Patent ID: 8249905
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing future job information, the method comprising computer-implemented operations for: displaying, in a graphical user interface provided by a computer having a processor and a memory, a grid having a plurality of turfs as rows on the grid and a plurality of buckets as columns on the grid; displaying, in the graphical user interface, a plurality of futures columns, each of the plurality of futures columns arranged under one of the columns, each of the plurality of futures columns comprising a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells corresponding to one of the rows; identifying a plurality of turf-bucket pairs, each of the plurality of turf-bucket pairs comprising one of the plurality of turfs and one of the plurality of buckets; determining, by the computer having a processor and memory, a number of non-dispatched jobs within a future time frame for each of the plurality of turf-bucket pairs; and upon determining the number of non-dispatched jobs within the future time frame for each of the plurality of turf-bucket pairs, populating each of the plurality of cells in the graphical user interface with the number of non-dispatched lobs within the future time frame for a corresponding one of the plurality of turf-bucket pairs.