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US 2016/0104184 A1Published application
Rules gallery for incentives program
AssigneeThinkSmart Solutions, Inc.
InventorsMiguel Yacobi, Alfonso Garcia, Manuel Chilla
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Abstract
An incentives platform receives information about business processes from a plurality of businesses. The information includes specific performance information for employees of each of the businesses. Each business may use the platform to tailor an incentives program for its employees, where employees receive rewards based on their performance metrics. The platform includes a gallery of predefined rules for computing the incentives, allowing a business to select one or more incentives from the gallery.
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A method comprising:
- maintaining information describing rules for providing employees with benefits based on satisfying performance metric criteria, each rule identifying a benefit and one or more performance metric criteria;
- maintaining information associated with at least a set of the rules describing one or more prior implementations of a rule by one or more businesses;
- obtaining information associated with a business;
- selecting one or more rules from the maintained information based on the obtained information associated with the business and the maintained information associated with at least the set of the rules;
- identifying the selected one or more rules to an authorized user associated with the business;
- receiving a selection of a rule from the selected one or more rules;
- receiving authorization from the authorized user associated with the business to access at least a subset of information maintained by the business and associated with employees of the business;
- determining that an employee of the business satisfies one or more performance metric criteria included in the selected rule based on information associated with the employee in the subset of information maintained by the business;
- and
- communicating information describing a benefit included in the selected rule to the business in response to the determining.
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A method comprising:
- maintaining information describing rules for providing employees with benefits based on satisfying performance metric criteria, each rule identifying a benefit and one or more performance metric criteria;
- maintaining information associated with at least a set of the rules describing one or more prior implementations of a rule by one or more businesses;
- obtaining information associated with a business;
- selecting one or more rules from the maintained information based on the obtained information associated with the business and the maintained information associated with at least the set of the rules;
- and
- identifying the selected one or more rules to an authorized user associated with the business.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.