Patents by Inventor Russell Bode

Russell Bode 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).

  • Payroll management method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8260703
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for costing a roster. The method includes preparing a roster in a roster preparing means of the apparatus, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers, providing award information in a database of the apparatus for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, and calculating a roster wage cost in a processing means of the apparatus that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information. A respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information may depend on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Third Millennium Management Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Russell Bode
  • Payroll management method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7089200
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for maintaining a payroll, the method involving: preparing a roster; storing the roster in a processing means; receiving in the processing means attendance information pertaining to one or more workers; and comparing the roster and the attendance information by means of the processing means and thereby preparing a payroll. In one embodiment, the method includes authorizing the payroll in respect of a respective worker if the attendance information pertaining to the respective worker meets predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Third Millennium Management PTY LTD
    Inventor: Russell Bode
  • Payroll management method and apparatus
    Publication number: 20060122878
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for costing a roster. The method includes preparing a roster in a roster preparing means of the apparatus, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers, providing award information in a database of the apparatus for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, and calculating a roster wage cost in a processing means of the apparatus that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information. A respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information may depend on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventor: Russell Bode
  • Payroll management method and apparatus
    Publication number: 20010032119
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for maintaining a payroll, the method involving: preparing a roster; storing the roster in a processing means; receiving in the processing means attendance information pertaining to one or more workers; and comparing the roster and the attendance information by means of the processing means and thereby preparing a payroll. In one embodiment, the method includes authorizing the payroll in respect of a respective worker if the attendance information pertaining to the respective worker meets predetermined criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventor: Russell Bode