Human resource auction system, human resource auction server, subscriber management server, license organization server, and application program

• US 7,636,673 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2002
• Issued: 12/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoneda, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, JAGDISH
• Application Number:
  US10/097,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20030158807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,839 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/37, 705/26
• US Class Current: 705/26.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A job seeker accesses a human resource auction site from his/her mobile telephone and registers his/her personal information therein ((1)). The human resource auction site obtains the job seeker'"'"'s license certificate from a corresponding license organization ((2) and (3)). The license organization requests a communication carrier to collect a fee for the license certificate issuance ((4)). The communication carrier pays the fee to the license organization instead ((7)). The communication carrier adds the fee for license certificate issuance to a communication charge paid by the job seeker to the communication carrier so that the fee for the license certificate issuance can be collected ((8)). The human resource auction site posts personal information of the job seeker and holds a human resource auction. Recruiting companies participate in the auction and each of them places a bid for a salary payable to the job seeker who matches the job requirements by the recruiting company ((5)). A recruiting company having offered the highest salary can successfully bid ((6)).

Claims

1. A human resource auction system, comprising:

a human resource auction server for performing a human resource auction between multiple recruiting companies bidding on services of a job seeker, the human resource auction server being configured to;

receive a bid electronically from each of the multiple recruiting companies for the services of the job seeker,

automatically determine which of the received bids is the highest by comparing the received bids, and

automatically generating and transmitting an electronic notification identifying which recruiting company submitted the highest bid and thus is the successful bidder;

a job seeker terminal used by the job seeker, the job seeker terminal being configured to receive the transmitted electronic notification;

a client of the recruiting company determined to be the successful bidder;

a license organization server for providing a license certificate; and

a network for connecting the human resource auction server, the job seeker terminal, the client and the license organization server in a radio or wired manner,

wherein the client in the recruiting company uses the license certificate provided by the license organization as objective ability information of the job seeker.

2. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a subscriber management server of a communication carrier,

wherein the subscriber management server of the communication carrier collects a fee for license certificate issuance as a communication charge from an account of a user of the job seeker terminal instead of the license organization server.

3. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein

the license organization server of the license organization downloads an application program to the job seeker terminal for displaying a screen for requesting authorization from the job seeker for obtaining a license certificate,

when a request for license issuance is made by the job seeker terminal under the authorization by the job seeker based on the application program, the license organization server issues and sends to the job seeker terminal the license certificate, which is in turn stored by the job seeker terminal, and

when registering for the human resource auction, the job seeker terminal sends the license certificate to the human resource auction server.

4. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein

the human resource auction server obtains, from the job seeker, contents of personal information of the job seeker,

the human resource auction server downloads an application program to the job seeker terminal for obtaining authorization from the job seeker to disclose the contents of personal information to disclosed servers, the application program being used to obtain authorization for disclosing different pieces of personal information of the job seeker to different disclosed servers, and

upon receiving the authorization from the job seeker based on the application program, the human resource auction server discloses to the different disclosed server the respective different pieces of the contents of personal information of the job seeker.

5. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein the job seeker terminal sends encoded personal information, which can be decoded by the license organization server only, to the license organization server to be stored as encoded information.

6. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein

the human resource auction server downloads to the job seeker terminal an application program for obtaining information indicating whether or not the job seeker agrees on fee payment for license certificate issuance, and

if the job seeker'"'"'s agreement is realized by the application program, the human resource auction server notifies the license organization server that the fee payment is agreed upon by the job seeker, and the license organization server issues and transfers to the human resource auction server a license certificate based on the agreement on the fee payment.

7. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein

the job seeker terminal stores a heading of personal information on a storage area which can be read without any password, and an application program running on the job seeker terminal searches the storage area so that the heading of personal information stored in the job seeker terminal can be identified, and

in accordance with permission of the job seeker, the application program reads applicable contents of personal information from a storage area of the job seeker terminal which cannot be read without permission of the job seeker and enters the applicable contents in a personal information entering field on a screen.

8. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a subscriber management server of a communication carrier,

wherein the human resource auction is performed based on personal information of the job seeker, and each piece of the personal information is signed by the subscriber management server and stored in the job seeker terminal.

9. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:

a subscriber management server operated by a communication carrier on the network, the subscriber management server being adapted to collect a fee for license certificate issuance as a communication charge from an account of a user of the job seeker terminal instead of the license organization server.

10. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:

a license organization server that issues and sends to the job seeker terminal a license certificate in accordance with a request from the job seeker terminal.

11. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:

a license organization server adapted to receive encoded personal information from the job seeker terminal and decode the personal information for purpose of issuing a license certificate for the job seeker to be used during the human resource auction.

12. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:

a subscriber management server operated by a communication carrier on the network, the subscriber management server being adapted to sign each piece of the personal information, each signed piece of the personal information being stored in the job seeker terminal.

13. The human resource auction system according to claim 1, wherein the job seeker terminal is a mobile telephone.

14. An auction server for performing a human resource auction in a human resource auction system, the auction server being configured to:

register a job seeker terminal used by a job seeker for the auction, the job seeker terminal being connected to the human resource auction server via a radio-based or wire-based network;

receive personal information of the job seeker from the job seeker terminal at the time of registration for the auction;

automatically determine a successful bid for the job seeker'"'"'s services by comparing a plurality of bids received electronically from clients of a plurality of recruiting companies, the clients being connected to the human resource auction server via the network; and

when personal information of the job seeker is received from the job seeker terminal at the time of registration for the auction, identify the job seeker'"'"'s license information in the personal information;

obtain a license certificate relating to the job seeker from a license organization server in response to identifying the job seeker'"'"'s license information, the license organization server being connected to the human resource auction via the network, the license certificate corresponding to the identified job seeker'"'"'s license information; and

automatically transmit the license certificate to the client of the recruiting company which transmitted the successful bid.

15. The human resource auction server according to claim 14, wherein the human resource auction server downloads an application program to the job seeker terminal for obtaining authorization from the job seeker to disclose the personal information to disclosed servers, the application program being used to obtain authorization for disclosing different pieces of the personal information to different disclosed servers, and

upon receiving the authorization from the job seeker based on the application program, the human resource auction server discloses to the different disclosed servers the respective different pieces of the personal information of the job seeker.

16. The human resource auction server according to claim 14, wherein the human resource auction server is adapted to:

download to the job seeker terminal an application program for obtaining information indicating whether or not the job seeker agrees on fee payment for license certificate issuance,

if the job seeker'"'"'s agreement is realized by the application program, notify the license organization server that the fee payment is agreed upon by the job seeker, and obtain a license certificate from the license organization server based on the agreement on the fee payment.