WORK DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING WORK
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1. A work distribution system, comprising:
- an employer module that is remotely controllable by an employer, said employer module having a task object unit for creating and/or modifying a task object that corresponds to work to be carried out for said employer by a future worker;
an employer database unit comprising a task database for storing a plurality of said task objects corresponding to a plurality of employers and further comprising a task attribute database for storing at least one task attribute and corresponding task attribute value for each of said plurality of employers, wherein one of said at least one task attribute is a task price related to a task object created or to be created by the task object unit and wherein the corresponding task attribute value is the magnitude of the task price;
a worker module that is remotely controllable by a future worker, said worker module comprising a browse/select unit for browsing said task database and for claiming a task object present therein to indicate that said future worker will carry out the work associated with said claimed task object;
wherein the employer module comprises an employer ranking unit arranged to determine an employer ranking order for each task price in the task attribute database using an employer ranking algorithm in dependence of the magnitude of the task price, andwherein the employer module further comprises a task access unit arranged to delay the availability of a task object in the task database to a future worker by a predetermined time period after creating and/or modifying said task object in dependence of the corresponding determined employer ranking order.
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In a work distribution system and a method of distributing work, a plurality of task objects is made available for a future employer to browse and claim. Each task object represents work to be carried out for a particular employer. The availability of a task object to a future worker is delayed by a predetermined time period after creating and/or modifying the task object in dependence of a determined employer ranking order of the task object among the plurality of task objects.
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1. A work distribution system, comprising:
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an employer module that is remotely controllable by an employer, said employer module having a task object unit for creating and/or modifying a task object that corresponds to work to be carried out for said employer by a future worker; an employer database unit comprising a task database for storing a plurality of said task objects corresponding to a plurality of employers and further comprising a task attribute database for storing at least one task attribute and corresponding task attribute value for each of said plurality of employers, wherein one of said at least one task attribute is a task price related to a task object created or to be created by the task object unit and wherein the corresponding task attribute value is the magnitude of the task price; a worker module that is remotely controllable by a future worker, said worker module comprising a browse/select unit for browsing said task database and for claiming a task object present therein to indicate that said future worker will carry out the work associated with said claimed task object; wherein the employer module comprises an employer ranking unit arranged to determine an employer ranking order for each task price in the task attribute database using an employer ranking algorithm in dependence of the magnitude of the task price, and wherein the employer module further comprises a task access unit arranged to delay the availability of a task object in the task database to a future worker by a predetermined time period after creating and/or modifying said task object in dependence of the corresponding determined employer ranking order. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for distributing work, comprising in arbitrary order:
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storing at least one task attribute and corresponding task attribute value for each of a plurality of employers in a task attribute database, wherein one of said at least one task attribute is a task price related to work to be carried out by a future worker for an employer and wherein the corresponding task attribute value is the magnitude of the task price; an employer creating and/or modifying a task object that corresponds to the work to be carried out for said employer by said future worker; storing a plurality of said task objects corresponding to a plurality of employers in a task database, wherein said task database can be browsed by a future worker and wherein a future worker can claim a task object therein to indicate that said future worker will carry out the work associated with said claimed task object; wherein the method further comprises the steps of; determining an employer ranking order for each task price in the task attribute database using an employer ranking algorithm in dependence of the magnitude of the task price, and delaying the availability of a task object in the task database to a future worker by a predetermined time period after creating and/or modifying said task object in dependence of the determined employer ranking order. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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