FUNCTIONING OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT FACILITATES DISTRIBUTION OF WORK

摘要

A request is transmitted to a computer operated by an approver, to respond with approval or disapproval for an employee to work on a project, before a bid identifying that employee can be accepted. Requests for approval or disapproval are transmitted based on one or more employees identified in a bid, by looking up a database, to identify the approver of each employee. To facilitate the look up, each employee to be identified in a bid is required to have a profile in a set of profiles of employees in an organization. After responses of approval are received for employees identified in bids, those bids are transmitted to a computer operated by a project manager. Obtaining approval(s) before a bid can be accepted increases the likelihood of work being done in a timely manner, thus improving the functioning of a computer system that facilitates distribution of work.

主权项

1. A method to improve functioning of a computer system that distributes work, the method comprising:
a set of computers preparing and transmitting to a server, a set of bids to perform work on a specific project selected from a set of projects identified in a database; wherein each bid in the set of bids comprises an identifier of an employee having a profile in the database such that a plurality of first skills identified in the specific project match a plurality of second skills identified in the profile; the set of computers or the server identifying by use of the database, an approver of the employee identified in said each bid; the set of computers or the server transmitting to a first computer operated by the approver of the employee identified in said each bid, a request to respond with approval or disapproval for said employee to bid on the specific project; for any bids in the set of bids for which an approval is received by the set of computers or the server, the server transmitting said any bids to a second computer from which the specific project is received; the server receiving from the second computer, a decision accepting a specific bid, based on selection thereof by user input from among said any bids; and the server transmitting to the set of computers, the decision accepting the specific bid.