Apparatuses, methods and systems for automated online data submission

• US 10,387,839 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2013
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monster Worldwide Incorporated (Randstad NV)
• Original Assignee: Monster Worldwide Incorporated (Randstad NV)
• Inventors: Wehrle, Richard C., Dellovo, Danielle F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Park, Grace
• Application Number:
  US14/070,221
• Publication Number:
  US 20140052658A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,118 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1053 Employment or hiring

Abstract

The disclosure discusses an AODSA tool that assists a user in submitting data responding to an online data posting. An embodiment of the invention is described as a job application utility. The user registers with a central data management system. This may be achieved by uploading a resume and/or manually providing registration data. Alternately, the registration data may be derived from parsing an uploaded resume that is analyzed and stored. In another embodiment, a user may simply answer a series of registration questions to register, while also creating a resume. Once the identifying information is finalized, the user is able to search the broad range of job listings. The user is able to forward identifying information to respond to a job listing by forwarding an uploaded/system created resume to an email address in the job listing or conduct an auto-fill of a linked online job application form.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented method for facilitating data submission comprising:

receiving via a processor an indication that a user of an employment service is browsing a non-employment-related website;

determining that a cookie associated with the employment service exists;

extracting an identifier from the cookie resolvable to a user account;

effecting the forwarding of user account information to the employment service based on the resolved account identifier from the cookie,

providing account access to the user account information associated with the cookie;

displaying a portable web module on the non-employment-related website, the portable web module containing job postings data from the employment service;

wherein the job postings data in the portable web module is updated based on the content of the non-employment-related website;

receiving a request for job-specific data from a user interacting with the portable web module;

retrieving from a data storage module the requested job-specific data;

updating the content within the portable web module based on the retrieved job-specific data without updating the content of a non-employment-related webpage, wherein the non-employment related webpage is hosted on the non-employment-related-website; and

actuation of the portable web module to forward user-provided data to an employment entity associated with the job-specific data without the user leaving the non-employment-related webpage;

wherein the user-provided data comprises job application data, user data extracted from a resume, and details about a job posting and an employer associated with a job posting.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-provided data comprises job application data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-provided data comprises user data extracted from a resume.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the job-specific data comprises details about a job posting and an employer associated with a job posting.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the job posting data in the portable web module is updated based on the content of the non-employment-related website.

6. An apparatus for facilitating data submission comprising:

a memory; and

a processor disposed in communication with said memory, and configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions stored in the memory, wherein the process issues instructions to;

receive via processor an indication that a user of an employment service is browsing a non-employment-related website;

determine that a cookie associated with the employment service exists;

extract an identifier from the cookie resolvable to a user account;

effect the forwarding of user account information to the employment service based on the resolved account identifier from the cookie,

provide account access to the user account information associated with the cookie;

display a portable web module on the non-employment-related website, the portable web module containing job postings data from the employment service;

receive a request for job-specific data from a user interacting with the portable web module;

retrieve from a data storage module the requested job-specific data;

update the content within the portable web module based on the retrieved job-specific data without updating the content of a non-employment-related webpage, wherein the non-employment related webpage is hosted on the non-employment-related-website; and

actuating the portable web module to forward user-provided data to an employment entity associated with the job-specific data without the user leaving the non-employment-related webpage.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the user-provided data comprises job application data.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the user-provided data comprises user data extracted from a resume.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the job-specific data comprises details about a job posting and an employer associated with a job posting.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the job posting data in the portable web module is updated based on the content of the non-employment-related website.

11. A processor-readable non-transient storing processor-executable components for facilitating data submission, comprising:

a component collection stored in the medium, wherein the component collection, stored in the medium, includes processor-issuable instructions to;

receive via processor an indication that a user of an employment service is browsing a non-employment-related website;

determine that a cookie associated with the employment service exists;

extract an identifier from the cookie resolvable to a user account;

effect the forwarding of user account information to the employment service based on the resolved account identifier from the cookie,

provide account access to the user account information associated with the cookie;

display a portable web module on the non-employment-related website, the portable web module containing job postings data from the employment service;

receive a request for job-specific data from a user interacting with the portable web module;

retrieve from a data storage module the requested job-specific data;

update the content within the portable web module based on the retrieved job-specific data without updating the content of a non-employment-related webpage, wherein the non-employment related webpage is hosted on the non-employment-related-website; and

actuating the portable web module to forward user-provided data to an employment entity associated with the job-specific data without the user leaving the non-employment-related webpage.

12. The processor-readable non-transient storing processor-executable components for facilitating data submission of claim 11, wherein the user-provided data comprises job application data.

13. The processor-readable non-transient storing processor-executable components for facilitating data submission of claim 11, wherein the user-provided data comprises user data extracted from a resume.

14. The processor-readable non-transient storing processor-executable components for facilitating data submission of claim 11, wherein the job-specific data comprises details about a job posting and an employer associated with a job posting.

15. The processor-readable non-transient storing processor-executable components for facilitating data submission of claim 11, wherein the job posting data in the portable web module is updated based on the content of the non-employment-related website.