Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
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2002-04-29
2009-06-30
Jeanty, Romain (Department: 3624)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
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ABSTRACT:
A task management system assigns a plurality of tasks to a plurality of workers. The assigned tasks are dispatched according to dispatch orders. The task management system may designate a task as an immediate next task. The immediate next task is prioritized first in a dispatch order, and is thus the first task to be dispatched to a worker, or the next task to be dispatched to the worker if a task is currently dispatched to the worker.
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