SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF A MIXED WORKFORCE USING PRIORITY QUEUING OF AUTOMATED BID DISPATCH AND COMPLIANCE MONITORING

• US 20080275754A1
• Filed: 04/03/2008
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zurisoft LLC
• Original Assignee: Zurisoft LLC
• Inventors: Mugisa, Jackson
• Application Number:
  US12/062,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20080275754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system for coordinating and monitoring laborers and their agents in and across organizations is provided which includes a database, a computing apparatus, and a first and second network. The database contains information regarding a staffing requirement, including a time period a labor is required and a minimum professional qualification for the labor, a staffing schedule including data on whether or not the staffing requirement is currently filled, and a sequence of preferences related to filling of the staffing requirement. The first network includes a first digital messaging pathway between the computing apparatus and a first potential laborer, and the second network including a second digital messaging pathway between said computing apparatus and an entity possessing the staffing requirement or an agent of the entity.

Claims

1. A system for coordinating and monitoring laborers and their agents in and across organizations comprising:

(a) a database containing information regarding;

(i) a staffing requirement, including a time period a labor is required and a minimum professional qualification for said labor;

(ii) a staffing schedule, said schedule including data on whether or not the staffing requirement is currently filled; and

(iii) a sequence of preferences related to filling of said staffing requirement;

(b) a computing apparatus;

(c) a network including a first digital messaging pathway between said computing apparatus and a first potential laborer; and

(d) a network including a second digital messaging pathway between said computing apparatus and an entity possessing said staffing requirement or an agent of said entity.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said computing apparatus is adapted to select said first potential laborer in accordance with said sequence of preferences for the filling of said staffing requirement, and wherein said computing apparatus dispatches information through said first digital messaging path regarding an unfilled staffing requirement to said first potential laborer or agent of said first potential laborer.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein said computing apparatus is arranged to receive digital messaging through said first digital messaging pathway from said potential laborer or agent of said potential laborer.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein said computing apparatus is further arranged to set a database entry for said staffing requirement as filled in a case of a positive response from said potential laborer or agent of said potential laborer.

5. The system of claim 3 wherein in a case of a negative response from said first potential laborer or agent of first said potential laborer, said computing apparatus is further arranged to dispatch new digital messaging regarding said unfilled staffing requirement to a less preferred second potential laborer or agent of said second potential laborer in accordance with a sequence of preferences for the filling of said staffing requirement.

6. The system of claim 3 wherein said computing apparatus is further arranged to dispatch new digital messaging regarding said unfilled staffing requirement to a less preferred second potential laborer or agent of said second potential laborer in accordance with a sequence of preferences for the filling of said staffing requirement in default of a response from said first potential laborer or agent of said first potential laborer.

7. The system of claim 3 wherein said computing apparatus is further arranged to create a database record of a response of said first potential laborer which includes whether the response was positive or negative and how timely the response was.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the computing apparatus is arranged to automatically adjust said sequence of preferences for the filling of said staffing requirement based at least in part upon a how timely a response was.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the computing apparatus is arranged to automatically adjust said sequence of preferences for the filling of said staffing requirement based at least in part upon whether a response was positive or negative.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein preference or other compensation is awarded to a potential laborer or agent of a potential laborer based at least in part upon timely positive responses to said digital messaging.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein preference or other compensation is awarded to a potential laborer or agent of a potential laborer based at least in part upon timely negative responses to said digital messaging.

12. The system of claim 2 wherein said computing apparatus is further arranged to receive digital messaging from said entity possessing said staffing requirement containing a record of work performed.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the record of work includes information about the laborer, wherein said information is selected from the group consisting of:

the amount of work performed, the timeliness of work performed, and the quality of work performed.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the computing apparatus is arranged to provide preference or other compensation to said laborer based at least in part upon said record of work performed.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the computing apparatus is arranged to provide preference or other compensation to a third potential laborer or agent of said third potential laborer based at least in part upon said record of work performed.

16. The system of claim 3 further comprising a network including a third digital messaging pathway between said computing apparatus and a staffing compliance monitoring entity whereby said staffing compliance monitoring entity may access a staffing level database record of either or both a previously achieved staffing level or a currently scheduled staffing levels.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein said staffing level database record includes a number of laborers relative to a situational requirement.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein said situational requirements includes caregiver to patient ratios in a healthcare setting.

19. The system of claim 3 wherein the computing apparatus is further arranged to provide budgetary impact projections of current staff scheduling.

20. The system of claim 13 wherein the computing apparatus is further arranged to provide reports of the performance of a laborer or the agent of a laborer.

21. The system of claim 13 wherein the computing apparatus is further arranged to provide reports of the performance of a potential laborer or the agent of a potential laborer.

22. The system of claim 3 wherein the computing apparatus is further arranged to provide training materials or notification of new training materials or requirements to selected users.

23. The system of claim 3 wherein the computing apparatus is further arranged to collect data related establishing the receipt of training materials by selected users.

24. The system of claim 3 wherein the computing apparatus is further arranged to collect data demonstrating the exposure of users to the content of training materials.