Patents by Inventor Gilad Brand

Gilad Brand has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11354610
    Abstract: Methods and systems for scheduling tasks for field professionals include: receiving a set of first requests for on-site assistance from a first set of users; receiving a set of second requests for remote assistance from a second set of users; assigning a plurality of location-based tasks associated with the set of first requests to one or more field professional; receiving real-time information associated with the one or more field professional including current location; determining based on the real-time information whether the one or more field professional can complete a location-agnostic task associated with a second request after completing a first location-based task and before starting a second location-based task; and assigning the location-agnostic task to the one or more field professional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ClickSoftware, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilad Brand, Yoav Kolodner, Alexander Shapirov
  • Publication number: 20200210936
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for scheduling tasks to field professionals include: determining real-time schedule information for field professionals independent from any schedule update received therefrom; determining, from the real-time schedule information associated with a first field professional, existence of a delay associated with tasks assigned to the first field professional; determining a likelihood that the delay will interfere with the first field professional arriving to an identified location associated with an assigned task at a scheduled time; determining from real-time schedule information associated with a second field professional whether the second field professional can arrive to the identified location; reassigning the assigned task based on the real-time schedule information associated with the first field professional and the real-time schedule information associated with the second field professional; and providing to at least one of the first field professional and the second fi
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: ClickSoftware, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilad Brand, Alexander Shapirov
  • Publication number: 20200210918
    Abstract: Methods and systems for scheduling tasks for field professionals include: receiving a set of first requests for on-site assistance from a first set of users; receiving a set of second requests for remote assistance from a second set of users; assigning a plurality of location-based tasks associated with the set of first requests to one or more field professional; receiving real-time information associated with the one or more field professional including current location; determining based on the real-time information whether the one or more field professional can complete a location-agnostic task associated with a second request after completing a first location-based task and before starting a second location-based task; and assigning the location-agnostic task to the one or more field professional.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: ClickSoftware, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilad Brand, Yoav Kolodner, Alexander Shapirov