System for contracting out part of accepted request
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHidekazu Oba, Yutaka Anahara, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yuji Sano, Kiyoshi Kuramochi, Tetsuro Mishima
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Abstract
An order placement and acceptance system includes a first data processing device for sending a design data for processing and manufacture of a predetermined item, a second data processing device for obtaining the design data sent from the first data processing device and for sending at least a part of the design data, and a third data processing device for obtaining at least the part of the design data sent from the second data processing device.
Claims8
An order placement and acceptance system comprising:
- a first data processing device for sending a design data about processing a predetermined item;
- a second data processing device for obtaining the design data sent from the first data processing device and for sending the design data to process a first step to make a product and for determining a first period needed to process a first step on the basis of a complexity of the design data;
- and
- a third data processing device for processing a second step of the product based on the design data sent from the second data processing device and for determining second period needed to process the second step of making a product on a basis of a complexity of a part of the design data,
- wherein the first, second, and third data processing devices are connected with each other via a network and the second data processing device sends a delivery date which is the first period plus the second period to the first data processing device.
A data processing device comprising:
- design data receiving means for receiving design data about processing steps to make a product from a first data processing device;
- design data sending means for sending a part of the design data to a second data processing device;
- determining means for determining a delivery date which is a first period needed to process the data at the data processing device plus a second period needed to process at the second processing device;
- and
- sending means for sending information on a delivery date to the first data processing device;
- wherein the first period and the second period are determined on a basis of a complexity of the design data.
A computer readable storage medium for storing programs to execute processing of:
- receiving design data about processing steps to make a product from a first data processing device;
- sending a part of the design data to a second data processing device;
- determining delivery date which is the first period needed to process the data at the data processing device plus a second period needed to process at the second processing device;
- and
- sending information on the delivery date on the first data processing device;
- wherein the first period and the second period are determined on a basis of a complexity of the design data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.