System and methods for selecting equipment and operators necessary to provide agricultural services
AssigneeHitchpin, Inc.
InventorTrevor Tee MCKEEMAN
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described for selecting equipment and operators necessary to provide agricultural services. Systems and methods are also described for scheduling the selected agricultural services and for rescheduling the scheduled agricultural services in response to events identified to be of potential impact to the services. The systems and methods are useful for increasing the utilization factor of equipment and equipment operators used in agriculture.
Claims13
A computer-implemented method for selecting equipment and operators necessary to provide agricultural services, the method to be carried out by at least one processor executing computer instructions, the method comprising;
- receiving, by an information manager, one or more requirements related to an agricultural service from a device of a producer;
- receiving, by the information manager, one or more specifications related to one or more pieces of agricultural equipment;
- receiving, by the information manager, one or more characteristics related to one or more operators;
- analyzing, by the information manager, the one or more requirements, the one or more specifications, and the one or more characteristics,
- producing, by the information manager and according to the analyzing, one or more candidate pairings of an operator of the one or more operators and a piece of agricultural equipment of the one or more pieces of agricultural equipment, the one or more candidate pairings selected to meet the one or more requirements related to the agricultural service;
- sending, by the information manager, the one or more candidate pairings to the device of the producer, wherein the candidate pairings include the specifications of the agricultural equipment and the characteristics of the operator of each candidate pairing;
- receiving, by the information manager, a selected pairing of the one or more candidate pairings from the device of the producer;
- sending, by the information manager to a device of the operator identified in the selected pairing, one or more of the specifications of the piece of agricultural equipment identified in the selected pairing, and one or more of the requirements related to the agricultural service;
- classifying, by the information manager, the operator and the agricultural equipment of the selected pairing as unavailable for the duration of the agricultural services.
A computer-implemented method for selecting equipment and operators necessary to provide agricultural services, the method to be carried out by at least one processor executing computer instructions, the method comprising;
- transmitting, from a device of a producer, one or more requirements related to an agricultural service, the one or more requirements including at least a requirement relating to an operator and a requirement relating to a piece of agricultural equipment;
- receiving, by the device of the producer, one or more candidate pairings of an operator selected from one or more operators and a piece of agricultural equipment selected from one or more pieces of agricultural equipment, the one or more candidate pairings being determined by a server based on analysis of the one or more requirements, one or more specifications related to the agricultural equipment, and one or more characteristics related to the one or more operators;
- displaying, by the device of the producer, a user interface providing the one or more pairings;
- sending, by the device of the producer, a selected pairing of the one or more pairings from the device of the producer;
- receiving, by the device of the producer, confirmation of scheduling the operator and the piece of agricultural equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.