Job brokering apparatus and recording medium
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsMADOKA MITSUOKA, YOUJI KOHDA
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Abstract
A job brokering apparatus for brokering jobs in an open network environment, such as the internet, without complicated negotiations between a job provider and a contractor. A CGI program (broker program) started from a WWW server connected to a broker 300 in a network 500, such as the internet, receives registrations and applications for offered jobs from unspecified job-provider clients and unspecified contractor clients a process of a contractor selector portion 320, functionally realized by the broker program, refers to information about a job and to information about contractors to select a contractor, and notifies the job provider and the contractor using, for example, e-mail.
Claims11
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 offered job from contractor clients used by contractors, the job brokering apparatus comprising:
- a job offer notification portion for notifying the job offer to at least one job-provider client used by contractor candidates who can become contractors for the job when the job offer notification portion receives a job offer request from the job-provider client;
- a contractor determination portion for determining the contractor who contracts the job from among the contractor candidates who applied for the job when a job application has been received corresponding to the notification from said job offer notification portion;
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- a contractor determination notification portion for notifying those contractor clients that were notified of the job offer by the job-provider client and said job offer notification portion, of the fact that a contractor has been determined by said contractor determination portion.
A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for realizing a job brokering apparatus which brokers a job over a network by receiving a job offer request from a job-provider client used by a job provider, and receiving job applications for the offered job from contractor clients used by contractors, the program comprising processes for realizing:
- a job offer request receiving step, where a job offer request is received from the job-provider client;
- a job offer notification step, where the contractor clients used by contractor candidates who can become contractors for the job when receiving a job offer request in said job offer request receiving step;
- a job application receiving step, where a job application corresponding to the notification in said job offer notification step is received;
- a contractor determination step, where the contractor who contracts the job is determined from among the contractor candidates who applied for the job when a job application has been received in said job application receiving step;
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- a contractor determination notification step, where those contractor clients who were notified of the job offer by the job-provider client and in said job offer notification step, are notified of the fact that a contractor has been determined when a contractor has been determined in said contractor determination step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.