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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1998
Madoka Mitsuoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Youji Kohda, Kanagawa, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A job brokering apparatus for brokering jobs in an open network environment, such as the internet, without complicated negotiations between a job provider and a contractor. A CGI program (broker program) started from a WWW server connected to a broker ( ) in a network ( ), such as the internet, receives registrations and applications for offered jobs from unspecified job-provider clients and unspecified contractor clients a process of a contractor selector portion ( ), functionally realized by the broker program, refers to information about a job and to information about contractors to select a contractor, and notifies the job provider and the contractor using, for example, e-mail.