for changing the task progress from the current progress of the task to the target progress from the computing device or a terminal that is another device linked to the computing device by providing a predetermined second user interface; contains,

A task progress management method for supporting selection of the target progress status from among the provided candidate progress statuses by providing one or more candidate progress statuses that are allowed to change from the current progress status of the task on the second user interface. .
According to claim 1,

The state machine is a set of pairs of a baseline progress and the next progress for which changes from the baseline progress are permitted: {(registered, completed), (registered, reserved), (registered, in progress), , cancellation), (reservation, in progress), (reservation, cancellation), (reservation, postponement), (in progress, complete), (in progress, cancellation), (in progress, postponement), (cancellation, registration), (defer, register)}, a method for managing work progress, which is a finite state machine.
According to claim 1,

The task information generation step,

The task progress management method further comprising obtaining the job registration request including the name of the job from a terminal that is the computing device or another device linked to the computing device by providing a predetermined first user interface.
According to claim 1,

The second user interface is provided with a name of the progress of the task and an image display corresponding to the progress.
According to claim 4,

An explanatory text corresponding to the progress status is provided on the second user interface, or the explanatory text corresponding to the progress status is displayed on the second user interface as a response to a predetermined operation on the second user interface. , how to manage task progress.
According to claim 1,

If a change from the current progress of the task to the target progress is not allowed, a predetermined third user interface is provided to change the target progress from the computing device or a terminal that is another device linked to the computing device. Task progress compulsory update step of acquiring whether to force a change of the task and, if the change is forced, updating the progress of the task to the target progress, by the computing device.

Further comprising a, task progress management method.
A computer program, stored in a machine-readable recording medium, comprising instructions implemented to cause a computing device to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 6.
A computing device that manages the progress of a task by a state machine, comprising:

a communication unit for acquiring a job registration request, which is a signal requesting job registration; and

A process of generating job information, which is information including a name of the job and a progress status of the job, in response to the job registration request, wherein the progress status is selected from a progress status set, and the progress status set is registered and completed, and further includes at least one of reserved, in progress, canceled, and postponed, and is initialized with registration when the job information is generated. When a task information generation process, when a task progress change request, which is a signal for requesting a change in the progress status of the task to a target progress status through the communication unit, is obtained, the requested progress status changes from the current progress status to the target progress status. a task progress change verification process for determining with the state machine whether or not a change of the task is allowed; Tasks that update with progress The processor that performs the process of updating progress

including,

the state machine is a finite state machine defined as a set of pairs of a reference progress and a next progress from which changes are permitted;

The work progress change verification process,

Characterized in that it is determined that the change is allowed when a pair of the current progress and the target progress is included in the set of pairs,

the processor,

In the work progress change verification process,

The current progress of the task from an input device or terminal linked via the communication unit by providing a predetermined second user interface through a display device linked via the communication unit or a terminal that is another computing device linked via the communication unit. obtaining the task progress change request from the situation to the target progress status;

In the work progress change verification process,

causing one or more candidate progresses, to which a change from the current progress of the task is allowed, to be presented on the second user interface, so that the processor supports the target progress to be selected from among the provided candidate progresses, Work progress management device.
According to claim 8,

The state machine is a set of pairs of a baseline progress and the next progress for which changes from the baseline progress are permitted: {(registered, completed), (registered, reserved), (registered, in progress), , cancellation), (reservation, in progress), (reservation, cancellation), (reservation, postponement), (in progress, complete), (in progress, cancellation), (in progress, postponement), (cancellation, registration), (defer, register)}, a finite state machine, a task progress management unit.
According to claim 8,

the processor,

In the process of generating job information,

A predetermined first user interface is provided through a terminal that is a display device interlocked via the communication unit or another computing device interlocked via the communication unit, thereby including an input device interlocked via the communication unit or the name of the job from the terminal. To obtain the job registration request, the job progress management device.