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Method, system and program product for filling job orders

  • US 8,731,981 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2012
  • Issued: 05/20/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for creating wait list for display, comprising:

  • generating, by one or more computers, when an electronic criterion is met for a particular worker a first list to be communicated electronically of a plurality of existing jobs that are filled and/or that are not yet created, with the jobs on the first list selected based at least in part on job parameters specified by the particular worker and that the particular worker is eligible to fill;

    posting the first list of the plurality of jobs that are filled and/or that are not yet created and that the particular worker is eligible to fill, by a server configured in the one or more computers, to a respective individual worker webpage for the particular worker that is accessible by a password, with a wait list designator displayed indicating that the particular worker may be placed on a wait list for the associated job that is currently filled or not yet created by taking a first electronic action;

    receiving, by the one or more computers, an electronic communication indicating that the first electronic action has been taken by the particular worker for at least two of the jobs on the first list;

    placing, by the one or more computers, the particular worker on at least two respective wait lists, with each of the wait lists associated with a different one of the at least two respective jobs, wherein the respective wait lists have respective wait list orders;

    generating a communication to the particular worker when one of the jobs on the first list becomes open and the particular worker comes up according to the wait list order for that respective job, by the one or more computers, indicating that the particular worker may accept the job; and

    securing automatically assignment, by the one or more computers, the one job to the particular worker when an acceptance is received.

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