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Class 705/9 - Staff scheduling or task assignment

Subclass of Class 705 - Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Definition: Subject matter for scheduling of or assigning a tasks to
No. of patents: 1201
Last issue date: 02/18/2014

NumberTitleIssue Date
8655714Automatic time-zone sensitive scheduling
A system that enables a user to indicate time zones in their electronic calendar for corresponding time periods in the future, and that makes the future time zone information it collects available for scheduling purposes, so that free time can be correctly determine...
8560380Cycle planning tool with event conflict resolution for territory management
Electronically creating a schedule plan of events which replicates one or more previously scheduled events. A source date range is acquired into a memory of a machine. A set of previously scheduled events within the source date range is identified. A target date ran...
8504414Margin calculator for the temporary staffing industry
A system and method for providing accurate margin calculations for the temporary staffing industry. A database is provided to allow multiple users to enter parameters that impact the margin such as payroll, benefits, discounts, rebates, and per diem expenses. The sy...
8463810Scoring concepts for contextual personalized information retrieval
Information retrieval systems face challenging problems with delivering highly relevant and highly inclusive search results in response to a user's query. Contextual personalized information retrieval uses a set of integrated methodologies that can combine automatic...
8458015Methods and apparatus for analyzing user information to identify conditions indicating a need for assistance for the user
Systems and techniques for analyzing information relating to a user to determine whether the user requires assistance. Information for a user is received from sources selected to provide information relating to the user's activities and analyzed to determine whether...
8239249Work allocation tool
Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically allocating work projects to personnel based on work complexity level and level of knowledge and experience of the personnel. In one implementation, the methods and systems provide a work allocation tool that allows...
8032408Contract association method and system
A contract association method and system. The method includes receiving, by a computing system from a requester, a command for creating a service request. The computing system places restrictions on accessing contracts associated with suppliers. The computing system...
8019649Method of managing prospective business
The present invention reveals the next generation in customer acquisition procedures. LeadMaker™ (“LM”) is a relationship-based system for handling business customers and prospective customers during the period between initial response and follow up by sales. ...
7979303System and method for analyzing an operation of an organization
A method for analyzing an operation of an organization, especially in the context of an outsourcing. The method includes decomposing the operation along a value chain containing a plurality of processes, associating a process of the value chain with an element that ...
The system and method of the present invention allows a Chair to a meeting to pre-define an agenda in the meeting invitation and to send the meeting invitation to the Invitees/Attendees. The Invitees/Attendees receive the meeting notice to determine whether they can...
7953627Identifying industry segments with highest potential for new customers or new spending for current customers
A method and system are used to identify industry segments with highest potential for new customers or new spending for current customers. This includes receiving data, segregated into each of a plurality of industries, relating to a number of small businesses, cost...
7949554Methods, systems, and computer program products for calendar-based coverage monitoring
Methods, systems, and computer program products for calendar-based coverage monitoring are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving a coverage rule defining multiple covering entities for performing an activity for a covered entity and at leas...
7945468Notification of employees via pass code accessed web pages
Disclosed is an Internet-based database system and method (ASP), that enables school districts and temporary employment agencies to automate the dispatching (24/7) of pre-qualified substitute/temporary personnel to specified school/work site locations for specific a...
7945470Facilitating performance of submitted tasks by mobile task performers
Techniques are described for facilitating performance of tasks supplied by task requesters, such as by a task exchange server interacting with mobile task performer users available to perform tasks at various geographical locations. Some or all of the tasks may each...
7945469Providing an electronic marketplace to facilitate human performance of programmatically submitted tasks
A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed ...
7941336Segregation-of-duties analysis apparatus and method
A method and user interface for performing and displaying a segregation of duties analysis on an enterprise resource planning system or back office software system displays potential segregation of duty violations using selectable Venn, Euler, or Veitch diagrams.
7930268Workflow method, system, and data structure
A method, system, and data structure for implementing a workflow. The workflow divides a general work task of an enterprise into activities and associated relationships with respect to participating roles in the workflow. A checklist file is generated for each parti...
7925527Process control system utilizing a database system to monitor a project's progress and enforce a workflow of activities within the project
A process control system that automatically monitors processes and performs activities based on conditions detected during monitoring. The information needed to do the monitoring and perform activities is contained in tables in a database system. The process control...
7925528Estimating and scheduling additional calendar time in preparation for electronically called meetings
Method, apparatus, and computer program products for estimating, scheduling, and tracking preparatory work associated with electronic meeting invitations. When a meeting invitation is received and tentatively accepted, preparation time for associated work is estimat...
7925529Method and meeting scheduler for automated meeting scheduling using delegates, representatives, quorums and teams
A method, meeting scheduler and computer program product are provided for automated meeting scheduling using delegates, representatives, quorums, and teams. Meeting settings and invitees data are stored for a meeting. The meeting settings and invitees data includes ...
7908163Method and system for parallel scheduling of complex dags under uncertainty
A methods and systems for addressing parallel scheduling problem where a directed acyclic graph (dag) modeling t tasks and their dependencies needs to be executed on n unreliable workers. The methods and systems determine how workers get assigned to tasks (possibly ...
7904325System and method for complex schedule generation
A system and method for generating a schedule for multiple employees in a complex environment. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a schedule for multiple employees with varying skill sets for a time period, wherein the plurality of employees have vary...
7904324Method and system for assessing schedule performance issues of a project
A computer-implemented method and system for assessing schedule performance issues of a project. A Behind Schedule Performance Index (BSPI), an ahead/behind trend graph, a behind schedule report or an ahead of schedule report is generated. The BSPI excludes an ahead...
7895070Providing multiple views of a business process definition to different users
In one embodiment, a method for providing multiple views of a business process definition includes storing a model of a business process, and providing different view points of the model to different classes of users. ...
7895071System and method for multi-mission prioritization using cost-based mission scheduling
Described is a system for multi-mission scheduling. The system is configured to compile a list of missions, where each mission includes at least one task. Additionally, each mission has a mission value associated with it such that the mission value reflects an order...
7885847End user oriented workflow approach including structured processing of ad hoc workflows with a collaborative process engine
In a structured workflow system, a configurable workflow engine provides mechanisms for executing and scheduling the work items in a defined way. End users use their discretion and define their own “local” processes and “local” rules for processing work item...
7885848Resource optimization system, method and computer program for business transformation outsourcing with reoptimization on demand
Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program for managing services of human resources. The method comprises the steps of modeling human resources delivery services from a services provider to a client company to determine outputs from inputs and constrain...
7881957Identifying tasks for task performers based on task subscriptions
Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks, such as by an intermediary electronic marketplace or other task fulfillment facil...
7877285System and method for forecasting demanufacturing requirements
Demanufacturing workload is forecast based on anticipated volumes of equipment to be disassembled and/or salvaged, as well as equipment complexity factors determined by disassembly prototyping. Staffing requirements are unique for each customer and are based on the ...
7877283Multi-perspective business process configuration
A computer-implemented method for configuring a business process includes configuring a solution map and deriving a pre-configured set of collaborative business scenarios based on the solution map. The pre-configured set of collaborative business scenarios is then c...
7877284Method and system for developing an accurate skills inventory using data from delivery operations
A method and system for obtaining and storing accurate skills data relative to human resource objects of an enterprise. Relevant data is extracted from runtime processes that monitor the activities of the human resource objects and a metric value indicative of a ski...
7873533Comprehensive employment recruiting communications system with translation facility
An employment recruiting communications system selectively employs language translation to support multi-cultural communications. ...
7865388Apparatus and method for providing program protection engineering, security management, and report preparation for sensitive and classified projects
An apparatus and method using a program protection engineering (P2E) toolkit to provide program protection engineering, security management, and report preparation for sensitive and classified projects. The P2E toolkit is an implementation of security policies, proc...
7865387Method and system for scheduling a meeting for a set of attendees via a special attendee
A group scheduling solution offers an organized and formalized solution to the time management problem in which the desired meeting includes one person who is difficult to schedule. In the inventive approach, a scheduling system is provided in which a hard-to-schedu...
7853471Instance messaging auto-scheduling
A method and system for scheduling a meeting. The method comprises the steps of receiving a request from a participant in an instant message session to schedule a meeting; and running a natural language processing tool to determine meeting participants and available...
7853472System, program product, and methods for managing contract procurement
A system to facilitate contract procurement and contract management through an online contract procurement and management website over a computer network, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system includes an electronic contracting network ser...
7849052Electronic document manager
A system and method for managing electronic files and tasks in a way that is intuitive to the users, mimicking their environment, but “Process-Blind’. The system and method comprise a configurable structure that facilitates the accurate filing and subsequent loc...
7844481Internet package shipping systems and methods
A system and methods for shipping a package (12) from a package sender (16) to an intended recipient (18), utilizing Internet communications (30) to place shipping orders, request on demand package pickup, maintain and utilize prestored p...
7840435Effective security scheduler
The present invention provides a system and process for creating an effective work schedule for a security checkpoint. The process includes the step of analyzing passenger flow to determine the coverage needed to sustain required service levels, generally through si...
7840434Methods and systems for assigning multiple tasks
Methods and systems are disclosed for assigning multiple tasks to a technician. One method allows a user to interface with an Integrated Dispatch System and assign multiple tasks to at least one technician. Each task describes a repair of a telecommunications networ...
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