Task management system

US8296202B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

• Hideki Matsuda · Fujimi, JP
• Junji Ajioka · Suwa, JP
• Minori Yoshimura · Matsumoto, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 1, 2008
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A task management system includes: an attribute information acquiring unit acquiring attribute information indicating an attribute of a document corresponding to document data; a billing destination information generator extracting attribute information specifying a billing destination of a cost caused as a price of performance of a task using the document data from the attribute information acquired by the attribute information acquiring unit and generating billing destination information indicating the billing destination on the basis of the extracted attribute information; a process content information storage storing process content information indicating a content of a process performed on the document data by a task terminal used by a task performer; a task content specifier specifying the content of the task performed on the document data by the task performer on the basis of the process content information stored in the process content information storage; a cost correlation storage storing a correlation of the content of the task and the cost caused as the price of the performance of the task; a billing amount information generator generating billing amount information ind…