US 11,715,070 B2
Predicting upcoming missed clockings and alerting workers or managers
Michael A. Scarpati, Wellesley, MA (US); Thomas J. Walsh, Melrose, MA (US); and Gregory Lamarre Anderson, Westford, MA (US)
Assigned to Kronos Technology Systems Limited Partnership, Lowell, MA (US)
Filed by KRONOS TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Lowell, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/381,472.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/656,589, filed on Apr. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0318320 A1, Oct. 17, 2019
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/1091 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/1091 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/06393 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing alerts prior to potential missed clockings, the method comprising:
retrieving, via at least one processor, historical employee clockings data;
identifying, via the at least one processor, missed clockings based on an alignment of the historical employee clockings data;
extracting, via the at least one processor, labels each of which identifies one of the missed clockings as having been missed;
extracting, via the at least one processor, features representative of the missed clockings;
generating, via the at least one processor, a machine-learning-based predictive model trained to generate a risk score based at least in part on the labels and statistical correlations of the extracted features, the risk score indicative of a likelihood that a scheduled clocking will be missed;
calculating, via the at least one processor, the extracted features for an upcoming scheduled clocking within a prediction window;
generating, via the at least one processor using the machine-learning-based predictive model and based at least in part on the calculated extracted features, a risk score for the upcoming scheduled clocking;
determining, via the at least one processor and based at least in part on the risk score, that an alert corresponding to the upcoming scheduled clocking should be presented; and
presenting, via an electronic device, the alert prior to an occurrence of the upcoming scheduled clocking;
wherein:
generating a risk score for the upcoming scheduled clocking is performed in response to at least one of: a schedule being posted, a schedule being updated, or a missed clocking,
extracting features representative of the missed clockings comprises identifying an employee's miss rate for at least one clocking based at least in part on a location, and
the alert includes a response option that provides for the employee to clock in.