ELECTRONIC SELECT PROVIDER NETWORK

摘要

Described herein is technology for, among other things, an electronic services marketplace. The technology involves establishing a first tier of service providers, establishing a second tier of service providers, routing a service order to the first tier of service providers, and routing the service order to the second her of service providers if the service order is not accepted by one of the first tier service providers.

主权项

1. A method of delegating a service order, comprising:
creating a technician profile based on information for a service provider technician and associating the technician profile with a company profile comprising information for a service provider company; periodically establishing a computer database of a plurality of tiers of service provider technicians based at least upon technician profiles for the service provider technicians; routing, via a computer network, the service order to one or more service provider technicians from at least a first one of the plurality of tiers, based on acceptance of the service order by one or more service provider technicians from at least a second one of the plurality of tiers, wherein:
the service provider technicians are registered on a service provider computer network; andthe periodic establishing of the plurality of tiers is based on at least one cost function associated with the service provider technicians; and re-allocating at least one of the service provider technicians having costs lower than a first threshold, from the at least second one of the plurality of tiers to the at least first one of the plurality of tiers.