Appointment booking and scheduling system
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    发明授权
    Appointment booking and scheduling system 失效
    预约预约和调度系统

    公开(公告)号:US5848395A

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-08

    申请号:US673728

    申请日:1996-06-26

    IPC分类号: G06F19/00 G06Q10/00 G06F17/60

    摘要: An appointment booking and scheduling system is described, for booking appointments with operatives (e.g. service engineers) visiting customer sites within a defined geographic area. The system includes a table for storing a number of routes, each of which specifies a sequence of regions to be visited by a particular operative, and jobs to be performed by the operative in each of the regions. An appointment server is provided for offering appointments at specified times, using the table to check for availability of operatives in specified regions at specified times, and for inserting new jobs in the routes to reflect booked appointments. A scheduler periodically updates the routes e.g by means of a simulated annealing process, to generate a new set of routes.

    摘要翻译: 描述一个约会预约和调度系统,用于预定在定义的地理区域内访问客户站点的操作员(例如服务工程师)的预约。 该系统包括用于存储多个路由的表,每个路由指定特定操作者要访问的区域的序列,以及由每个区域中的操作者执行的作业。 提供预约服务器,用于在指定时间提供约会,使用表格在指定时间检查指定地区的操作人员的可用性,以及在路线中插入新工作以反映预定的约会。 调度器通过模拟退火处理器周期性地更新路由,以生成一组新的路由。