JP4481964B2 - Remote approval system using electronic equipment, electronic bulletin board apparatus, and method thereof - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a remote approval system using an electronic device such as a camera-equipped mobile phone, an electronic bulletin board apparatus, and a method thereof.

  In recent years, with the increase in economic activity, it has been required to check and confirm documents such as checks and bills and various contracts in a safe and reliable manner. Usually, the settlement and confirmation of the document are performed by stamping the settlement mark and the confirmation mark on the document. For this reason, it is inconvenient for an authorizer who performs settlement or confirmation to always have a seal.

Therefore, Patent Document 1 discloses an invention of a remote settlement system that can perform settlement or confirmation from a distance without holding a settlement mark or confirmation mark.
Japanese Patent No. 2923897

  However, the invention of the above-mentioned Patent Document 1 is a system for performing remote settlement using a computer and cannot always have a computer. Even a small device such as a laptop personal computer is difficult to carry at all times.

  On the other hand, mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs are now widespread, and functions that can be performed by mobile devices are also improving. In addition, location control for other devices can be performed by operating a key switch provided in the portable device.

  Accordingly, the present invention provides a remote approval system, an electronic bulletin board apparatus, and a method thereof using a mobile device that stamps approval documents using a camera-equipped mobile phone or PDA.

According to the above object the present invention, by post viewing terminal and the portable device is communicatively connected to the electronic bulletin board system, the settlement request information across electronic bulletin board of the electronic bulletin board system from the mobile device and the post browsing terminal In the electronic bulletin board system for browsing information for posting or viewing related to the approval request information, the electronic bulletin board system further includes an automatic stamping system connected to the electronic bulletin board device and the portable device via a communication network. Upon receiving the automatic request information together with the approval request information from the posting browsing terminal, the automatic seal request information management means for managing the approval request information and the automatic seal request information in association with each other, and the authentication information in the approval request information And an input item of approval information are added and distributed to the mobile device, and the personal authentication information transmitted from the mobile device and The portable device input information management means that holds the approval information in association with the approval request information, the personal authentication means for performing personal authentication based on the personal authentication information transmitted from the mobile device, and the personal authentication is established. In this case, browsing information generating means for generating the browsing information by associating the approval request information and specific approval requester approval information with the approval information corresponding to the approval information, and the automatic authentication request when the personal authentication is established. Automatic stamp notification means for transmitting the automatic stamping request information and the corresponding approval request information to the automatic stamping system when the information is associated with the automatic stamping system, Between the second authentication means for mutually authenticating each other, and the approval document of the approval request case notified of the automatic seal request from the electronic bulletin board apparatus and the seal stamped on the approval document. A mutual arrangement image transmitting means for acquiring an arrangement image and transmitting the image to the portable device; and a stamping means for impressing the seal on the final approval document based on the seal execution instruction information transmitted from the portable device; The portable device displays the approval request information and the input item received from the electronic bulletin board apparatus, and allows the approver to input the personal authentication information and the approval information into the input item, and the settlement request. Input information transmitting means for transmitting the personal authentication information and the approval information input to the information to the electronic bulletin board apparatus; third authenticating means for performing personal authentication between the automatic stamping system; and The mutual arrangement image reproducing means for reproducing the mutual arrangement image transmitted from the automatic stamping system, and waiting for an input of a stamp execution instruction by the authorizer, are received from the authorizer. This can be achieved by providing a remote approval system using a portable device having a stamp execution instruction means for transmitting the stamp execution instruction information to the automatic stamp system when a stamp execution instruction is input.

With this configuration, the authorizer at a remote location can make a decision on approval by accessing the electronic bulletin board from the portable device.
In addition, when the authorizer authentication is established, the approval information entered by the mobile device operator is associated with the approval request information and specific approval information, and the browsing information is created. The viewer of the business information can check whether the approval of the approval is by the approver himself / herself by confirming whether or not the specific approver approval information is added.

  Also, since only the documents that need to be stamped in the approval document are requested to the automatic stamping system as an automatic stamping request, the processing load in the automatic stamping system is reduced, and the burden on the authorizer from a remote location is also reduced. .

In addition , according to the present invention, the posting browsing terminal and the mobile device are connected to the electronic bulletin board device, so that the electronic bulletin board of the electronic bulletin board device is used for the settlement request from the mobile device and the posting browsing terminal. A remote approval method using a portable device, which uses an electronic bulletin board system for posting information or browsing information related to the approval request information, and causes an automatic stamping system to execute automatic stamping via a communication network, wherein the posting browsing is performed The approval request information transmitted from the terminal via the communication network is post-processed by the electronic bulletin board device, and the authentication information and approval information input items are input from the electronic bulletin board device via the communication network together with the approval request information. Distribution processing to the portable device, and input processing of the personal authentication information and the approval information in the portable device. Based on the input information of the personal authentication information transmitted from the portable device via the communication network, the electronic bulletin board apparatus performs personal authentication processing, and the approval request information obtained with the approval when the personal authentication is established. The electronic bulletin board device generates and processes browsing information that associates specific approval information approved by the approver with specific approval information, and automatic stamp request information is added to the approval request information that has obtained the approval. The automatic stamping request information and the approval request information are transmitted from the electronic bulletin board apparatus to the automatic stamping system via a communication network, and the authentication process is performed via communication between the automatic stamping system and the portable device, After the authentication is established, the automatic marking system displays a mutual arrangement image of the final approval document of the final approval request case notified of the automatic sealing request and the seal stamped on the final approval document. By the mobile device that acquires the image and transmits the image to the portable device, and performs a process of executing a seal execution instruction from the portable device to the automatic stamping system based on the mutual arrangement image transmitted from the automatic stamping system to the portable device. This can be achieved by providing a remote approval method.

With this configuration, the authorizer at a remote location can make a decision on approval by accessing the electronic bulletin board from the portable device.
In addition, when the authorizer authentication is established, the approval information entered by the mobile device operator is associated with the approval request information and specific approval information, and the browsing information is created. The viewer of the business information can check whether the approval of the approval is by the approver himself / herself by confirming whether or not the specific approver approval information is added.

  Also, since only the documents that need to be stamped in the approval document are requested to the automatic stamping system as an automatic stamping request, the processing load in the automatic stamping system is reduced, and the burden on the authorizer from a remote location is also reduced. .

  According to the present invention, the approver in the remote place can easily stamp the approval document using the camera-equipped mobile phone or PDA, and further, by using the voice, the approval can be made more reliably. A document can be stamped.

  Further, according to the present invention, by accepting the approval request on the electronic bulletin board, the authorizer at a remote location can access the electronic bulletin board when convenient and can confirm the approval request case. Also, if the electronic bulletin board can be accessed, information on the approval request item can be viewed by anyone other than the parties. In this configuration, specific settlement request approval information is added to the approval request case that has been approved by the approver, so that the approval request case is certainly based on the display of the settlement request approval information. An arbitrary viewer who browses the electronic bulletin board can monitor whether or not the approval is obtained by the authorizer.

  Further, in the present invention, when the approval request is accepted on the electronic bulletin board, all the approval request cases can be handled on the electronic bulletin board regardless of the necessity of stamping the approval documents. Any viewer can monitor the decision of the author.

Thus, the presence of the specific authorizer approval information realizes the marking on the electronic bulletin board from the remote place by the portable device.
Further, an approval request item that needs to be stamped on the approval document is transferred to the automatic stamping system in cooperation with the electronic bulletin board apparatus. The person in charge of the seal contacts the approver's mobile device only when there is an approval request item that requires the approval of the approval document, and prompts the approver to instruct the stamp from a remote location.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to make the decision processing from a remote place by the decision maker smooth and prevent the processing from becoming complicated.
Under the configuration as described above, it is not necessary to refrain from a business trip at the end of the month for the purpose of stamping, or to rush up for that purpose. For example, it is possible to make a seal even from a foreign country or hospital.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating a remote approval system using a camera-equipped mobile phone according to the first embodiment. In the figure, a camera-equipped mobile phone 1 and a remote approval device 2 are connected by a network such as the Internet. A camera-equipped cellular phone (first cellular phone) 1 includes, for example, a CCD camera as an imaging device, and has an antenna 3 for communicating with a remote approval device 2. The camera-equipped mobile phone 1 is a mobile phone owned by the approver 4. For example, the approver 4 is a representative (for example, a president) or an administrator who stamps approval documents.

  The remote approval device 2 includes a camera-equipped mobile phone 5, a remote control unit 6, and an automatic stamping machine 7. A pre-set person 8 such as a person in charge at the head office manages the remote approval device 2.

  The automatic stamping machine 7 is a device that stamps a document under the control of the remote control unit 6, and the remote control unit 6 transmits various control signals to the automatic stamping machine 7. The remote control unit 6 is controlled by a control signal output from the camera-equipped mobile phone 5.

  Also, voice and control signals are supplied from the camera-equipped mobile phone 1 to the remote approval device 2 via the network, and information of voice and camera images is supplied from the remote approval device 2 to the camera-equipped mobile phone 1. .

Next, the processing operation of this example will be described with reference to FIG.
First, the authorizer 4 transmits a password to the remote authorizer 2, and authenticates that he is a true authorizer ("1" shown in FIG. 2). In other words, if the authorizer 4 needs to approve an approval document stored in the head office at a remote location, for example, the authorizer 4 transmits the password of the authorizer to the head office, and is authenticated to be the authorizer 4.

  When the remote approval device 2 receives the password and confirms that it is the true approver 4, the person in charge 8 sets the approval document 10 and transmits a moving image ("2" shown in the figure). . This image is displayed on the display of the camera-equipped mobile phone 1, and the authorizer 4 confirms this image. Next, the person in charge 8 transmits a moving image of the final approval document (“3” shown in FIG. 4). This image is also displayed on the display of the camera-equipped mobile phone 1, and the authorizer 4 confirms this image.

  Next, the approver 4 instructs the person in charge 8 on the stamping position while viewing the approval document displayed on the display ("4" shown in the figure). This instruction information is input as a control signal to the remote approval device (camera-equipped mobile phone 2) to control the remote control unit 6.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the position of the seal 9 on the final approval document 10 is controlled. For example, the seal 9 moves in the position on the XY coordinate according to the instruction of the control signal, and moves to the position designated by the authorizer 4. This operation is performed by the authorizer 4 while looking at the display of the camera-equipped mobile phone 1. Specifically, the stamped part of the document is aligned with the imprinted location projected as light from the automatic stamping machine 7, and it is confirmed that the stamped part of the final approval document 10 has overlapped with the imprinted image. “5” shown in the figure). In this case, the seal 9 may be automatically lowered and stamped on the final approval document 10, or the person in charge 8 may be stamped when the position of the seal 9 is determined.

  By controlling as described above, the final approval document can be stamped even by the final approver 4 at a remote place. In addition, it is possible to easily make a decision from a remote place by using a mobile phone without using an inconvenient device such as a personal computer (PC).

  Therefore, this system eliminates the need to refrain from a month-end business trip for the purpose of stamping or to rush up and round it up for that purpose. For example, it is possible to make a seal even from a foreign country or hospital.

Thus, according to the present invention, the Oriental tradition of seals can be inherited, and the freedom of lifestyle for managers and managers can be increased.
In the above description, the remote approval system using the camera-equipped mobile phone has been described. However, instead of the camera-equipped mobile phone, a PDA with a camera function such as an electronic notebook may be used.
(Second embodiment)
Hereinafter, a second embodiment for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  3 and 4 are overall schematic diagrams of the remote approval system of the second embodiment. 3 is an overall configuration diagram of the remote approval system, and FIG. 4 is a processing flow of remote approval processing performed in the remote approval system.

  The remote approval system 11 includes a mobile device 13 and a viewer 14 that the approver 12 possesses when moving to a remote location, and a posting request for approval (posted approval information) posted on an electronic bulletin board. A post browsing terminal 15 for browsing progress contents and an electronic bulletin board device 16 for managing the electronic bulletin board are connected to a communication network 17. In the management of the electronic bulletin board in the electronic bulletin board device 16, in addition to general processing such as posting / updating / deleting of the electronic bulletin board, personal authentication processing described below and processing for adding authorizer approval information are performed.

Under such a configuration, remote approval processing is executed through the communication network 17 in the following steps.
First, the viewer 14 posts (transmits) information on an approval request item that requires approval by the authorizer 12 from the posting browsing terminal 15 to the electronic bulletin board device 16 (step S1). The electronic bulletin board apparatus 16 posts the approval request information, and transmits the posting notice to the portable device 13 (step S2). After receiving the notice of posting, the approver 12 accesses the electronic bulletin board device 16 with the portable device 13 and browses the content of the posted article (the above approval request information) (step S3). At this time, the electronic bulletin board device 16 Information (for example, information indicating approval) delivered to the mobile device 13 from the user and personal authentication information (ID, password, etc.) necessary to make the decision that the decision is made by the person who made the decision. ), The authorizer 12 inputs corresponding information from the portable device 13 and transmits the information to the electronic bulletin board device 16 (step S4). The electronic bulletin board device 16 determines whether or not the person is the authorizer based on the person authentication information transmitted from the portable device 13, and when it is confirmed that the person is the authorizer, the approval request information and the approval request information are included in the corresponding approval information. A browsing article (browsing information) to which specific authorizer approval information (for example, image data of a final seal) is added is created (step S5). The browsing person 14 accesses the electronic bulletin board device 16 from the posting browsing terminal 15 to receive the browsing article, and confirms whether or not the approval person approval information is added to the above-mentioned approval request information (step S6).

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of each device of the remote approval system.
In the figure, parts corresponding to those shown in FIG. 3 are assigned the same numbers as in FIG.

The electronic bulletin board apparatus 16 shown in FIG. 1 includes an approval request information management means 60, personal authentication data D1, a bulletin board database D2, and an approval seal image file D3.
The personal authentication data D1, the bulletin board database D2, and the final seal image file D3 store the personal authentication data, the bulletin board information, and the final seal image data in this order. The bulletin board information stored in the bulletin board database D2 is finalized. Information is rewritten by the request information management means 60.

  The approval request information management means 60 performs data communication between the electronic bulletin board device 16 and the posting viewing terminal 15 or the portable device 13 and information on the bulletin board database D2 in accordance with requests transmitted from these devices 13 and 15. General processing such as registration / extraction / update / deletion is performed. For example, when posting information (the above-mentioned approval request information) is received from the posting viewing terminal 15, the approval request information is registered in the bulletin board database D2, or a request for viewing the above-mentioned approval request information is sent from the posting viewing terminal 15 or the portable device 13. Upon receipt, the information for browsing created by extracting the approval request information from the bulletin board database D2 is transmitted to the device that has been instructed to browse.

  Further, the approval request information management means 60 includes a portable device input information management means 60-1, a personal authentication means 60-2, a browsing information generation means 60-3, and an approval request notification means 60-4. Yes.

  When the portable device input information management means 60-1 receives a request from the portable device 13 (for example, receives a request for viewing the approval request information, or additionally receives an input item distribution request for determination by the authorizer) And the like, the input items of the personal authentication information and the approver decision information (for example, approval information) are distributed to the mobile device 13 and the personal authentication information based on the input items is later transmitted from the mobile device 13. When D4 and the decision information are received, the input information is held in association with the decision request information.

The personal authentication means 60-2 collates the personal authentication information D4 with the information of the personal authentication data D1.
The browsing information generation means 60-3 generates browsing information from the bulletin board database D2. Further, when the verification in the personal authentication means 60-2 matches, the approval information associated with the personal authentication is associated with the approval request information and the final seal image data of the final seal image file D3, and the bulletin board database D2. And the browsing information is updated to the contents associated with the information.

When receiving the approval request posting information (the approval request information) from the posting viewing terminal 15, the approval request notifying unit 60-4 notifies the mobile device 13 that the approval request has been posted.
The portable device 13 shown in FIG. 1 includes an approval request content display input / input information transmission unit 30 and an approval request reception notification unit 31.

  The approval request content display input / input information transmitting means 30 displays an input screen including the content of the approval request transmitted from the electronic bulletin board apparatus 16 and predetermined input items, and accepts information input by the approver according to the input screen, The input information is transmitted to the electronic bulletin board apparatus 16.

The approval request reception notifying unit 31 receives a notification regarding the approval request from the approval request notifying unit 60-4, and notifies the approver using a notification unit such as music playback or light emission.
An approval request information posting / browsing means 50 is configured in the browsing posting terminal 15.

The approval request information posting / browsing means 50 transmits the approval request posting information to the electronic bulletin board device 16 or the posted approval request information (here, information on the current approval process related to the approval request information is included). Is received from the electronic bulletin board apparatus 16.
(Example)
The remote approval system of this example is configured by an electronic bulletin board apparatus, a mobile phone, and a posting viewing terminal that can perform data communication with each other via a communication network.

  The electronic bulletin board apparatus includes an electronic bulletin board server and an electronic bulletin board database that are provided with Web server software and are configured by one or a plurality of computers that cooperate with a DBMS (software for managing a database described later) via a CGI program. Publish an electronic bulletin board on the Web. In this example, for the sake of convenience, public information is managed separately for the posting browsing terminal and for the mobile phone, and the posting browsing terminal and the mobile phone access the corresponding public information addresses (HTTP link destinations). .

  The mobile phone of this example is a general mobile phone having a browsing function for displaying an electronic bulletin board published on the Web and an input interface for inputting a password or the like. Any other portable device (for example, PDA (Personal Digital Assistance), etc.) can be used as long as it has a function capable of displaying such information and an input interface for inputting a password or the like.

  In this example, it is assumed that a notification of an approval request (to be described later) is sent by e-mail. Therefore, the electronic bulletin board server further includes mail server software, and the mobile phone of this example further includes an electronic mail transmission / reception function. With this configuration, the electronic bulletin board server transmits an e-mail to a mobile phone mail server of a mobile phone company using the SMTP protocol, and the mobile phone notifies the arrival of new e-mail and the text of the e-mail from the mobile phone mail server. Can be obtained.

The posting browsing terminal of this example is a normal personal computer equipped with a Web browser.
Examples of the communication network include the Internet and a LAN (Local Area Network). In this example, the Internet is assumed. Therefore, in this example, the posting browsing terminal is connected to the Internet via a public network such as a telephone network, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) that provides a connection service with the Internet, and the mobile phone. The telephones are connected to the Internet via a mobile telephone network, and perform data communication with the electronic bulletin board device, respectively.

FIG. 6 is a hardware configuration diagram of the electronic bulletin board apparatus.
The electronic bulletin board apparatus of this example includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 400, a memory 401, a hard disk 402, a portable storage unit 403, a data communication unit 404, and an input / output unit 405, which are connected to a data bus 406. ing.

  The CPU 400 executes arithmetic processing based on a program and data loaded from a memory 401 described later. The programs and data include various programs and data necessary for the electronic bulletin board processing flow described later.

  The memory 401 stores various programs and data loaded from a resident or later-described hard disk. Further, it is also used as a work area for temporarily storing calculation results in the CPU 400. In this case, for example, the approval request information and the corresponding authorizer determination information and personal authentication information transmitted from the mobile phone can be temporarily stored in association with each other. The memory 401 can be implemented by a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), or the like.

  The hard disk 402 has a large-capacity storage area and stores various programs and data, in particular, information on an electronic bulletin board database (to be described later), a final approval image file, personal authentication data, and the like.

  The portable storage unit 403 is a portable storage medium such as FD (registered trademark), CD, or DVD, and a driver that reads and writes the information. By connecting a portable storage medium here, for example, programs and data necessary for remote approval processing can be transferred to a hard disk or memory.

The data communication unit 404 transmits and receives data packets to and from the mobile phone and the posting viewing terminal via the communication network.
The input / output unit 405 converts an instruction signal input from, for example, a mouse or a keyboard to the CPU 400 and converts an output signal transmitted from the CPU 400 into a corresponding format, for example, a liquid crystal monitor, a CRT monitor, a printer, or the like. It is comprised by the output part which outputs. The person in charge of the electronic bulletin board apparatus uses the input / output unit 405 to manage the apparatus.

FIG. 7 is a table configuration diagram of the electronic bulletin board stored in the hard disk.
The electronic bulletin board in this example is designed as a thread float type, and a president decision thread is configured as one of a plurality of threads. In this case, as shown in “No1”-“No3” in the figure, three types of table configurations of “staff information”, “thread data”, and “posted article data” are provided ((a) in the figure). ). For example, the “staff information” is a table for managing the detailed information of the company staff who posted the approval request information, and the “thread data” is a table for managing all threads including the thread related to the president approval. "Is a table for managing detailed information on posted articles such as approval request information. In this example, these table names are “staff”, “thread”, and “Bbs_data”, respectively, and “primary keys” and “foreign keys” are assigned as indicated by solid arrows in FIG. The tables are related.

8 to 10 are diagrams showing specific examples of the above-described tables in a table format.
Although not specifically described below, in each table of these figures, items indicating data contents in the horizontal direction of the figure include “field name”, “key”, “content”, “type”, “default value”, “NULL allowed” and “Remarks” are assigned.

FIG. 8 is an example of the “staff information” table.
In the vertical direction of the figure, a column indicating the detailed information of the staff is divided into items.
As corresponding to FIG. 7B, in this example table, “primary key” is assigned to “field name: [uid]” indicating the user ID. The description of each item will be described later as necessary.

FIG. 9 is an example of a “thread data” table.
In the vertical direction of the figure, information necessary for managing each thread in units of threads is divided into items.

  As shown in FIG. 7B, in this example table, “primary key” is assigned to “field name:“ id ”” indicating the thread ID, and “field name:“ stuff_id ”” indicating the staff ID. “Foreign key” is assigned. The description of each item will be described later as necessary.

FIG. 10 is an example of a “posted article data” table.
In the vertical direction of the figure, detailed information of post information (in particular, approval request information in this example) is divided into items.

  When these items are enumerated using “Content” on the horizontal axis, “Registration date”, “Update date”, “Bulletin board deletion date”, “Article ID”, “Article number in thread”, “ "Thread ID", "Contributor Staff ID", "Contributor Staff Name", "Contributor Email Address", "Text", "President Flag", "Important Communication List Add Flag", "Password", "IP Address" And “automatic stamping device use flag”.

  As shown in FIG. 7B, in this table example, “Article ID” that is “Field name:“ id ”” is assigned “Primary key”, and “Field name:“ thread_id ””. An “external key” is assigned to “poster staff ID” that is “thread ID” and “field name:“ stuff_id ”.

  In particular, the meaning of the “President flag” is an item for designating whether to notify the president's mobile phone together with posting of the approval request information (in this example, notification by e-mail). The meaning of “automatic stamping device use flag” is an item for designating whether or not to use an automatic stamping device (not shown) for the decision. In this example, since the configuration in which the automatic stamping apparatus is connected is not taken, this detailed description will be described in detail in Embodiment 3 to be described later with the automatic stamping apparatus connected.

FIG. 11 is a data processing flow in the remote approval system.
The solid line arrow shown in the figure indicates the direction of data.
Hereinafter, the data processing flow will be described by appropriately adding display screen examples so that each process can be easily understood. Although not specifically described, information described in a markup language such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language) or simple HTML or an image specified by this information is not provided between the electronic bulletin board server and the posting viewing terminal or the mobile phone. Sent and received.

This example is a series of processing flows from the approval request by the staff to the completion of the approval by the president.
The staff accesses the electronic bulletin board server from the posting browsing terminal via the communication network. By this access, information on the top screen of the public electronic bulletin board information for the posting browsing terminal on the electronic bulletin board server is acquired, and the information on the top screen is displayed on the terminal screen by the Web browser function. In the posting browsing terminal, the link destination screen information is acquired from the electronic bulletin board server by inputting and specifying the link attached to the top screen, and the screen is updated with the screen information (electronic bulletin board browsing processing: step S100). The screen information on the electronic bulletin board server is composed of a combination of tags and texts formed in a predetermined form, and the text in the display screen requested by the posting viewing terminal is frequently stored in the electronic bulletin board database. It has been updated to the latest information on the corresponding items.

  FIG. 12 is a screen configuration example of the electronic bulletin board head screen displayed on the Web browser. In this example, four frame frames 1002, 1004, 1006, and 1008 are displayed under the title field 1000. The first frame frame 1002 is an area for displaying a list of thread menus, the second frame frame 1004 is an area for displaying the latest access thread menu, and the third frame frame 1006 is currently selected. The fourth frame frame 1008 is an area for displaying the posted contents of the thread previously selected. In the first frame 1002, the corresponding information acquired from [title] of the “thread data” table (FIG. 9) is displayed. The third frame frame 1006 and the fourth frame frame 1008 are displayed with numbers, names, and date / time displayed from the left below the title of the selected thread, and the detailed contents displayed below. I'm taking it. Here, various information of the selected thread acquired from the “posted article data” table (FIG. 10) is displayed. More specifically, the number is obtained by searching for “thread_id” in the “posted article data” table using the selected “id” in the “thread data” table (FIG. 10) as a key, and the corresponding article number. [Bbs_num] is displayed. As the name, the post staff name [name] of the article corresponding to this article number is displayed. At this time, when displaying more detailed information (such as departments) of the poster, the “staff information” table (FIG. 8) is used by using the poster staff ID [stuff_id] corresponding to the poster staff name [name]. ). The date and time [date] or [date] of posting or updating of the article corresponding to this article number is displayed. For the detailed contents, the text [body] of the article corresponding to this article number is displayed.

  The posting browsing terminal posts approval request information to the electronic bulletin board server following the electronic bulletin board browsing process in step S100 (electronic bulletin board posting process: step S102). In this process, first, the president approval thread in the first frame frame 1002 of the screen of FIG. 12 is input and designated, so that the posting information of the president approval thread is acquired from the electronic bulletin board server, and the third frame frame 1006 is displayed. The post information is displayed on the screen. Then, the posting window information for approval request is acquired from the electronic bulletin board server by pressing a posting button (not shown in FIG. 12), and the posting window is displayed, and the approval request information is input from this posting window. This approval request information is transmitted to the electronic bulletin board server, and registration processing described later is performed in the electronic bulletin board server.

  FIG. 13 is a configuration example of posting window screen information for displaying the posting window for the approval request on the posting browsing terminal. The posting window screen information 1100 in FIG. 11 includes “name” 1102, “E-MAIL” 1104, “mobile mail” 1106, “stamp” 1108, and “post text” 1110 as posting items for approval requests. Is provided. The information input here is transmitted to the electronic bulletin board server in a predetermined format by pressing the write button 1112. Then, the configuration of each information is analyzed by this server, and a new article number is assigned to the president decision thread based on the registration process described later in this electronic bulletin board server. The above data is stored in the “staff information” table (FIG. 8). ) “Name”, “mail address”, “posted article data” table (FIG. 10), “president flag”, “automatic stamping device use flag”, and “text”. In particular, since the items of “mobile mail” and “marking” are configured by check boxes in this example, if this item is checked, a flag is set at the corresponding location in the database by the registration process described later. Become.

  In this example, “name” 1102, “E-MAIL” 1104, “mobile mail” 1106, “stamping” 1108, and “post text” 1110 are provided as posting items. In other words, at least information for identifying a contributor and a post text are sufficient. In addition, in this example, since a configuration in which an automatic stamping apparatus is connected is not taken, this detailed description will be referred to Embodiment 3 described later, in which an automatic stamping apparatus is connected.

  The electronic bulletin board server receives the electronic bulletin board posting process in the post browsing terminal in step S102, and registers the approval request information received from the post browsing terminal in the electronic bulletin board database (registration process: step S104). In this process, new approval request information is extracted from the transmission data of the posting browsing terminal, and each table in the electronic bulletin board database is updated based on various information included in the new approval request information. In particular, in the “posted article data” table, the maximum value of the “article ID” of the president approval thread is incremented by 1, and various pieces of information on the new posted article are added to the corresponding items in the table. At this time, if the president flag in the new approval request information is ON, the email address of the president's mobile phone is obtained from the above electronic bulletin board database, notification data is created, and the address is sent to that address. Send notification data in packets. Then, the mobile phone approval screen information (for example, screen information written in simple HTML) including the later-described “judgment request information to the president” in the new approval request information is generated in the mobile phone public folder in the server. To do. In this example, since the notification data described above is an e-mail, the e-mail includes address information (HTTP link information) indicating the location in the server where the mobile phone decision screen information is stored. This makes it possible to obtain mobile phone approval screen information from the mobile phone.

  Thereafter, the electronic bulletin board server acquires update information from the electronic bulletin board database, and updates the public electronic bulletin board information based on the information (electronic bulletin board update processing: step S106).

FIG. 14 is a screen configuration diagram of the electronic bulletin board after the electronic bulletin board update process, which can be browsed by the registration browsing apparatus.
In the configuration example shown in the figure, the posting information of the president approval thread acquired from the electronic bulletin board server when “president approval” in the first frame 1002 is input and designated is posted to the third frame 1006. It is configured to be displayed from the top to the bottom of the figure in order from the oldest day. In this example, the post number, the name of the contributor, and the post date / time are displayed from the left for one post information of the president approval thread, and detailed post content is displayed below the post number. In addition, since the “President flag” is set in the “Posted article data” table (FIG. 10), the posted article that is flagged here (in this example, “Sent to the president ’s mobile mail”). ”1200) is displayed. In addition, in order to make it easy to understand whether or not “seal” is necessary, a character “seal required” is also displayed on the right side of the posting date. In addition, since the “automatic stamping device use flag” is provided in the “posted article data” table (FIG. 10), the posted article that is flagged here (in this example, “remote stamping process is arranged”). 1202 ”is displayed. In this example, since the configuration in which the automatic stamping apparatus is connected is not taken, this detailed description will be described in detail in Embodiment 3 to be described later with the automatic stamping apparatus connected.

  The mobile phone receives notification data based on the notification processing to the mobile phone performed in the registration processing in step S104. This notification data is implemented by a new arrival notification packet that is delivered from the mobile phone mail server to the mobile phone when the notification e-mail transmitted from the electronic bulletin board server arrives at the mobile phone mail server. Then, triggered by the reception of the new arrival notification packet in the mobile phone, the notification means such as preset music is driven, so that the president can confirm that the approval request has been posted on the electronic bulletin board from the staff. know. Thereafter, the president downloads the notification e-mail from the mobile phone mail server to the mobile phone, and executes an approval process (approval process: step S108).

FIG. 15 is a configuration diagram of a screen displayed on the mobile phone.
FIG. 5A shows an example of a screen configuration of a notification email created by the electronic bulletin board server (or a screen configuration of an email received from a mobile phone mail server). As shown in the figure, in the notification email screen 1300 of this example, in addition to the email address [from] 1301 and the sender name [name] 1302 of the email sender, the email subject [sub] 1303 and It includes a decision request information consisting of content [text] 1304, and an HTTP link 1305 to the decision screen information storage destination for the mobile phone in the electronic bulletin board server. In this configuration, the mobile phone can access the save destination of the mobile phone decision screen information in the electronic bulletin board server by simply specifying the link displayed on the mobile screen, and download the web information from the mobile phone. The decision screen can be displayed on the web browser of the mobile phone.

  FIG. 5B is a configuration example of the above decision screen provided to the mobile phone. The decision screen 1310 comprises a decision request section (in this example, selection can be specified by a list box) for determining whether the president approves or rejects the decision case at the top of the screen. An approval request information section such as an article number “2”, a contributor's name “Net Research”, and a posting content “... And in the lower right is a send button. When this screen information is displayed on the mobile phone, the president selects and designates "Approve", "Hold", or "Reject" from the list box at the top of the screen, and when the send button is pressed, Approval confirmation information (approval, hold, or rejection information) for the approval request item is sent back to the electronic bulletin board server, and then the personal authentication screen information is transmitted to the mobile phone.

  FIG. 4C shows an example of the configuration of the personal authentication screen information. In this example, an input field for an account name and a password is configured, and a send button is configured therebelow. The president inputs the account and password (personal authentication information) stored in his / her own into each of the above fields using an input interface such as an input key of a mobile phone, and finally presses the send button. In this operation, the personal authentication information is transmitted to the electronic bulletin board server so that the electronic bulletin board server can be associated with the decision confirmation information transmitted previously. In this example, this personal authentication information is processed after the decision processing by the president. However, if the correspondence between the approval confirmation information by the president of the approval request case and the personal authentication information can be managed by the electronic bulletin board server, it is not necessarily in this order. There is no need to follow.

  Subsequently, the electronic bulletin board server performs president authentication processing based on the personal authentication information (president authentication processing: step S110). In this process, it is checked against the authentication data stored in the electronic bulletin board apparatus or an external authentication system, and it is determined whether or not the approval confirmation information transmitted from the mobile phone is approval by the president himself. If it is determined by this collation that the approval confirmation information is from the president, the subsequent processing is performed on the transmitted approval confirmation information corresponding to “approval”.

  Step S112 is a process for inserting final seal image data. In this process, the anchor tag that links the “in-thread article number” of the post information requested to be approved, and the position where the final seal image data is stored (the final seal image file D3 in the figure). "Text" is created from the image tag describing the address) and the approval confirmation information sent from the president.

  Next, in the above electronic bulletin board server, the “poster staff ID” is set as the president ID, the “thread ID” is set as the president approval ID, and the president's posted article consisting of the above “text” is newly registered in the electronic bulletin board database. (Registration process: Step S114). In this process, the process is performed in the same manner as in step S104. In other words, in this process, each piece of information of the new post information is added to the corresponding item of the table as a post article having a number obtained by incrementing the maximum value of “article ID” in the “post article data” table of the electronic bulletin board database. To do. Then, mobile phone confirmation screen information (for example, screen information described in simple HTML) of the newly posted information is generated, and the mobile phone public folder is updated with the file name of the original mobile phone approval screen.

  Thereafter, the electronic bulletin board server obtains update information from the electronic bulletin board database, and updates the electronic bulletin board information for publication based on the information (electronic bulletin board update processing: step S116).

  Then, when the staff accesses the electronic bulletin board server again via the communication network from the posting viewing terminal (or continues to access), a posting article of the approval request case for which the president's approval has been made is newly added, The article content displays the final seal image data specified by the image tag and the article number of the final approval request specified by the anchor tag in the “Body” of the “Posted article data” table of the electronic bulletin board database. (Browsing electronic bulletin board: Step S117).

On the mobile phone side, a display with approval is added (electronic bulletin board browsing: step S118).
FIG. 16 is a configuration example of the posted article screen of the president displayed on the posted browsing terminal.

  The figure shows a case where the posted article of the president is displayed in the third frame 1006. In this example, “3”, which is the new article number in the thread, is given to the posted article by the president, and a link to the final approval request article in the thread article number “2”, which is the base article that made this posting. (1400 in the figure) is added. In addition, in the posted article by the president, image data of the president's approval seal indicating approval by the president himself is displayed (1402 in the figure). These display positions are examples, and can be arranged at various positions depending on the design.

FIG. 17 is a configuration example of an approval confirmation screen displayed on the mobile phone.
In this example, since the original mobile phone approval screen in the mobile phone public folder has been updated on the approval confirmation screen, the president must specify the link destination for the mobile phone approval screen recorded in the received email of the mobile phone. You can view the confirmation screen.

This screen is configured to display the content of the approval by the president himself. In this example, “approval” which is the content of the approval by the president is displayed below the content of the approval request.
By configuring as described above, the approver at a remote location can easily use the portable device such as a mobile phone or PDA without using an inconvenient device such as a personal computer (PC). Can be stamped, and by using the voice, the decision can be made more reliably.

  In addition, since the approval request is accepted on the electronic bulletin board, the authorizer at a remote location can access the electronic bulletin board at a convenient time and confirm the approval request item. Also, if the electronic bulletin board can be accessed, information on the approval request item can be viewed by anyone other than the parties. In this configuration, the approval request image data of the settlement person is given to the approval request case that has been approved by the approver, so that the approval request case is certainly the approval person based on the display of this approval seal image data. An arbitrary viewer who browses the electronic bulletin board can monitor whether or not the approval has been obtained.

  In addition, since all approval request cases can be handled on the electronic bulletin board regardless of the necessity of stamping approval documents, any viewer can monitor the decision of the approval person in all approval request cases.

Thus, the presence of the specific authorizer approval information realizes the marking on the electronic bulletin board from the remote place by the portable device.
Then, the approval process from a remote place by the approver can be made smooth and the process can be prevented from becoming complicated.

  Therefore, this system eliminates the need to refrain from a month-end business trip for the purpose of stamping or to rush up and round it up for that purpose. For example, it is possible to make a seal even from a foreign country or hospital.

Thus, according to the present invention, the Oriental tradition of seals can be inherited, and the freedom of lifestyle for managers and managers can be increased.
(Third embodiment)
In the third embodiment, a remote approval system for automatically stamping an original approval document through an electronic bulletin board device will be described.

  18 and 19 are overall schematic views of the remote approval system of the third embodiment. FIG. 18 is an overall configuration diagram of the remote approval system, and FIG. 19 is a processing flow of remote approval processing performed by the remote approval system.

  In the remote approval system 380 of FIG. 18, compared with the remote approval system 11 of the second embodiment, the portable device 381 further includes an image (still image or moving image) reproduction function and a seal execution instruction function in addition to the functions of the portable device 13. Is configured in place of the portable device 13, and an automatic marking system 382 is further configured on the communication network 17.

The portable device 381 in the figure can be configured by, for example, a cellular phone or a PDA, but in the following, the cellular phone in this will be taken as an example of the portable device 381 so that the explanation can be easily understood.
This cellular phone 381 can be implemented by storing each function in the built-in memory in the form of a program that can be executed by a CPU, for example. The reproduction function sequentially reproduces the image data transmitted from the automatic seal system received from the antenna and displays it on the display screen. The stamp execution instruction function waits for a predetermined input (input of stamp execution instruction information) from the input key of the cellular phone 381 to be performed by the authorizer 12 during reproduction of the image data, for example. The packet storing the marking execution instruction information is transmitted to the automatic marking system 382.

  The automatic stamping system 382 includes a known automatic stamping machine in which a final document and a predetermined seal are set, and the stamp is mechanically stamped on the final document, and further, a final document set in the automatic stamping machine and Imaging / captured image transmission means is configured to capture the mutual arrangement with the seal and transmit the captured image to the mobile phone 381.

  In the example of the automatic stamping system 382 in the figure, the imaging / captured image transmission means includes an approval server 383 connected to a communication network and a camera-equipped portable device electrically connected to the approval server (hereinafter, for ease of understanding, (This is also a mobile phone with a camera) 384, and a known automatic stamping machine 385 is configured to be able to communicate with them.

  The approval server 383 is composed of one or a plurality of computers, and manages approval request information with an automatic seal request transmitted from the electronic bulletin board device 16 via the communication network 17, for example, in a database. In addition, the camera-connected mobile phone 384 that is electrically connected is driven and controlled, and an image captured by the CCD is received and packet-transmitted to the mobile phone 381 owned by the approver 12, or transmitted from the mobile phone 381. When a packet storing the stamp execution instruction information is received, a stamp execution signal is transmitted to the automatic stamping machine 385.

  The camera-equipped cellular phone 384 configured in the automatic marking system 382 includes an imaging unit such as the CCD that can be driven from the approval server 383, a server communication unit that performs data communication with the approval server 383, and a line for the cellular phone. The mobile phone line 381 of the authorizer and the person in charge of sealing use a mobile phone line communication unit that exchanges voice data and image data, a key input unit, and a display unit.

  The automatic stamping machine 385 includes a mounting table on which the approval document is placed, and a control mechanism that moves the seal stamp on the XY plane and moves up and down the z-axis above the approval document set on the mounting table. In the automatic stamping machine 385, for example, a control signal is transmitted from the approval server 383 by the person in charge of the stamping, and the set seal (approval stamp, etc.) is moved in the XY plane, and the stamp is placed at the stamp position on the final approval document. Is moved.

  Posting browsing terminal 15 and electronic bulletin board device 16 are premised on the configuration shown in the second embodiment, and in particular, electronic bulletin board device 16 among these is that personal authentication is established and automatic stamp request information is included in the approval request information. The apparatus further includes automatic seal notifying means for transmitting the automatic seal request information and the corresponding approval request information to the approval server 383 when registered in association with each other.

  Note that the camera-equipped mobile phones 381 and 384 naturally have an authentication function capable of authenticating each other. This can be done, for example, by performing a voice call from one camera-equipped cellular phone to the other camera-equipped cellular phone, or by capturing each person's face from each imaging unit and using the other camera The authentication can be easily performed by performing identity authentication by transmitting to the attached mobile phone, or performing identity authentication by transmitting the password input information to the other camera-equipped mobile phone.

  In the processing flow shown in FIG. 19, steps S1 to S6 are the same as those described in detail in the second embodiment, and therefore detailed description thereof will be omitted. The other steps in FIG. 19 will be described in detail. .

  In step S7, approval request information for which an automatic sealing request has been made is transmitted from the electronic bulletin board apparatus to the approval server, and registered in the approval server. This is because the automatic stamping device use flag of the “posted article data” table (FIG. 10) described in the second embodiment is ON (in this example, “1” is ON and “0” is OFF). For example, the electronic bulletin board apparatus detects the received information, and, for example, transmits a packet including all or a part of the approval request information corresponding to the item to the approval server. The approval server side can register the transmission information in a correspondence table provided in advance.

  When the registration process is completed in the approval server, a confirmation process for the approval document is subsequently executed (step S8). Here, for example, the person in charge of stamping 386 checks the registration status of the automatic stamping request on the approval server on the screen, and the person in charge of registration sets the registered approval document and the corresponding seal on the automatic stamping machine.

  Subsequently, an approval application is made from the automatic stamping system to the mobile phone 381 of the approver (step S9). In this case, for example, the person in charge of the seal makes a communication connection from the camera-equipped cellular phone 384 of the automatic marking system 382 to the mobile phone 381 of the authorizer via the cellular phone network. Through this communication connection, the person in charge of sealing notifies the approval application to the approval person by voice.

  Here, mutual authentication by voice is performed, or mutual authentication is further performed by transmitting each other's face image and password. When this authentication is established, the authentication server is controlled based on the control of the approval server. The mobile phone 381 and the camera-equipped mobile phone 384 perform data transmission / reception on the communication path (step S10). Here, after the mutual authentication is established, for example, the person in charge of stamping horizontally moves the seal to a predetermined position above the finalized document. Then, the image pickup unit of the camera-equipped mobile phone 384 is driven from the approval server to read images indicating their mutual arrangement at predetermined intervals, and the mutual arrangement images are sequentially transmitted to the mobile phone 381 in packets. In the mobile phone 381 of the approver, the image reproduction program is executed, and the mutual arrangement images transmitted by the packets are sequentially displayed on the screen.

  In the subsequent step, the seal execution instruction information for instructing the lifting / lowering operation of the automatic stamping machine is input from the input unit of the mobile phone 381 while the image is being reproduced by the mobile phone 381 of the authorizer. Is transmitted to the approval server (step S11).

  Upon receiving this stamp execution instruction information, the approval server transmits a control signal for driving the lifting / lowering operation of the automatic stamping machine to the automatic stamping machine, and executes the seal stamp on the final approval document by the automatic stamping machine (step S12). ).

  By configuring as described above, the approver at a remote location can easily approve using a portable device such as a mobile phone or PDA without using an inconvenient device such as a personal computer (PC). Furthermore, the settlement document can be stamped, and by using the voice, the final approval document can be more reliably stamped.

  In addition, since the approval request is accepted on the electronic bulletin board, the authorizer at a remote location can access the electronic bulletin board at a convenient time and confirm the approval request item. Also, if the electronic bulletin board can be accessed, information on the approval request item can be viewed by anyone other than the parties. In this configuration, the approval request image data of the settlement person is given to the approval request case that has been approved by the approver, so that the approval request case is certainly the approval person based on the display of this approval seal image data. An arbitrary viewer who browses the electronic bulletin board can monitor whether or not the approval has been obtained.

  In addition, since all approval request cases can be handled on the electronic bulletin board regardless of the necessity of stamping approval documents, any viewer can monitor the decision of the approval person in all approval request cases.

  In addition, an approval request item that needs to be stamped on the approval document is transferred to the automatic stamping system in cooperation with the electronic bulletin board apparatus. For this reason, the person in charge of the seal contacts the approver's mobile device only when there is an approval request item that requires the approval of the approval document, and prompts the approver to instruct the seal from a remote location.

Thus, the presence of the specific authorizer approval information realizes the marking on the electronic bulletin board from the remote place by the portable device.
Then, the approval process from a remote place by the approver can be made smooth and the process can be prevented from becoming complicated.

  Therefore, this system eliminates the need to refrain from a month-end business trip for the purpose of stamping or to rush up and round it up for that purpose. For example, it is possible to make a seal even from a foreign country or hospital.

  Thus, according to the present invention, the Oriental tradition of seals can be inherited, and the freedom of lifestyle for managers and managers can be increased.

It is a system configuration figure of a first embodiment. It is a figure explaining a stamping process. It is a whole block diagram of the remote approval system of 2nd embodiment. It is a processing flow of the remote approval process in 2nd embodiment. It is a functional block diagram of each apparatus of a remote approval system. It is a hardware block diagram of an electronic bulletin board apparatus. It is a table block diagram of the electronic bulletin board memorize | stored in the hard disk. It is an example of a “staff information” table. It is an example of a “thread data” table. It is an example of a “posted article data” table. It is a data processing flow in this remote approval system. It is a screen structural example of the electronic bulletin board top screen displayed with a Web browser. It is an example of composition of contribution window screen information. It is a screen block diagram of the electronic bulletin board after an electronic bulletin board update process. It is a block diagram of the screen displayed on a mobile telephone. It is an example of composition of a president's contribution article screen displayed on a contribution reading terminal. It is a structural example of the approval confirmation screen displayed on a mobile telephone. It is a whole block diagram of the remote approval system of 3rd embodiment. It is a processing flow of the remote approval process in 3rd embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Mobile phone with camera 2 ... Remote approval device 3 ... Antenna 4 ... Authorizer 5 ... Mobile phone with camera 6 ... Remote control unit 7 ... Automatic stamping machine 8.・ ・ Responsible person 9 ... Seal 10 ... Approval document

Claims (2)

Posting of settlement request information from the portable device and the posting viewing terminal for the electronic bulletin board of the electronic bulletin board device or browsing related to the approval request information by communication connection of the posting browsing terminal and the portable device to the electronic bulletin board device In an electronic bulletin board system for browsing information,
An automatic marking system connected to the electronic bulletin board device and the portable device via a communication network;
The electronic bulletin board device includes:
When receiving automatic stamp request information together with approval request information from the posting browsing terminal, automatic stamp request information management means for managing the approval request information and the automatic stamp request information in association with each other;
The input items of the personal authentication information and the approval information are added to the approval request information and distributed to the mobile device, and the personal authentication information and the approval information transmitted from the mobile device are stored in association with the approval request information. Mobile device input information management means,
Identity authentication means for performing identity authentication based on the identity authentication information transmitted from the mobile device;
A browsing information generating means for generating the browsing information by associating the approval request information and specific approval person approval information with the corresponding approval information when the personal authentication is established;
Automatic seal notifying means for transmitting the automatic seal request information and the corresponding approval request information to the automatic seal system when the personal authentication is established and the automatic seal request information is associated;
Have
The automatic marking system is
Second authentication means for performing personal authentication with the portable device,
Mutual arrangement image transmitting means for acquiring a mutual arrangement image of a final approval document for which an automatic seal request is notified from the electronic bulletin board apparatus and a seal stamped on the final approval document, and transmitting the image to the portable device; ,
Based on the seal execution instruction information transmitted from the portable device, a stamping means for stamping the seal on the final approval document;
The portable device is
Display input means for displaying the approval request information and the input item received from the electronic bulletin board apparatus, and allowing the authorizer to input the personal authentication information and the approval information to the input item;
Input information transmitting means for transmitting the personal authentication information and the approval information input to the settlement request information to the electronic bulletin board apparatus;
A third authenticating means for mutually authenticating each other with the automatic marking system;
Mutual arrangement image reproduction means for reproducing the mutual arrangement image transmitted from the automatic marking system;
Waiting for the stamp execution instruction input by the authorizer, and when receiving the stamp execution instruction input from the authorizer, the stamp execution instruction means for transmitting the stamp execution instruction information to the automatic marking system;
Having
This is a remote approval system using a portable device. Posting of settlement request information from the portable device and the posting viewing terminal for the electronic bulletin board of the electronic bulletin board device or browsing related to the approval request information by communication connection of the posting browsing terminal and the portable device to the electronic bulletin board device A remote approval method using an electronic bulletin board system for browsing information and causing an automatic stamping system to execute automatic stamping via a communication network,
Posting processing on the electronic bulletin board device the approval request information transmitted from the posting browsing terminal via a communication network,
The input items of the personal authentication information and the approval information together with the approval request information are distributed from the electronic bulletin board device to the portable device via a communication network,
Input processing the personal authentication information and the approval information in the portable device,
Identity authentication processing is performed in the electronic bulletin board device based on input information of the identity authentication information transmitted from the portable device via a communication network,
When the personal authentication is established, the electronic bulletin board device generates browsing information in which specific approval requester approval information that confirms approval by the approval person is associated with the approval request information that has obtained the approval,
When automatic stamping request information is added to the approval request information obtained by the approval, the automatic stamping request information and the approval request information are transmitted from the electronic bulletin board apparatus to the automatic stamping system via a communication network. ,
Authentication processing is performed via communication between the automatic marking system and the portable device,
After the authentication is established, the automatic stamping system acquires a mutual arrangement image of the final approval document of the final approval request case notified of the automatic seal request and the seal stamped on the final approval document, and transmits the image to the portable device. ,
Based on the mutual arrangement image transmitted from the automatic stamping system to the portable device, processing of a printing execution instruction from the portable device to the automatic stamping system;
A remote approval method using a portable device.