Controlling system and method for appointment
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsHOU-HSIEN LEE, CHANG-JUNG LEE, CHIH-PING LO
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Abstract
A controlling method for making and keeping appointments includes: inputting information concerning an appointment; finding out urban lines according to the starting point and the destination of the appointment, and obtaining detailed information of each urban line found, wherein the detailed information of each urban line is used to create the steps of the total journey whereby the user should arrive at the destination from the starting point at a particular time; selecting an urban line from the urban lines found; calculating when the user should leave according to the selected urban line and the detailed information of the selected urban line; and informing the user accordingly.
Claims9
A controlling system for an appointment, comprising:
- a processing unit;
- and
- a storage unit connected to the processing unit and storing a plurality of programs to be executed by the processing unit, wherein the storage unit comprises:
- an input module to input information of the appointment, wherein the information of appointment comprises a time of the appointment, a starting point for journeying to the appointment, and a destination of the appointment;
- a storing module storing a traffic map and information concerning urban lines, wherein the information of the urban lines comprises bus and train stops and stations along each urban line and the journey times between stops and stations on each type of urban line;
- a calculating module to find out corresponding urban lines from the storing module according to the starting point and the destination of the appointment, and obtain detailed information concerning each type of urban line, wherein the detailed information of each urban line comprises steps of arriving at the destination from the starting point, a period of time for each step, and a period of time before the user arrives at the destination from the starting point in relation to each type of urban line;
- a selecting module to select an urban line from the found urban lines, wherein the calculating module further establishes when the user must leave from the starting point according to the selected urban line and the detailed information of the selected urban line;
- and
- an informing module to inform the user according to the calculation result of the calculating module.
A controlling method for an appointment, comprising:
- inputting information of the appointment, wherein the information of the appointment comprises time of the appointment, a starting point of the appointment, and a destination of the appointment;
- finding out corresponding urban lines according to the starting point and the destination of the appointment, and establishing detailed information of each urban line found, wherein the detailed information of each urban line comprises steps of arriving at the destination from the starting point, a period of time for each step, and a period of time before the user arrives at the destination from the starting point in relation to each type of urban line;
- selecting an urban line from the founded urban lines;
- establishing when the user should leave from the starting point according to the selected urban line and the detailed information of the selected urban line;
- and
- informing the user accordingly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.