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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2019
Applicant:
Applied Underwriters, Inc., Omaha, NE (US);
Inventors:
Justin N. Smith, Woodside, CA (US);
Mark S. Nowotarski, Stamford, CT (US);
Assignee:
Applied Underwriters, Inc., Omaha, NE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G08B 3/10 (2006.01); G06N 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/063114 (2013.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01); G06N 7/08 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G08B 3/1016 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system verifies whether or not an employee is actually on a job at a location during a standard time period, such as a work shift, by sending alerts to the employee's smart phone. The employee must respond to the alerts. The alerts are sent at random time intervals with a certain average rate. The average rate, called a Poisson parameter, can be varied over the course of a shift.