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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2006
Rina R. Schneur, Lexington, MA (US);
Roger Lee Tobin, Arlington, MA (US);
Raghavendran Sivaraman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rina R. Schneur, Lexington, MA (US);
Roger Lee Tobin, Arlington, MA (US);
Raghavendran Sivaraman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for assigning prioritized jobs at multiple locations to workers with the objective of maximizing the number of higher priority jobs assigned, with secondary objectives of minimizing worker travel time between locations and of balancing workload across workers. In doing so, the system, method and computer program product consider job data including job location, skills required, time required and additional job constraints, as well as resource data including worker location, worker skills, worker time constraints and additional worker constraints. The system, method and computer program product also consider travel time between various pairs of job locations and worker locations in order to optimize work assignments while minimizing travel time.