| 摘要 |
A server receives orders from customers and conveys orders to vendors that have equipment items for hire. Equipment items include radio frequency identification tags to monitor availability of equipment items. Each item of equipment is an equipment entity. Each customer order is a customer entity. The server establishes an intelligent calendar. Each entity has a status allocated over a specified period of time. The server responds to an order from a customer by allocating a shared status between a customer and equipment availability and issues an order to a vendor. The server establishes an intelligent calendar in which customer orders and equipment items have statuses allocated over specified time periods. Availability of equipment items is known from the tags. Responding to an order for the hire of an item of equipment over a hire period allocates a shared status within the intelligent calendar between a customer and an equipment item. |
