Patents by Inventor Todd Forest

Todd Forest 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).

  • Method and apparatus for employment system distributed hiring and co-operative pooling
    Patent number: 7870079
    Abstract: A method of operating an employment system is provided. The method includes enabling a first user associated with an employee seeker to enter a shell for a position and enabling a second user associated with the employee seeker to enter additional information about the position. The second user is distinctly identifiable by the employment system from the first user. The method also includes associating an employment seeker with the position. Alternatively, the method includes categorizing a first set of one or more employment seekers as public and categorizing a second set of one or more employment seekers as participants in a co-operative. The method also includes enabling all employee seekers to access or view information about members of the first set and enabling all employee seekers that are members of the co-operative to access or view information about members of the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Jobfox, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert McGovern, Erik Anderson, Richard Ellinger, Todd Forest, Matthew Hagopian
  • Method and apparatus for employment system distributed hiring and co-operative pooling
    Publication number: 20080027747
    Abstract: A method of operating an employment system is provided. The method includes enabling a first user associated with an employee seeker to enter a shell for a position and enabling a second user associated with the employee seeker to enter additional information about the position. The second user is distinctly identifiable by the employment system from the first user. The method also includes associating an employment seeker with the position. Alternatively, the method includes categorizing a first set of one or more employment seekers as public and categorizing a second set of one or more employment seekers as participants in a co-operative. The method also includes enabling all employee seekers to access or view information about members of the first set and enabling all employee seekers that are members of the co-operative to access or view information about members of the second set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Robert McGovern, Erik Anderson, Richard Ellinger, Todd Forest, Matthew Hagopian