Services scheduling
OwnerShashi Seth, Sergio Monsalve +3inventors
InventorsShashi Seth, Sergio Monsalve, David Feller, Robert Veres, Erik Rannala
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Abstract
A system and a method to receive a price submission in connection with a service at an incremental time block is described. Schedule information is to be received from a service provider. The information indicates at least one incremental time block at which the service provider is available to provide the service. The schedule information is to be published to a service consumer. A price submission in connection with at least one incremental time block is to be received from the service consumer.
Claims38
A system comprising:
- a publisher module to publish schedule information to a service consumer, the schedule information having a listing of at least one time block at which a service provider is available to provide a service;
- and
- an interface to receive the schedule information from the service provider, and to receive from the service consumer a price submission in connection with the at least one time block.
A system comprising:
- a publisher module to publish schedule information to a service consumer, the schedule information to indicate at least one time block at which a service provider is available to provide a service;
- and
- an interface to receive the schedule information from the service provider, and to receive from the service consumer a bid in connection with the at least one time block.
A method comprising:
- receiving schedule information from a service provider, the schedule information indicating at least one time block at which the service provider is available to provide a service;
- publishing the schedule information to a service consumer;
- and
- receiving from the service consumer a bid in connection with the at least one time block.
A method comprising:
- receiving schedule information from a plurality of service providers, the schedule information indicating at least one time block at which the plurality of service providers are available to provide a service;
- publishing the schedule information to a service consumer;
- and
- receiving from the service consumer a price submission in connection with the at least one time block.
A system comprising:
- means for publishing schedule information to a service consumer, the schedule information indicating at least one incremental time block at which a service provider is available to provide a service;
- and
- means for receiving schedule information from a service provider and for receiving from the service consumer a bid in connection with the at least one incremental time block.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.