CrowdEngineering Receives U.S. Patent 8,099,311 for Smart Crowdsourcing

San Francisco, CA and Catania, Italy - Jan 17, 2012 -CrowdEngineering announced today the issuance to it by US Patent Office of a patent that covers its core technology for Enterprise Crowdsourcing, the foundation of its flagship CrowdForce platform.

The patent for invention 8,099,311 titled "System and Method for Routing a Task to a User in a Workforce" is for a skills-based crowdsourcing system that selects workers among community experts taking in consideration their preferences and skills and taking into account performance and quality they delivered in the past.

"This patent confirms the uniqueness of CrowdEngineering.s solutions to deliver Enterprise Level Crowdsourcing," said Gioacchino La Vecchia, Chairman and CEO, CrowdEngineering. "After the industry and market recognitions we got we now secured our secret sauce. It confirms CrowdEngineering as leader in quality driven Crowdsourcing. This is what makes Crowdsourcing a suitable option for Enterprise Business Processes."

The patent highlights the potential represented by Crowdsourcing, re-defining the unique connection between the Internet and the job market. Smart routing of tasks and assignments in a Crowdsourcing environment makes it a real alternative to insourced and outsourced activities. In a period of economic downturn, Crowdsourcing makes it easy to deploy and manage skilled resources giving to business a powerful opportunity to improve quality and optimize costs. At the same time Crowdsourcing makes available many job opportunities that can be taken remotely. Working from home or even from the local coffee shop is becoming a real alternative to the conventional office. The Internet, zeroing distances, has finally made the job market really globally accessible.

About CrowdEngineering
CrowdEngineering is a company leader in the Crowdsourcing and Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management) businesses solutions in Europe and in U.S.A. Recently CrowdEngineering has launched Crowd4Self, a revolutionary product that makes crowdsourcing available for everyone in any business processes, which is integrated with Amazon Mechanical Turk. Today, a number of companies all over the world in the sphere of Telecommunications, Media, Finance and Public Administration thoughts to turn into Innovation Technology hiring CrowdEngineering to design and implement their crowdsourcing applications and their Social CRM strategy. CrowdEngineering raised $4M in a series A round in May 2011.

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