Patent ID: 7945468
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: one or more electronic databases having information about a plurality of open positions and qualifications for the open positions, and qualifications of a plurality of workers; one or more computers configured for filtering to determine, for each of a plurality of the respective workers, one or more of the open positions in the one or more databases for which the respective worker is qualified; the one or more computers configured for serving a plurality of web pages, with each different respective web page in this plurality associated only with a different one of the respective workers and accessible by a respective worker security code, wherein, for each respective worker web page associated only with the respective worker, the serving comprising serving information on one or more of the open positions for which the respective worker is qualified based at least in part on the qualifications of the worker listed in the one or more databases; the one or more computers configured for obtaining information about a new open position; the one or more computers configured for obtaining information about one or more of the workers that are preferred (“a preferred worker”) for the new open position; the one or more computers configured for updating electronically the information in the one or more databases to include information on the new open position; the one or more computers configured for notifying the one or more preferred workers that the new open position is now available for acceptance by at least serving information about the new open position to the respective one or more worker web pages associated only with the one or more respective preferred workers in response to one or more respective electronic requests for open positions by or for the one or more preferred workers; the one or more computers configured for serving the one or more web pages of the one or more preferred workers with an electronic capability to make an electronic acceptance of the position in response to the one or more respective electronic requests by or for the one or more preferred workers; the one or more computers configured for automatically assigning the new open position only to one of the one or more preferred workers during a specified time period, in direct response to receipt of an electronic acceptance of the new open position from one of the one or more preferred workers and removing the position as an available for acceptance open position; the one or more computers configured for automatically making available for acceptance the new open position to one or more additional respective worker web pages associated only with one or more additional respective workers that are qualified, if one of the one or more preferred workers has not accepted the new open position before expiration of the specified time period and for serving the one or more web pages of the one or more respective additional workers with an electronic capability to make an electronic acceptance of the position in response to one or more respective electronic requests by or for the one or more additional workers; and the one or more computers configured for assigning the new open position, after the expiration of the specified time period, to one of the workers for which the new open position is made available for acceptance in direct response to receipt of an electronic acceptance of the new open position from that worker.