79 results about "Work activity" patented technology

A system and method is adapted to utilize the Internet as a medium for providing information and data management and sharing between diverse project team members. The project team members may be part of diverse functional organizations within one or more larger organizations, may be geographically separated, or may utilize differing information management tools to perform their work activities. Each team may have its own organization separate from the organization from which the team members are drawn. Moreover, the information and data may be financial, technical, marketing and the like.

An apparatus and method provide an elastic resistance to a free-range of motion of a user. A cord running through a pulley and connected at either end to handles permits assisted resistance control (ARC) and a leverage advantage. In ARC, release by an anchor hand, still maintaining a load, may provide consistent or reduced force on the other, active, hand. One bodily member, such as a hand, may selectively halt and move as an “anchor” member, thereby simultaneously exercising itself and exerting control over another “active” bodily member operating in a “free range of motion.” Thereby, motion of the active hand may continue throughout a range desirable for a physical therapy regimen, a sporting activity, a work activity, or the like. A full range of motion of a bodily member and all supporting portions of the body is possible, without excessive stress or strain on joints due to a mismatch of position and load common to prior art systems.

The present invention is directed to incrementing a well service rig in such a manner that activity-based and / or time-based data for the well site is recorded. The invention contemplates that the acquired data can be transmitted in near real-time or periodically via wired, wireless, satellite or physical transfer such as by memory module to a data center preferably controlled by the work-over rig owner, but alternately controlled by the well owner or another. The data can thereafter be used to provide the customer in various forms ranging from a detailed invoice to a searchable, secure web-based database. With such information, the customer can schedule other services at the well site. Further, the customer will have access to detailed data on the actual service performed and can. The present invention fosters a synergistic relationship among the customer and the service companies that promotes a safe environment by monitoring crew work activities and equipment speeds; improving productivity; reducing operation expenses through improved job processes; and better data management and reduced operational failures.

A versatile protective headgear which is a close replica of a football helmet, fabricated from a lightweight, suitable foam material that is conformable and resilient, capable of absorbing energy and protecting the wearer from lacerations and / or contusions from incidental contact in outdoor sporting activities. The headgear provides warmth and protection from moisture in cold weather, but the internal design also provides sufficient ventilation for year around use. The foam material can be produced in a variety of colors and has a smooth external surface that will accept paint and decals for authentic team identification. The headgear may be held in place by a standard football chin strap and is designed to have a removable face mask. The authentic appearance and cold weather protection it provides makes it an effective and desirable head covering for all cold weather recreational and work activities, including attendance at football games. Its flexibility permits packing for travel and storage. The simple construction from one piece of material makes is easy and economical to manufacture.

The present invention is directed to incrementing a well service rig in such a manner that activity-based and / or time-based data for the well site is recorded. The acquired data can be transmitted via wired, wireless, satellite or physical to a data center preferably controlled by the work-over rig owner, but alternately controlled by the well owner or another. The data can thereafter be used to provide the customer a detailed invoice or a searchable, secure web-based database. With such information, the customer can schedule other services at the well site. Further, the customer will have access to detailed data on the actual service performed. The present invention fosters a synergistic relationship among the customer and the service companies that promotes a safe environment by monitoring crew work activities and equipment speeds; improving productivity; reducing operation expenses through improved job processes; and better data management and reduced operational failures.

The invention relates to a performance appraisal log management system and a management method. A log management information processing functional module, a log management information storage functional module and a man-machine operation interface are arranged in a system information management platform of the management system. The management system realizes the evaluation and the effective management of work performance of employees through the record and the management of information of the employees and the log management information. The management system is applied to the management of the work activities, can regulate the work behaviors of the employees, establish the team work environment, improve the exchange mode of management information, and improve the work efficiency. At the same time, information intercommunication and resource sharing are realized among departments. The management system and the management method have the advantages of extensibility, reliability and safety in management range and at deep level, and easy operation. The dynamic, standard, and efficient flow-type management system is build to improve the levels of work routinization, automation and information integration.

Disclosed herein are systems and computer readable storages for identifying experts with particular talents among participants in an online social network. Identification of experts with particular talents identified by talent-labels can take into account multiple factors. One factor that can be applied is self-nomination. Individuals who offer to help others can be expected to offer assistance in areas where they have strong talents. Another factor that can be applied is endorsements by others. A co-worker making an endorsement can be encouraged or required to supply narrative that describes experience with the nominee's actual work. Another factor that can be applied is data mining by semantic analysis or other techniques, taking advantage of access to fielded databases that describe a nominee's work activities. One or more proficiency scores can be derived from these and other factors and used when responding to queries or generally when compiling expertise inventories or talent banks

Adjustable support pants or briefs are provided which include one or more of a waist section, hip support section, or leg section with leg openings. The support pants or briefs include first and second adjustable members positioned on opposite sides of a sagittal plane of the support pants or briefs which extend generally longitudinally along the garment. The adjustable members are adapted to increase or decrease at least one of the waist, hip, or leg opening circumferences to reduce the time and effort needed to don (and take off) the garment. The adjustable features of the support pants or briefs also permit the wearer to tighten one or more sections of the garment to accommodate the different physiques of wearers while providing a snug fit and support during athletic or work activities.

A “digital workbench”, especially designed for the data needs of an industrial plant or shop. The workbench incorporates two monitors, a CPU, and various input and output devices, including a camera, which may be used to capture work activities.

A computer-implemented method for job seeking is disclosed. The method includes receiving a user request to search job openings, which request includes desired work field and user education information. Responsive to the user request, the user is prompted to provide information comprising one or more assertions associated with the user preferences with respect to one or more skills, abilities, work activities and one or more work styles. Further, based on the user request and the provided information, scores associated with a plurality of predetermined occupations are calculated. The scores identify how the user is favorable for every predetermined occupation. The method then identifies and displays a list of predetermined occupations being the most favorable for the user. The user is then prompted to select one or more predetermined occupations, and responsive thereto, the user is selectively provided with a list of job openings associated with the selected predetermined occupations.

A computer program, method, and apparatus serving as a tool for analyzing teamwork activities performed by a group of workers at a particular workplace during a particular time period, based on actual work log records of individual workers. In response to a teamwork analysis request specifying a group of workers, a teamwork finder extracts two workers' individual work log records having overlapping work periods. If their other data fields coincide at least in part, the teamwork finder finds the extracted log records to be of a teamwork activity. A teamwork log generator produces teamwork log records from the individual work log records identified as being of teamwork activities. The produced teamwork log records are then stored in a teamwork log database.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a danger source risk management and control method and device. The method comprises danger source identification and danger source management, wherein the danger source identification is used for identifying danger factors of work activities and facilities and equipment, and the danger source management is used for carrying out management and control on danger sources in the work activities to prevent risks. An informatization platform for effectively suppressing generation of accidents and controlling loss degree of the accidents are established; and the danger sources can be subjected to management and control through combination of a hidden danger database and a safety checklist database and by utilizing a computer and a mobile terminal, and fundamental management and control of the danger sources are realized by utilizing a potential safety hazard checking and solving module, a hazardous operation module and a safety check module, thereby enhancing control of the danger sources, improving safety management level, reducing accident loss late, ensuring life and property safety and improving work benefits.

An apparatus and method provide an elastic resistance to a free-range of motion of a user. A cord running through a pulley and connected at either end to handles permits assisted resistance control (ARC) and a leverage advantage. In ARC, release by an anchor hand, still maintaining a load, may provide consistent or reduced force on the other, active, hand. One bodily member, such as a hand, may selectively halt and move as an “anchor” member, thereby simultaneously exercising itself and exerting control over another “active” bodily member operating in a “free range of motion.” Thereby, motion of the active hand may continue throughout a range desirable for a physical therapy regimen, a sporting activity, a work activity, or the like. A full range of motion of a bodily member and all supporting portions of the body is possible, without excessive stress or strain on joints due to a mismatch of position and load common to prior art systems.

A system for managing time related work activities of one or more workers for one or more clients including a computer system having a management component configured to track and manage procurement of labor resources for one or more clients. The management component further is configured to allow a first person access to the computer system to approve or reject a job requisition or a time sheet stored in the computer system by entering first identifying indicia known to the computer system and unique to the first person. The management component includes a communication module for transmitting to the first person an electronic message notifying the first person that either a job requisition or time sheet needs to be acted upon by either rejecting or approving the job requisition or the time sheet. The electronic message includes bypass means for allowing the first person to access the computer system to approve or reject either a job requisition or time sheet that needs to be acted upon without entering the first identifying indicia. The bypass means preferably includes a hotlink unique to the job requisition or the time sheet that needs to be acted upon.

The embodiment provides detection methods and devices for memory leaks,which is used to automatically detected the technical results of memory leaks. The method comprises a memory test module monitors each work Activity for a target application; when the any exit of the activity described is monitored, and described the Activity of one or more references are not cleared, a memory leak of the described target application will be determined; one or more references that are not cleared are dumped to one or more binary dump file hprof files of the target application one by one, the hprof file is capable of representing a reference relation to a reference, the referenced chain for each of the referenced references is identified, the chain of references that cause memory leaks from one or more referenced chains can be identified.

An adjustable suit is provided which includes an optional torso section having front and back portions and a torso circumference, a waist section having a front portion and a back portion and a waist section circumference, and a leg section including a pair of legs. Each of the legs has a leg opening therein, and each of the leg openings has a leg opening circumference. The suit includes at least one adjustable member which extends generally along at least one of the optional torso, waist, and leg sections. The at least one adjustable member is adapted to increase or decrease at least one of the optional torso, waist, and leg opening circumferences to reduce the time and effort needed to don and take off the suit. The adjustable features of the suit also permit the wearer to tighten one or more sections of the suit to accommodate the different physiques of wearers while providing a snug fit and support during athletic or work activities.

A time and activity tracking system includes a hand-held device storing unique codes for a plurality of activities. A user can select an activity from the plurality of activities stored in the memory, and transmit the unique code to an electronic time clock, which associates a time stamp with the codes. The activities can include clocking in, clocking out, or various work activities or projects of the user.

A system and method of intelligent agent identification for a vehicle is provided. The method including the steps of a host computer system selecting an intelligent agent and determining a slave system to receive the intelligent agent. The host system encrypts a work activity to be performed by the agent, and predetermined host identification information, and programs the encrypted work activity and predetermined host information into the selected agent. The methodology randomly generates an identification code for the selected agent and programs the code into the selected agent. The selected agent is transmitted to the selected slave system via a communication network. The slave computer system decodes the host information and agent identification code carried by the agent, and determines if the decoded host information matches corresponding host identification information stored in memory of the slave computer system. The agent is denying access to the slave computer system if the decoded host information does not correspond. The methodology continues to check the agent identity by determining if the decoded agent identification code matches a predetermined identification code stored in the memory of the slave computer system. The agent is denied access to the slave computer system if there is no match, and is allow access to the slave computer system if the decoded agent identification information matches the predetermined identification code stored in the memory of the slave computer system.

A business method and process directed to enabling an employer who contracts with one or more government agency or with concurrent private and public works activities to process payroll on contract-specific bases in order to: generate certified payroll records for predetermined intervals; provide alerts and reports allowing said contractor to anticipate compliance vulnerability and choose real time manpower adjustments; provide evidence of meeting and exceeding government objectives as well as managing the assignment of personnel to enhance worker cooperation, spirit, and hence, morale.

A method of training relating to an organization's business includes the steps of demonstrating a strategy map of various levels of an organization's objectives and showing a relationship between workforce activities and the organization's objectives. A system for training relating to an organization's business includes a strategy map of various levels of an organization's objectives and a plurality of cards for showing a relationship between workforce activities and the organization's objectives.

A safety brake device for moving machine elements to prevent injury to the extremities of the operator of a machine if the distance of said operator from the moving machine element is less than a defined safety area. The device is characterized by an arrangement for detecting the operator position, in order to permit operation of the machine only if the operator remains within the defined working area, an arrangement for detecting the position of the extremities of the operator within a predefined safety zone, which enables the required work activities to be performed, and a brake device, by means of which the moving machine element can be immediately stopped if the extremities of the operator go beyond the safety area.

Methods and arrangements for a method of monitoring a ticket resolution process, said method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: detecting, at a device, a ticket resolution initiation; capturing, based on the detection, user activity; identifying at least one work activity within the captured user activity; and storing, in a storage device, the at least one work activity. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.

The invention provides a method for preventing scalping tickets, belonging to a method for recognizing tickets and aiming to prevent scalping tickets in short supply. The method for preventing scalping tickets comprises the following steps of: directly printing information data of human biologic characteristics of a ticket buyer on the ticket surface of a sold ticket when selling the ticket; correspondingly, when checking the ticket, comparing the human biologic characteristics of a ticket holder with the information data printed on the ticket surface of the ticket to identify whether the ticket holder and a ticket buyer are the same people, thereby preventing scalping tickets. The human biologic characteristics provided by the invention are fingerprints of a human body, eye irises, a human face and the like and can be quantified into fixed data values after being collected by apparatus. The method provided by the invention can be widely applied to the fields such as transportation, competition, performance, visit, work activity and the like needing ticketing, ticket compliment and registration.

A work schedule for an employee, such as a contact center agent, may indicate various time periods when the agent should be engaging in specific types of work activities during their work shift. During the work shift, the agent may indicate an activity code identifying a type of work activity the agent is presently engaged in. The agent may deviate from the planned work schedule in various ways, including by starting later than the scheduled start time or leaving earlier than the scheduled end time. The agent may be allowed to “make up” a work-related time deficiency by working through a scheduled break or working earlier or past their scheduling work shift. If the agent successfully makes up the work-related deficiency within a time limit, then no improper deviation from the planned schedule is noted. Otherwise, a work-related deficiency condition may be recorded.

During a driving activity of an automobile, a work characteristic evaluating apparatus is provided for judging a factor (a physical work load or a mental load) of stress that a work activity places on the worker to evaluate a work characteristic. The work characteristic evaluating apparatus 1 comprises a masseter muscle myoelectric potential acqusition device 10 which measures and acquires myoelectric potential of a masseter muscle which moves independently of the driving activity of the driver, a work intensity acquisition device 20 which measures and acquires steering torque around the steering shaft as a work intensity of steering activity, a correlation calculating module 38 which computes a correlation between time-series data of the myoelectric potential of the masseter muscle and time-series data of the steering torque, and a judgment module 39 which judges whether the stress placed on the worker is caused by a physical work load or a mental load based on the correlation coefficient.

Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing a disciplined approach to managing accelerated performance activities. The method includes identifying an opportunity; developing an activity list of at least one of a task and a behavior that relate to the identified opportunity; performing a time study associated with the task and the behaviors; collecting a time study data resulting from the time study; collecting a performance data resulting from an actual performance of work activities, wherein the performance data includes a quality indicator; creating a scorecard for analyzing the correlation between the time study data and the performance data; identifying a issue presented as a result of analyzing the time study data and the performance data; generating and implementing a roadmap for resolving the issue; and training a individual affected by the roadmap in accordance with an action item contained in the roadmap.

The inventive concept is a wristband or sweatband towel combination which is attached to the wrist of a user who is involved in sporting or working activities and who uses the towel for wiping perspiration from various parts of the body of the user. The wristband or sweatband surrounds the wrist and may have a way of separately attaching the towel to the wristband. This means that it can be separated at any time. The towel itself can be folded into half or completely into a fully retracted position to thereby be placed on top of the wristband. At this location the towel is usable to wipe perspiration in a limited fashion.

A material management method comprises receiving, via a processor, data relating to work activities and material flows from one or more sensors; generating, via the processor, safety and productivity information based on the data relating to work activities and material flows; comparing, via the processor, the generated safety and productivity information with existing project plans and schedules of the work activities and material flows; determining, via the processor, a present state and relative progress of the project plans and schedules of work; and generating, via the processor, updated project plans and schedules of work. The material can be a load and the method can comprise controlling rotation of a suspended load by attaching two or more gyroscopic modules in communication with the processor directly or indirectly to the suspended load and independently controlling the two or more gyroscopic modules via the processor to control the rotation of the suspended load.

The invention provides a bracing structure of a high-altitude work movable arm support. The bracing structure comprises a main frame, an outer balancing pole, an inner balancing pole, an auxiliary frame and a telescopic arm, wherein the lower end of the outer balancing pole is hinged with the main frame through a pin shaft; the inner balancing pole is sleeved in the outer balancing pole; one end of the telescopic arm, one end of the auxiliary frame and the outer end of the inner balancing pole are hinged with one another through arm support pin shafts; the other end of the auxiliary frame is hinged with the main frame; a variable-amplitude hydraulic cylinder is arranged on the auxiliary frame; a piston rod of the variable-amplitude hydraulic cylinder is hinged with the telescopic arm; an arm support pin shaft variable-amplitude oil cylinder is connected between the pin shaft for hinging the lower end of the outer balancing pole with the main frame and the arm support pin shaft; and the main frame, the auxiliary frame and the arm support pin shaft variable-amplitude oil cylinder form a triangular structure. The bracing structure can reduce the collection height of the high-altitude work movable arm support when guaranteeing the same work height and increase the work height when guaranteeing the same collection height, has the characteristics of simple structure, high flexibility and reliable performance, and is compact and rational and convenient to control.