SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC TASK ASSIGNMENT AND NOTIFICATION
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a change of management application configured to store a list of tasks;
a task notifier configured to retrieve a list of geographically-dispersed resources and notify selected ones of the geographically-dispersed resources of a priority of completion of one or more tasks retrieved from the change of management application; and
a message application configured to be polled by the task notifier to determine which of the geographically dispersed resources is at least one of online and currently working.
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Abstract
A system and method of managing and prioritizing tasks amongst resources and, more particularly, to a system and method for providing automatic task assignment and notification amongst globally dispersed human resources. The system includes a change of management application configured to store a list of tasks and a task notifier configured to retrieve a list of geographically-dispersed resources and notify selected ones of the geographically-dispersed resources of a priority of completion of one or more tasks retrieved from the change of management application. The system further includes a message application configured to be polled by the task notifier to determine which of the geographically dispersed resources is at least one of online and currently working.
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30 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a change of management application configured to store a list of tasks; a task notifier configured to retrieve a list of geographically-dispersed resources and notify selected ones of the geographically-dispersed resources of a priority of completion of one or more tasks retrieved from the change of management application; and a message application configured to be polled by the task notifier to determine which of the geographically dispersed resources is at least one of online and currently working. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for prioritizing tasks, comprising:
providing a computer infrastructure being operable to; store a list of tasks, geographically-dispersed resources and skills; and retrieve the geographically-dispersed resources which match with the skills of retrieved tasks and notify selected ones of the geographically-dispersed resources of a priority of completion of the retrieved tasks. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method comprising:
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polling a list of geographically dispersed resources to determine which geographically dispersed resources are online and/or currently working; and retrieving a latest list of tasks whose required skills is not null and prioritizing each of the retrieved tasks for selected ones of the geographically dispersed resources. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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30. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer program product includes at least one component to:
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store a list of tasks, geographically-dispersed resources and skills; and retrieve a list of geographically-dispersed resources which match with the skills of retrieved tasks and notify the geographically-dispersed resources of a priority of completion of the retrieved tasks.
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