Patent ID: 8595045

Claim:
A method for providing future job information, the method comprising: 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, wherein each of the turfs represents a geographic location and each of the buckets represents a discipline; displaying, by the computer in the graphical user interface, a plurality of hours columns, each of the plurality of hours columns arranged under one of the columns, each of the plurality of hours columns comprising a first plurality of cells, each of the first plurality of cells corresponding to one of the rows; displaying, by the computer 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 second plurality of cells, each of the second plurality of cells corresponding to one of the rows; identifying, by the computer, 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, a number of non-dispatched jobs scheduled for 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, by the computer, each of the second plurality of cells in the graphical user interface with the number of non-dispatched jobs within the future time frame for a corresponding one of the plurality of turf-bucket pairs.