JP2002352046A - Electronic secretary device and electronic secretary system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic secretary device and an secretary system which enable a manager to easily recognize the condition of conduct of a scheduled job of a managed person to support his or her conduct of the scheduled job. SOLUTION: An electronic secretary device 3 informs a managed person 5 of schedule contents at a scheduled contact time. When the managed person 5 is out, an electronic mail informing him or her of the schedule is transmitted to a mobile terminal device 18 of the managed person 5. The managed person 5 uses the mobile terminal device 18 to generate a response mail responding to the contact and transmits it. When receiving the response mail, the electronic secretary device 4 informs the manager that the response has been received. When the manager 4 is out, the electronic secretary device 3 generates an electronic mail reporting the response result and transmits it to a mobile terminal device 17 of the manager 4 or a PC 14 which the manager 4 uses in an office 11.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to an electronic secretary device and an electronic secretary system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a typical home, a family member's schedule is written in a calendar such as a calendar, and an activity schedule for the day is confirmed on the calendar to act. If a meal schedule with a friend or a meeting of a neighborhood association is written in the schedule, a person with a schedule (hereinafter referred to as the person) checks the schedule and confirms another person. We can expect support from family members, such as calling out that there is a plan. In addition, the schedule that is repeated on the same day and time every week, such as a child's study school, may be remembered by the child himself and his / her parent. When it is almost time to go to the school, it is common for parents to call their child (the person) and encourage them to go to the school. Also, when the child (person) is nearing the time to go to the study cram school, it is possible to make contact using the mobile phone provided to the child.

On the other hand, with the spread of personal computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs), scheduler software is increasingly used. Generally, such scheduler software informs the user that there is a schedule by sounding an alarm when the scheduled time approaches. It is also possible to register the schedule of the whole family in the scheduler software, and each family can manage the schedule of another person.

[0004]

However, it is not always possible to expect family support in fulfilling the person's schedule. Even if the family's schedule is written in the calendar, if you do not notice it, you can not call out. Further, even if the family teaches that the subject is scheduled in the morning of the scheduled day, the subject and the family may forget by the scheduled time.

[0005] Even if the schedule of the whole family is registered and managed in the scheduler software, another person of the family can directly call the schedule to confirm whether or not the individual is performing the schedule. Since it is necessary to confirm, it is extremely complicated.

[0006] Such a problem is common when an administrator manages the schedule of a managed person and supports the managed person, such as a teacher and a student, and a boss and a subordinate of a company.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an electronic secretary device which enables an administrator to easily grasp the status of scheduled execution of a manager and support the manager's scheduled execution. And an electronic secretary system.

[0008]

In order to solve this problem, the present invention manages the schedule of an administrator, notifies the administrator of the schedule when the scheduled contact time comes, and further communicates the schedule to the administrator. Was automatically notified to the administrator of the response result to.

[0009] This allows the administrator to easily know the response result of the administrator (the person) to the scheduled message. For example, if the administrator does not respond to the scheduled message, the administrator can respond to the scheduled message. It will be possible to contact the manager and encourage him to fulfill his schedule.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An electronic secretary according to a first aspect of the present invention has a schedule book database for registering a schedule of an administrator and a schedule book database registered at the scheduled contact time. A schedule communication means for communicating the schedule to the manager directly or via a communication medium; and a manager for managing the manager with respect to a result of the manager's response to the communication performed by the schedule manager. Alternatively, a configuration including a response notifying unit for notifying via a communication medium is adopted.

[0011] With this configuration, it is possible to notify the manager of the schedule, automatically notify the manager of the response result, and easily notify the manager of the response result to the manager's schedule notification. Therefore, for example, if the administrator does not respond to the schedule notification, the administrator can contact the administrator and urge the administrator to execute the schedule.

[0012] The electronic secretary device according to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, further comprises an out-of-administrator outgoing management means for managing whether or not the out-of-administrator is out of the office, and When the managed person going out management means indicates that the managed person is out, the schedule is notified to the destination via a communication medium, and when the managed person is out of the managed person, the scheduled communication is performed. The means is to notify the manager directly of the schedule.

According to this configuration, whether or not the manager is out is managed and the communication method is changed based on the management. Therefore, the schedule is notified whether the manager is out or not. Then, the response result can be notified to the administrator.

An electronic secretary device according to a third aspect of the present invention is the electronic secretary device according to the first or second aspect, further comprising an out-of-manager managing means for managing whether or not the manager is out of the office, and a response notifying means. When the manager-outgoing management means indicates that the manager is out, the response result is notified to a destination via a communication medium when the manager is out, and when the administrator indicates that the manager is not out, the response notifying means is provided. Decided to notify the administrator directly of the response result.

According to this configuration, the manager manages whether or not the user is out of the office and changes the notification method based on the management.
Regardless of whether the administrator is out of the office or not, the administrator can be reliably notified of the response result to the scheduled notification of the administrator.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first to third aspects, the schedule communication means schedules a time obtained by subtracting a traveling time from the current location of the manager to the destination from the scheduled time. A scheduled contact time determining means for automatically determining the contact time is further provided.

Thus, based on the scheduled destination and the scheduled time, the travel time from the current location to the destination time is subtracted from the scheduled disclosure time to automatically determine the scheduled contact time,
Since the scheduled contact is made at this scheduled contact time, the convenience of the manager is further enhanced.

An electronic secretary system according to a fifth aspect of the present invention includes an administrator terminal device used by an administrator, an electronic secretary device equipped with a schedule book database for registering the schedule of the administrator, In the electronic secretary system configured, the electronic secretary device, schedule contact means to contact the managed terminal device the schedule registered in the schedule book database when the scheduled contact time, Response notification means for notifying an administrator who manages the managed person of a response result from the managed terminal device to the communication made by the scheduled communication means.

With this configuration, the schedule is notified to the administrator terminal used by the administrator, the response result from the administrator terminal is automatically notified to the administrator, and the administrator is notified of the schedule. Since the response result to the scheduled message can be easily notified to the administrator, for example, if the administrator does not respond to the scheduled message, the administrator contacts the administrator and urges the administrator to execute the schedule. It becomes possible.

An electronic secretary system according to a sixth aspect of the present invention is an electronic secretary system equipped with an administrator terminal device used by an administrator who manages an administrator and a schedule book database for registering the schedule of the administrator. An electronic secretary system comprising: a secretary device; wherein the electronic secretary device notifies the manager of the schedule registered in the schedule book database when the scheduled contact time comes. And a response notifying means for notifying the administrator terminal device of a result of the administrator's response to the communication made by the scheduled communication means.

According to this configuration, the manager is notified of the schedule, the response result is automatically notified to the administrator mobile terminal used by the manager, and the manager responds to the schedule notification of the manager. For example, if the administrator does not respond to the schedule notification, the administrator can contact the administrator and urge the administrator to execute the schedule.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in any one of the fifth and sixth aspects, the schedule communication means of the electronic secretary apparatus deducts the travel time of the manager from the current location to the destination at the scheduled time. Scheduled contact time determining means for automatically determining the time as the scheduled contact time.

Thus, based on the scheduled destination and the scheduled time, the travel time from the current location to the destination time is subtracted from the scheduled disclosure time to automatically determine the scheduled contact time,
Since the scheduled contact is made at this scheduled contact time, the convenience of the manager is further enhanced.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an electronic secretary system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the electronic secretary system 1 shown in FIG. 1, an electronic secretary device 3 installed in the home 2 manages the schedule of a family including a manager (parent) 4 and a managed person (child) 5. I have.

The electronic secretary device 3 has a dial-up function, and as a telephone network, for example, an analog public telephone network (PST)
N) Access to an Internet service provider (ISP) 7 via 6 to connect to the Internet 8. Further, the electronic secretary device 3 is connected to the home network 9. A home management device 10 is connected to the home network 9. Outing management device 10,
It manages whether the family is currently out or at home. More specifically, the outing management device 10 is installed at an entrance or the like. For example, a button is prepared for each family member, and when the family member presses this button, going out and returning home are recorded and managed. be able to. Also, the outing management device 1
0 recognizes and identifies the voice of each member of the family, for example, if it recognizes the greeting "I'm going", then determines that the person has gone out, and if it recognizes the greeting "Now," When it is determined that the user has returned home, the user can record and manage going out and returning home. Further, in this example, the out-of-home management device 10 is connected to the electronic secretary device 3 via the home network 9 separately from the electronic secretary device 3. It may be connected directly to the device 3.

The home network 9 may be connected to the Internet 8 via a router 13. For connection between the router 13 and the backbone network of the Internet 8, a so-called broadband constant connection such as FTTH, ADSL, CATV, or the like can be used. In this case, since the electronic secretary device 3 can be connected to the Internet 8 via the home network 9, the electronic secretary device 3 does not need to have the dial-up function.

Various local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) are connected to the Internet 8 and constitute a part thereof. The information includes, for example, the in-house LAN 12 of the office 11 of the manager 4. This in-house LAN 12 is connected to the Internet 8 via a router 13. A personal computer (PC) 14 used by the administrator 4 is connected to the in-house LAN 12.

A mobile network 15 such as a mobile phone (PDC) network or a PHS network is connected to the Internet 8 via a gateway (GW) 16. The mobile network 15 performs communication and data communication with mobile terminal devices 17 and 18 such as mobile phones carried by the manager 4 and the manager 5. The gateway 16 performs protocol conversion between a data packet transfer protocol on the Internet 8 and a data packet transfer protocol on the mobile network 15, and realizes data transfer between the Internet 8 and the mobile network 15.

Further, a transmission mail server 19 is provided on the Internet 8 for transferring electronic mail. The outgoing mail server 19 executes a mail transfer protocol such as SMTP, for example. The above-described gateway 16 receives the e-mail transferred from the transmission mail server 19 to the mobile terminal devices 17 and 18, converts the protocol, and transmits the electronic mail to the mobile terminal devices 17 and 18. The gateway 16 converts the electronic mail created and transmitted by the mobile terminal devices 17 and 18 into a protocol and transmits the electronic mail to a reception mail server 20 provided on the Internet 8. The receiving mail server 20 executes a mail distribution protocol such as POP3, accumulates e-mail received for each account, and transmits e-mail in response to a transmission request from the account.

In the electronic secretary system 1 having such a configuration, the electronic secretary device 3 manages the schedule of each family member and, when the scheduled contact time comes, notifies the schedule contents to the person (administrator) 5. I do. At this time, the contact address is determined based on the management content of the outing management device 10. For example, if the administrator 5 is out of the office, the administrator 5 sends an e-mail (hereinafter, referred to as a schedule notification mail) including the scheduled contents and the scheduled time to the mobile terminal device 18 carried / used by the manager 5. Send. The administrator 5 uses the mobile terminal device 18 to create and send an e-mail (hereinafter, referred to as a response mail) in response to the scheduled notification mail. When receiving the response mail, the electronic secretary device 3 notifies the administrator of the content. This notification destination is also determined based on the content of management by the outing management device 10. If the administrator 4 is out of the office, the electronic secretary device 3 creates an e-mail notifying the contents of the response mail, and the mobile terminal device 17 of the administrator 4 and the administrator 4 use the e-mail at the office 11. To the PC 14 to be transmitted. Thereby, the administrator 4 can easily know whether or not the administrator 5 has responded to the scheduled notification.

Next, the electronic secretary device according to the present embodiment will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. FIG.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment.

In the electronic secretary 3, a system control section 21 controls each section of the electronic secretary 3. The hard disk drive (HDD) 22 stores a program executed by the system control unit 21 and the like. The RAM 23 is used as a working memory of the system control unit 21 and the like.

The modem unit 24 accesses the ISP 7 via the analog public telephone network 6 in a dial-up format, connects to the Internet 8, and modulates the digital data signal of the electronic secretary device 3 in the analog public telephone network. And demodulates an analog modulated signal received from the analog public telephone network 6 into a digital data signal. When a digital public telephone network such as ISDN is used as the telephone network, a terminal adapter and a digital termination unit (DSU) are prepared instead of the modem unit 24.

The network control unit 25 is connected to the home network 9 and controls data input / output with the home network 9.

The audio input / output interface 26 has a microphone 27 connected to its input side and a speaker 28 connected to its output side. The voice recognition unit 29 includes the microphone 2
7 is recognized. On the other hand, the voice synthesizer 3
0 synthesizes the voice and outputs it from the speaker 28.

The keyboard 31 is used, for example, to input characters and numbers when registering the schedule of each family member. The display 32 displays the contents of the schedule, the contents of input from the keyboard 31 and the like. In addition, the input of characters and the like is performed by inputting the voice input from the microphone 27 to the voice recognition unit 2.
The recognition may be performed at step 9. Electronic secretary device 3
The manager 4 or the manager 5 can register the schedule, communicate the schedule, and notify a response from the manager in an interactive manner.

Each section of the electronic secretary device 3 as described above is connected to the system control section 21 by a system bus 33 so as to be controllable.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing functions of the electronic secretary device according to the above embodiment. Various functions described below are performed by the system control unit 21 of the electronic secretary 3
2 is realized by a program read out from the memory 2 and executed.

The schedule management unit 41 stores schedule data including schedule contents, schedule times, and the like of each family member (user) into R.
It is registered in the schedule book database 42 on the AM 23. In addition, the schedule management unit 41 automatically calculates a scheduled contact time obtained by subtracting the travel time from the input scheduled time to the destination, and adds the calculated scheduled contact time to the scheduled data. It should be noted that the schedule contact time may be set by the schedule input user, or may be calculated by subtracting a predetermined time (for example, 5, 10, or 15 minutes) from the schedule time. Further, the scheduled contact time may be the same as the scheduled time.

It is preferable that the scheduled contact time is determined automatically by subtracting the travel time from the current location of the manager to the destination from the scheduled time. For example, a previous scheduled destination is predicted as a predicted current position, and a travel time from the predicted current position to the destination is calculated. It is preferable that the travel time is determined in consideration of transportation means, congestion from the current location to the destination, and the like.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a schedule book database in the electronic secretary device according to the above embodiment. In the schedule book database 42, one schedule data 100 is registered for one schedule. The schedule data 100 includes a user name (family name) 10
1, a scheduled content 102, a scheduled time 103, and a scheduled contact time 104. The schedule data 10
To 0, the item of the response notification 105 is added, and the presence or absence of execution of the response notification and the user name (administrator) of the notification destination are set.

In the schedule book database 42, as described above, when the destination is predicted as the predicted current location from the immediately preceding schedule, it is necessary that there is a schedule immediately before the schedule notification is made.

In this embodiment, all the schedules are notified. However, in a schedule book database in which schedules to be communicated and schedules not to be executed are mixed, schedules to be communicated are set. The schedule data may be extracted and another management table may be created. Similarly, when a schedule book database is provided for each user, the schedule data to be contacted may be extracted from all the schedule book databases, and another management table may be created and centrally managed.

The schedule management section 41 refers to the schedule data in the schedule book database 42 and the clock 43, and transfers the schedule data to the schedule contact processing section 44 when the scheduled contact time comes.

The outing management section 45 registers and manages outgoing and incoming information of each family member from the outing management apparatus 10 in an outing management table 46 stored in the RAM 23. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an outing management table in the electronic secretary device according to the above embodiment. In the outing management table 46, entry information 200 including a user name (family name) 201, a flag indicating whether the user is out of the office (hereinafter, outing flag) 202, and a registration time 203 is registered. In the out-of-office flag 202, ２０２ indicates that the user is out and X indicates that the user is at home. Further, in the outing management table 46, the outing destination may be input and registered as the ingress and egress information 200.

In this embodiment, the outing management table 4
The user's going-out record is recorded in 6; however, this is not always necessary, and it is sufficient to know the current going-out / at-home status at any time and time. Therefore, the going-out management table corresponds to the going-out flag for each user. It may be made to have been made.

The schedule communication processing section 44 creates a communication message based on the schedule data passed from the schedule management section 41, passes the communication message to the speech synthesis section 30, creates a speech synthesis message, and creates the speech synthesis message. The message is reproduced, or the contact message is passed to an e-mail creating unit 50 described later, and is transmitted as text data to the person by e-mail.

The communication method can be switched between when the person is out and at home while referring to the outing management table 46. In other words, the e-mail is used for the communication message (text data) while going out. While at home, the electronic secretary device 3 reproduces the voice synthesis message itself. The display 32 may display the contents of the schedule.

The schedule communication processing section 44 refers to the out-of-home destination management table 47 stored in the RAM 23 to obtain a destination (mail address). FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an out-of-home destination management table in the electronic secretary device according to the above embodiment. In the destination address management table 47,
A user name (family name) 301, a destination type 302, and a destination mail address 303 are registered.

The response identification section 48 identifies the response of the person to the scheduled message. For example, if the user is out of the office, the response identification unit 48 analyzes the response mail to the contact and identifies the response result of the person. If the person is at home,
7 is recognized by the voice recognition unit 29 (for example, "I understand"), the recognition result is analyzed, and the response result of the person is identified. The response result of the user may be identified based on the input from the keyboard 31 or the like.

The response notifying unit 49 notifies the administrator 4 of the response result identified by the response identifying unit 48. Response notification unit 49
Creates a message notifying that there is a response (hereinafter, a response confirmation message) or a message notifying that there is no response (hereinafter, a non-response message). If the manager is at home, this is converted into a voice synthesis message by the voice synthesis unit 30 and reproduced on the spot. If the administrator is out of the office, a response confirmation message or a non-response message is sent as text data to the administrator by e-mail.

The notification method can be switched between going out and staying at home by referring to the outing management table 46. That is, e-mail is used while going out. While at home, the electronic secretary device 3 reproduces the voice synthesis message itself. Further, the message content may be displayed on the display 32. The response notifying unit 49 acquires the destination (mail address) with reference to the destination address management table 47 stored in the RAM 23 when going out.

In this example, the response notification unit 49 refers to the item of the response notification 105 included in the schedule data 100, and only when the response notification has been executed, the user of the notification destination set there, that is, the administrator is notified. Notify the response result.

The e-mail creating unit 50 creates an e-mail including a message (text data) such as a contact message or a response confirmation message in response to instructions from the schedule contact processing unit 44 and the response notifying unit 49. Email transmitting / receiving unit 51
Sends the e-mail created by the e-mail creation unit 50 to the transmission mail server 19. Also, the mail transmitting / receiving unit 5
1 accesses the receiving mail server 20 and receives the response mail.

The electronic secretary device 3 having the above configuration
Will be described. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the scheduled communication operation of the electronic secretary device according to the above embodiment.

The schedule management section 41 extracts, from the schedule book database 42, schedule data in which the scheduled contact time exists in the target time zone (for example, within 5 minutes from the current time) (step (hereinafter referred to as ST) 701).
Next, it is determined whether or not the corresponding scheduled data exists as a result of the extraction (ST702). If No, the process ends. If Yes, the schedule management unit 41 passes the schedule data to the schedule communication processing unit 44. Scheduled contact processing unit 4
No. 4 creates a contact message including the schedule contents and the schedule time (for example, “There is a study private supplementary school from XX hours XX minutes”) (ST703). Voice synthesis section 30 voice-synthesizes the contact message to create a voice synthesis message (ST70).
4). Next, the scheduled communication processing unit 44 refers to the out-of-home management table 46 to determine whether or not the person (administrator 5) is out of the office (ST705). If No, the voice synthesis message is reproduced from the speaker 28 (ST706). Yes
If so, the destination mail address of the person is acquired by referring to the destination address management table 47 (ST707). Next, the e-mail creating unit 50 sends an e-mail including a contact message to the obtained destination e-mail address (hereinafter, referred to as an e-mail).
Message (e-mail with message) (ST708),
Mail transmitting / receiving section 51 transmits the created electronic mail (ST709).

In this embodiment, when the scheduled contact time comes, all scheduled data will be notified. However, when the person (administrator 5) has already started the scheduled execution or arrives at the destination and is waiting, the person notifies the electronic secretary device 3 that the scheduled waiting is in progress and the notification is made. If there is, it is preferable not to contact.

Next, the notification operation of the response result of the electronic secretary device according to the above embodiment will be described. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a response notification operation of the electronic secretary device according to the above embodiment.

If the schedule notification shown in FIG. 7 has been made (ST801), the response notifying section 49 determines whether or not the response notification 105 in the schedule data 100 shown in FIG. A determination is made (ST802). If No, the process ends. If Yes, it is determined whether or not there is a response from the person (administrator 5) to the scheduled message. That is, response identification section 48 determines whether or not there has been a voice response (ST803). Specifically, a response (response) input by the user to the microphone 27 is recognized by the voice recognition unit 29, and the recognition result is passed to the response identification unit 48.
The response identification unit 48 identifies that the individual has responded from the recognition result.

The response identification unit 48 is provided with the keyboard 31
It is determined whether or not there is a response from the input from (ST8)
04).

Further, response identification section 48 determines whether or not there has been a response by e-mail (ST805). The response identifying unit 48 analyzes the electronic mail received by the mail transmitting / receiving unit 51, and if the electronic mail is a response mail from the person, identifies that there is a response from the person.

If it is determined in any of ST803 to ST805 that there is a response, response notifying section 49 creates a response confirmation message (ST806). on the other hand,
If it is determined that there is no response in any of ST803 to ST805, response notifying section 49 determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the contact (ST807). If not, the process returns to ST803. If the time has elapsed, response notifying section 49 creates a non-response message (ST80).
8).

Next, the response notification unit 49 refers to the outing management table 46 to determine whether or not the administrator is out (ST).
809). If No, the voice synthesis message is reproduced from the speaker 28 (ST810). If yes,
The destination mail address of the manager 4 is acquired with reference to the destination address management table 47 (ST811). Next, e-mail creating section 50 creates an e-mail with a message addressed to the acquired destination e-mail address (ST812), and mail transmitting / receiving section 51 transmits the created e-mail (ST813).

The scheduled communication and the response notification in the electronic secretary system 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with specific examples.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a scheduled communication and a response notification in the electronic secretary system according to the above embodiment.

In this example, the child 901 as the person (administrator 5) is out and the parent 902 as the administrator
Is at home.

When the scheduled contact time comes, the electronic secretary device 3 installed at home sends a mail with a message including a contact message to the portable telephone 90 carried by the child 901.
Send to 3. The mobile phone 903 includes a display for displaying an e-mail. So, mobile phone 9
03 displays a mail with a message on the display. The child 901 looks at the communication message. Thereafter, the child 901 operates the mobile phone 903 as appropriate to create a response mail, and transmits the response mail to the electronic secretary device 3.

Electronic secretary device 3 receives the response mail,
When this is analyzed and it is identified that there is a response from the child 901, a response confirmation mail is created, and this is output as a voice, so that the child 901 responds to the schedule notification to the parent 902 and performs the schedule. You can know what you are doing.
When there is no response, the electronic secretary device 3 creates and reproduces a non-response message. This allows parent 902 to
Knowing that the child 901 does not respond to the schedule notification and is not performing the schedule, the child 901 can be directly contacted and encouraged to perform the schedule and can be supported.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing another example of the scheduled communication and the response notification in the electronic secretary system according to the above embodiment.

In this example, a case will be described in which a child 1001 is at home and a parent 1002 is out.

When the scheduled contact time comes, the electronic secretary device 3 installed at home informs the user of the schedule by playing back a speech synthesis message containing the schedule contents and the like. The child 1001 listens to the message and replies to the microphone 27 of the electronic secretary device 3. The electronic secretary device 3 is a child 1001
When it is determined that a response has been received from, a response notification is sent to the parent 1002. Since the parent 1002 is out of the office, a mail with a message including a response confirmation message is created. This e-mail is transmitted to mobile phone 1003 carried by parent 1002 and PC 1004 of the company. This allows the parent 1002 to know that the child 1001 who is at home responds to the schedule notification and is performing the schedule even when going out. When there is no response, the electronic secretary device 3 creates a non-response message and creates a message-attached mail including the message. This e-mail is transmitted to mobile phone 1003 carried by parent 1002 and PC 1004 of the company. This allows the parent 10
02 knows that the child 1001 has not responded to the schedule notification and is not performing the schedule, and can promptly contact the child 1001 to perform the schedule and provide support.

According to the present embodiment as described above, in the electronic secretary device 3, the schedule management section 41 registers and manages the schedule of the person (administrator) in the schedule book database 42, and the schedule communication processing section Reference numeral 44 informs the person of the schedule when the scheduled contact time comes. Next, the response identification unit 4
Reference numeral 8 identifies whether or not there is a response (reply) to the scheduled message from the person, and the response notification unit 49 notifies the administrator of the response result. Thereby, the administrator can easily grasp whether the person responds to the schedule notification and is performing the schedule. If the administrator receives a non-notification message notifying that there is no response from the person, he or she instructs the person to directly contact the person and carry out the schedule. Thus, according to the present invention, the administrator can support the non-administrator's scheduled execution.

In the electronic secretary device 3, the outing management section 45 determines whether or not each family member (administrator 4, managed person 5) is out in the outing management table 46 based on the input from the outing management device 10. The schedule contact processing unit 44 refers to the out-of-home management table 46 at the time of the schedule notification and makes a voice output when the person (administrator 5) is at home. On the other hand, if the person (administrator 5) is out of the office, the reservation notification is sent by e-mail to the mobile terminal device 18 of the person (administrator 5) via a communication medium such as the Internet 8 or the mobile network 15.

Similarly, the response notifying section 49 also refers to the outing management table 46, and when the manager 4 is at home, directly notifies the response result by voice output. When the administrator 4 is out of the office, the response result is notified by e-mail to the mobile terminal device 17 or the PC 14 of the office 11 used by the administrator via a communication medium. Thus, even if the person (administrator 5) and the manager 4 are at home or out of the office, scheduled contact and response notification can be reliably performed.

In the present embodiment, the case where the parent manages the schedule of the child has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, teachers and students, bosses and subordinates of a company, etc. The present invention can be applied when the manager manages the schedule of the manager and supports the manager.

In this embodiment, the electronic secretary device 3
When a message is transmitted to a mobile phone 903 or the like by e-mail, the message is included in the e-mail as text data. However, the message is not
It is also possible to convert the message into a speech synthesis message with 0 and send it to a mobile phone 903 or the like by a mail with a speech synthesis message attached to the speech synthesis message. In this case, it is necessary to provide the mobile phone 903 or the like with a function of reproducing a voice synthesis message.

Similarly, a function of converting the input from the microphone into voice data and attaching it to an e-mail and transmitting it is provided on the cellular phone 903 or the like, whereby the voice synthesis with the voice data of the reply of the child 901 is attached. It is also possible to create a response mail as a mail with a message and send it to the electronic secretary device 3. In this case, the electronic secretary device 3 analyzes the received speech synthesis message and requires fairness to determine whether or not it is a response mail.

[0079]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It manages the schedule of the manager, notifies the manager when the scheduled contact time comes, and automatically notifies the manager of the response result to this notification. The administrator can easily know the response result. For example, if the administrator does not respond to the scheduled communication, the administrator can contact the administrator and prompt the user to execute the schedule. Play.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an electronic secretary system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing functions of the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a schedule book database in the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an outing management table in the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an out-of-home destination management table in the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a scheduled communication operation of the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a response notification operation of the electronic secretary device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a scheduled contact and a response notification in the electronic secretary system according to the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view showing another example of the scheduled communication and the response notification in the electronic secretary system according to the embodiment.

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 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 electronic secretary system 3 electronic secretary device 4 administrator 5 managed person 6 analog public telephone network 8 internet 9 home network 10 outbound management device 13 router 15 mobile network 16 gateway 17, 18 mobile terminal device 19 transmission mail server 20 reception Mail server 21 System control unit 24 Modem unit 25 Network control unit 26 Voice input / output interface 27 Microphone 28 Speaker 29 Voice recognition unit 30 Voice synthesis unit 31 Keyboard 32 Display 33 System bus 41 Schedule management unit 42 Schedule book database 43 Clock 44 Schedule notification Processing unit 45 Outing management unit 46 Outing management table 47 Outing address management table 48 Response identification unit 49 Response notifying unit 50 E-mail creation unit 51 E-mail transmission / reception unit 100 Schedule data Ta

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor: Masashi Kobayashi 1006 Kazuma Kadoma, Osaka Pref.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Dr. Takase 1006 Kazuma Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Inside Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

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[Claims] 1. A schedule book database for registering a schedule of a manager, and when the scheduled contact time comes, the schedule registered in the schedule book database is notified to the manager directly or via a communication medium. And a response notifying unit that notifies a manager managing the managed person directly or via a communication medium of a result of the managed person's response to the contact made by the scheduled communicating means. An electronic secretary device, characterized in that: 2. An out-of-manager outgoing management means for managing whether or not the out-of-administrator is out of the office, and the schedule communication means indicates that the out-of-administrator out-of-administration means is out of the out-of-administrator. In case you go out, inform your schedule via communication media,
2. The electronic secretary device according to claim 1, wherein when the manager indicates that the manager is out of the office, the schedule communication means directly notifies the manager of the schedule. 3. An out-of-administrator management means for managing whether or not the administrator is out of the office, wherein the response notifying means includes an out-of-home operation when the out-of-administration management means indicates that the administrator is out of the office. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a response result is first notified via a communication medium, and when the manager indicates that the user is out of the office, the response notifying unit directly notifies the manager of the response result. Item 3. The electronic secretary device according to Item 2. 4. The scheduled contact time determining means further includes a scheduled contact time determining means for automatically determining, as the scheduled contact time, a time obtained by subtracting a traveling time from the current location of the managed person to the destination to the scheduled time. The electronic secretary device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic secretary device is an electronic secretary device. 5. An electronic secretary system comprising: an administrator terminal device used by an administrator; and an electronic secretary device equipped with a schedule book database for registering the schedule of the administrator. An electronic secretary device, when the scheduled contact time comes, the schedule contacting means for communicating the schedule registered in the schedule book database to the managed terminal device, and the managed contact for the contact made by the schedule contacting means; Response notifying means for notifying a manager who manages the managed person of a response result from the client terminal device. 6. An electronic secretary system comprising an administrator terminal device used by an administrator managing an administrator and an electronic secretary device equipped with a schedule book database for registering the schedule of the administrator. The electronic secretary device, schedule contact means for contacting the manager with the schedule registered in the schedule book database when the scheduled contact time has come, and the schedule contact means for the communication performed by the schedule contact means Response notifying means for notifying the administrator terminal device of the response result of the administrator, the electronic secretary system comprising: 7. The scheduled contact time determining means further includes a scheduled contact time determining means for automatically determining, as the scheduled contact time, a time obtained by subtracting a travel time from the current location of the managed person to the destination from the scheduled time. The electronic secretary system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein