Payroll management using networked client peripherals

摘要

A payroll company makes use of networked peripherals located with a client company's employees to perform tasks like monitoring employee attendance at jobsites according to schedule, using attendance data to compute wages, benefits and insurance premiums, permitting instant employee access to payroll and benefit data, and permitting the client's managers to actively check up on employees' statuses.

主权项

1. A system for reducing workers compensation insurance fraud comprising:
a) a personal programmable communications device; and b) a payroll server; wherein: c) said personal programmable communications device is controlled by computer readable instructions stored on a permanent memory to carry out the steps of:
1) allowing a user access to said device with a personal security code, said personal security code being assigned to an employee of an employer;2) receiving from said user a clock-in command at a clock-in time;3) receiving from said user a clock-out command at a clock-out time;4) transmitting to said payroll server said clock-in time and said clock-out time;5) receiving from said payroll server after said clock-in command but before said clock-out command, a first message which causes said personal programmable communications device to issue an audible alert;6) receiving from said user said personal security code within a specified time interval after said first message; and7) sending to said payroll server a notice if said personal security code is not received in said time interval; and wherein d) said payroll server is modified to carry out the step of transmitting a second message triggering an audible alert to said personal programmable communications device at a random interval after said first message, said interval being determined by a Poisson process wherein said Poisson process is controlled by a Poisson parameter and wherein said Poisson parameter is settable by employee type; e) said personal programmable communications device is modified to:
1) receive from said user said personal security code within said specified time interval after said second message; and2) send said payroll server a notice if said personal security code is not received from said user after said specified time interval after said second notice; and wherein f) said payroll server is controlled by computer readable instructions stored on a permanent memory to carry out the step of receiving from said employer a definition of an acceptable work area input via computer readable perimeters drawn on a map; g) said steps of controlling said personal programmable communications device further comprise the step of verifying said employee is within said acceptable work area when said personal security code is received after both said first and said second message; and h) said verification comprises connecting said personal programmable device to a GPS network.