Schedule Management System for Overlap-Free Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current schedule management systems fail to efficiently coordinate meeting schedules across multiple devices without overlapping dates and times, and do not provide optimal location and route information for event participants.
Innovation Solution
A schedule management system that includes a client device and server apparatus, which receives and processes meeting information to identify non-overlapping events, calculates travel times, and sets meeting details by integrating with property, address, and station-to-station search servers to determine the best meeting locations and routes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If schedule information is manually managed across multiple devices, then users can maintain their own schedules, but coordination between devices fails to prevent date/time overlaps and does not provide optimal location and route information
Solution Approach 1:
A server apparatus acts as an intermediary between multiple client devices to receive schedule information, detect date/time overlaps, and provide coordination recommendations. This mediator approach resolves the contradiction by centralizing the complex coordination logic while keeping individual client devices simple, thereby improving schedule coordination accuracy without significantly increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges schedule management functionality across multiple client devices through a centralized server that aggregates schedule information from various sources. This combining approach enables reliable coordination and overlap detection by consolidating data from multiple devices, improving reliability while distributing complexity across the system rather than individual devices.
2Ease of operation
If the system provides detailed location and route information for events, then user experience is enhanced, but information processing and transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential location and route information needed for schedule coordination from comprehensive data sources, rather than transmitting all available information. This extraction approach enhances user experience by providing relevant location and route details while minimizing data transmission load by excluding redundant information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides location and route information with appropriate detail levels tailored to specific events and user needs, rather than uniformly detailed information for all events. This local quality approach improves ease of operation by delivering customized information quality while reducing overall data transmission requirements by providing only necessary details for each specific context.
Data Source
AI summary
A schedule management apparatus includes a schedule information receiving unit that receives schedule information generated by one or more client devices from each of the client devices, the schedule information including a description of an event, a location of the event, and a date/time of the event. On the basis of the schedule information received by the schedule information receiving unit, information is displayed on each of the client devices about an event to be newly added that matches the schedule information without overlapping with a date/time of each of events scheduled before and after the event, the information representing at least one of a duration of the event, a location of the event, and a route to the event.