Virtual office environment

a virtual office and environment technology, applied in the field of virtual office environment, can solve the problem that known systems do not provide an integrated environment, and achieve the effect of reducing associated costs and improving the usefulness and reliability of the system

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-12-21
ODESK CORP
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[0005] Known systems do not provide a integrated environment in which to a) select and identify potential workers, b) analyze and review historical user activity or data logs of monitored worker activity and provide productivity analysis, and c) effe

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Known systems do not provide a integrated environment in which to a) select and identify potential workers, b) analyze and review histo

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[0020] The following description sets forth numerous specific configurations, parameters, and the like. It should be recognized, however, that such description is not intended as a limitation on the scope of the present invention, but is instead provided as a description of exemplary embodiments.

[0021] The embodiments described herein are directed to methods and systems for creating a virtual office environment for assessing a remote user's or worker's productivity by connecting through a network. These embodiments can provide direct, cost-effective access to a global inventory of remote, knowledge workers by providing convenient execution of the steps of hiring, managing, and paying.

[0022] In one embodiment of the invention, a system allows a manager to build a qualified pool of skilled and knowledgeable workers regardless of where the workers are located. In one aspect of the invention, the pool of workers comprises workers located in several diverse regions of the world. By sel...

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Abstract

A system and method for monitoring remote employees, having a computer for a user perform job related tasks, wherein the computer is enabled to record various data regarding the user's use of the computer; and a network to transmit the various data to a storage unit, to allow the data to be accessed by an employer,

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60 / 689,109, filed Jun. 10, 2005.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates generally to methods and systems for creating and monitoring a networked virtual office environment. BACKGROUND [0003] Currently existing computer applications can be used for monitoring user activities such as reading mail written by a user, viewing web sites visited by a user, monitoring programs used by a user, recording a user's keystrokes, logging inactivity timeouts, saving activity logs, logging both sides of chat and instant message conversations for various messengers, recording changes made to a hard drive, storing lists of created files and directories, storing lists of deleted files and directories, and capturing information through screen shots. Existing applications also provide access to remote computers and allow administrators to shut down, restart, logoff, mess...

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IPC IPC(8): G09G5/00G06Q10/00
CPCG06F3/1454G06Q10/10G06Q10/0637G06Q10/06311G06Q10/0639
Inventor TSATALOS, ODYSSEASKARAMANLAKIS, STRATIS
Owner ODESK CORP
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