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20140058784 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING CROWDSOURCABILITY OF A BUSINESS PROCESS - A method and system for recommending suitability of crowdsourcing a business process is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of business requirements pertaining to the business processes, and receiving one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. The method further includes generating at least one of a comparison matrix or an optimization function based on the plurality of business requirements and the one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. Lastly, the method provides a recommendation on the suitability of crowdsourcing the business process based on at least one of the comparison matrix or the optimization function. | 02-27-2014 |
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20140359418 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING TASKS OF DIGITIZING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for creating one or more tasks of digitizing an electronic document. The electronic document comprises one or more fields. The method comprising receiving inputs to define one or more characteristics associated with each of the one or more fields. The one or more fields are categorized in one or more groups based on the one or more characteristics. Additionally, a task is created for each of the one or more categorized fields based on the one or more characteristics associated with each of the one or more categorized fields, wherein the task comprises at least a user interface for facilitating at least one remote worker to input a response for the task. | 12-04-2014 |
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20150120350 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING ONE OR MORE CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS/WORKFORCES FOR BUSINESS WORKFLOW - A method and system for recommending at least one of one or more workforces or crowdsourcing platforms for a business workflow is provided. The business workflow includes one or more tasks. The method includes receiving a plurality of business requirements corresponding to the business workflow. The method further includes receiving one or more attributes associated with at least one of the one or more of the workforces or the crowdsourcing platforms. Thereafter, at least one of the one or more workforces or the crowdsourcing platforms are recommended for each of the one or more tasks of the business workflow based on the plurality of business requirements and the one or more attributes. | 04-30-2015 |
20150134396 | CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - Disclosed embodiment illustrated herein methods and systems for allocating one or more tasks to at least one computing device. The method includes, in a marketplace server, receiving a beacon message from the at least one computing device. The beacon message comprises information on availability of one or more computational resources associated with the at least one computing device. A service level agreement is defined for each of the one or more tasks based on the availability of the one or more computational resources. The one or more tasks are allocated to the at least one computing device based on the service level agreement and the availability of the one or more computational resources. | 05-14-2015 |
20160078392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING CROWDSOURCABILITY OF A BUSINESS PROCESS - A method and system for recommending suitability of crowdsourcing a business process is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of business requirements pertaining to the business processes, and receiving one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. The method further includes generating at least one of a comparison matrix or an optimization function based on the plurality of business requirements and the one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. Lastly, the method provides a recommendation on the suitability of crowdsourcing the business process based on at least one of the comparison matrix or the optimization function. | 03-17-2016 |