US 2019/0057340 A1Published application

Method and system for automated time management

OwnerKevin Sunlin Wanginventor

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Abstract

A method and system for automated time management is provided. The system is configured to track actual worktime and/or location of employees and independent contractors, predict potentially unauthorized additional worktime or overtime, automatically notify a supervisor of the potential overage, receive a decision with either an authorized adjustment to the worktime or a rejection, and communicate the decision to the employee or independent contractor. Time and location of employees and independent contractors are tracked and compared with an established field of acceptability for work requests involving designated locations and times. The field of acceptability may include the designated locations, as well as routes thereto and therefrom. The system computes a total work-time of the employee or independent contractor based on time periods where they are within the field of acceptability, and does not include time where they are not deemed within the field of acceptability.

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Dependent claims

A system for tracking work-time, the system comprising:

a server communicatively coupled to one or more computing devices via a network, wherein at least one of the one or more computing devices includes a location identifier configured to generate location data corresponding to one or more locations, and wherein the server includes at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with computer-readable instructions stored therein, a database, and a processor for executing the computer-readable instructions to:
receive, from at least one of the one or more computing devices, a work request, the work request including one or more designated times and one or more designated locations;
establish, by the server, a field of acceptability based on one or more predetermined rules, wherein the field of acceptability includes a first portion of aggregate data comprising at least one of (i) one or more location data sets corresponding to the one or more designated locations or (ii) one or more time-location data sets corresponding to the one or more designated times and the one or more designated locations;
receive, from an employee computing device of an employee assigned to the work request, an actual location data set or an actual time-location data set generated by the location identifier during performance of the work request;
continually determine compliance or noncompliance with the work request by comparing, in accordance with the one or more predetermined rules, (i) the actual location data set with the field of acceptability, or (ii) the actual time-location data set with the field of acceptability;
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compute a total work-time of the employee on the work request based on at least one of determined compliance or determined noncompliance of the employee with the work request.

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A system for automated management of work-time, the system comprising:

a server communicatively coupled to one or more computing devices via a network, wherein the server includes at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with computer-readable instructions stored therein, a database, and a processor for executing the computer-readable instructions to:
store, in the database, an authorized worktime amount for an employee over a time period;
continuously track, during the time period, an actual worktime of the employee;
predict, during the time period, whether the actual worktime of the employee will exceed the authorized worktime amount during the time period;
responsive to predicting that the actual worktime will exceed the authorized worktime amount, generating and transmitting a notification to a supervisor computing device indicating that the actual worktime of the employee is predicted to exceed the authorized worktime;
and
receiving, from the supervisor computing device, an authorized adjustment of the authorized worktime or a rejection;
and
transmitting, to an employee computing device of the employee, a decision, wherein the decision includes the authorized adjustment of the authorized worktime or the rejection.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/166,034Filed 19 Oct 2018
Priority: 11 Nov 2016
Published: 21 Feb 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 10/063114
Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group: status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
G06F 16/29
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: geographical information databases
G06Q 10/109
Office automation; Time management: time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
G06Q 10/1091
Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting: recording time for administrative or management purposes

Family

Application62/421,086Us provisional application · filed 11 Nov 2016
Application15/474,685Continuation in part · filed 30 Mar 2017
Application62/479,065Us provisional application · filed 30 Mar 2017
Application62/574,584Us provisional application · filed 19 Oct 2017
Application15/934,677Continuation in part · filed 23 Mar 2018
Application16/166,034Continuation in part
US 10,504,079 B2Related patent
US 2018/0137487 A1Published application
US 2018/0211724 A1Published application
US 2019/0057340 A1This patent

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