Time Date Adjustment Apparatus Priority Scheduling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems face difficulties in adjusting meeting times without causing double bookings, especially when non-members' schedules need to be integrated, and prioritizing high-priority plans over low-priority ones.

Innovation Solution

A time/date adjustment apparatus and method that sets adjustment conditions including exclusion keywords or plans, allowing participants to select available times based on these conditions, ensuring that high-priority plans are not double-booked while permitting low-priority plans to be scheduled accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If schedule information sharing system is used to adjust assembly time/date, then schedule coordination is improved, but double booking occurs when non-members are included and high-priority plans cannot be guaranteed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveschedule coordinationVSAvoiddouble booking prevention

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments existing plans into different priority levels (high-priority and low-priority plans) based on predetermined criteria. This segmentation allows the system to treat different plans differently during time adjustment, ensuring high-priority plans are protected from double booking while low-priority plans can be flexibly adjusted to accommodate new assemblies.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary classification of plans into high-priority and low-priority categories before the time adjustment process. By预先 identifying which plans require protection and which can be adjusted, the system prevents double booking issues before they occur, rather than detecting and resolving conflicts after they happen.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If all existing plans are treated equally during time adjustment, then scheduling flexibility is improved, but high-priority plans may be double-booked

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescheduling flexibilityVSAvoidhigh-priority plan protection

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different quality levels (priority classifications) to different existing plans based on their importance. High-priority plans receive protective treatment where their time slots cannot be overridden, while low-priority plans allow flexible adjustment. This local differentiation of plan treatment resolves the contradiction between flexibility and protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If manual schedule checking is performed for each participant, then double booking prevention is improved, but time and effort required for adjustment increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedouble booking preventionVSAvoidadjustment time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic detection of available time slots by comparing new assembly requests against existing high-priority plans. Instead of requiring manual checking by the adjustment initiator, the system autonomously identifies time conflicts and presents only conflict-free options, significantly reducing adjustment time while maintaining reliable double booking prevention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Measurement precision

If exclusion keywords are used to filter existing plans, then plan classification accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplan classification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces exclusion keywords as an intermediary mechanism between the plan information and the priority classification logic. These keywords serve as simple, text-based markers that automatically trigger high-priority classification without requiring complex analysis of plan content, thus achieving accurate classification with minimal system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250013952A1Time/date adjustment apparatus, time/date adjustment method, and storage medium storing program

Publication Date: 2025.01.09 E4 INC

AI summary

A time/date adjustment apparatus excludes an existing plan includes an exclusion keyword out of existing plans of a participant from plans that require participation, considers the rest of the existing plans as the plans that require participation, and determines time/dates on which the plans that require participation are not present as available time/dates of the participant. When an adjustment partner performs access, the time/date adjustment apparatus refers to schedule information of the participant managed by an external system to extract the available time/dates of the participant satisfying an adjustment condition as candidate time/dates, displays a time/date adjustment screen presenting the extracted candidate time/dates on a second terminal apparatus used by the adjustment partner, determines an assembly time/date out of the candidate time/dates in response to a selection operation of the adjustment partner, and registers the assembly time/date in the schedule information of the participant managed by the external system.