Patent ID: 6466914
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A job brokering apparatus for brokering a job over a network by receiving a job offer request from a job-provider client used by a job provider, receiving job applications for the job offer from contractor clients used by contractors, the job brokering apparatus comprising:a contractor information storage portion storing information concerning ability to process a job of each contractor; a contractor candidates determination portion determining contractor candidates who can become contractors for the job offer based on the information concerning the ability to process a job of each contractor stored in the contractor information storage portion when receiving a job offer request from the job-provider client; a suitability calculator calculating a suitability of the contractor candidates based upon the stored ability information; a job offer notification portion notifying the job offer to each contractor client used by each contractor candidate; a job application receiving portion receiving job applications from the contractor candidates including ability information used to recalculate the suitability of the contractor candidates; a provisional contractor determination portion determining a provisional job contractor who contracts the job from among the contractor candidates who applied for the job according to the suitability of the contractor candidates as recalculated based on the job offer and the received job applications; a condition reenter notification portion notifying each contractor candidate to enter new ability information when the recalculated suitability of the contractor candidate is not the highest; a contractor determination portion determining a job contractor who contracts the job from among the provisional job contractor and the contractor candidates who enter the new ability information by re-calculating the suitability of the contractor candidates based on the job offer and the new ability information to determine highest suitability; and a contractor determination notification portion notifying the job-provider client and those contractor clients that were notified of the job offer by the job offer notification portion, of the job contractor determined by said contractor determination portion.