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20080279363 | Adaptive, self-learning optimization module for rule-based customer interaction systems - The invention relates to a call center system having automatic means for optimizing those rules that are enforced over interactions with customers, said system comprises: (a) an infrastructure which comprises a CRM module for at least handling the interactions with customers, and hardware means for at least maintaining the communication with said customers; (b) management rules, each rule comprising one or more rule parameters, said rules parameters enforcing interaction behavior during all interactions with customers; and (c) an adaptive, self learning module, for: (c.1) monitoring all interactions with customers; (c.2) upon completion of each interaction, recording a corresponding set of full interaction details, said set of full interaction details includes those rule parameters that were enforced during said interaction, and those additional interaction parameters that are specific to that interaction; and (c.3) using an adaptive engine, periodically analyzing one or more of said sets of recorded full interaction details, and producing one or more modified rules having modified rule parameters, and enforcing said modified rules over future interactions with customers. | 11-13-2008 |
20090010419 | System, Method, And Logic For Determining Presence Status According To The Location Of Endpoints - Determining presence status associated with a user includes receiving presence statuses of endpoints associated with a first user. It is determined whether an endpoint exhibits significant activity. If an endpoint exhibits significant activity, it is determined whether any other endpoint is co-located with that endpoint. An aggregate presence status is generated from the presence status of the at least one endpoint and presence status of the other endpoint. | 01-08-2009 |
20090016521 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR SETTING WAGE FOR CALL CENTER PERSONNEL - System, method and program product for dynamically setting a wage offered to a multiplicity of inactive call center personnel. First program instructions automatically estimate a wait time for calls to a call center. The calls are handled by a plurality of active call center personnel. Second program instructions automatically determine and set a wage, based in part on the estimated wait time, offered to inactive call center personnel to induce them to become active call center personnel to handle calls. Third program instructions, responsive to a request by an inactive call center person to become active at said wage, automatically designate the requesting inactive call center person as active at the wage and assign a call to the requesting inactive call center personnel that was designated as active. Program instructions also set a renewal wage paid to active call center personnel, based in part on the estimated wait time, to induce the active call center personnel to remain active. | 01-15-2009 |
20090067611 | Unified Command and Control of a Multiplicity of Heterogeneous Systems Supporting Call Center Functionality - A method and apparatus are provided for operating a plurality of call center products. The method includes the steps of providing an enterprise administration server and disposing a respective terminal adapter between the enterprise administration server and each of the plurality of call center products. The method further includes the steps of a terminal adapter of a call center of the plurality of call center products receiving a database instruction from the enterprise administration server; the terminal adapter mapping a database instruction between a protocol of the enterprise administration server and a protocol of the call center product and the call center product executing the instruction. | 03-12-2009 |
20090141885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING VOICE AND THE DATA ENTERED BY A CALL CENTER AGENT AND RETRIEVAL OF THESE COMMUNICATION STREAMS FOR ANALYSIS OR CORRECTION - Communications systems are provided, a representative one of which incorporates: a recorder operative to record information associated with a communication; and a first computer application operative to provide a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface being configured such that, responsive to a user input designating a portion of the communication via the graphical user interface, information corresponding to that portion of the communication and recorded by the recorder is presented to the user, the first computer application being further operative to construct an integrated data stream comprising at least some of the information recorded. | 06-04-2009 |
20090154685 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GEOGRAPHIC CALL CENTER STATUS AND SECURITY - An apparatus, method, system, and computer program product are provided for producing a geographical mapping of the status, activity, security, work-force, and other information of call centers. The systems and methods may receive call center data and call data, generate a geographical data, and display at least a portion of the geographical data. | 06-18-2009 |
20090196412 | System and method for orders and troubles metric attribution identification and aggregation - A system and method for identifying, marking, retaining and aggregating attribute metrics for service order and trouble tickets (ticket data) may be performed as the service order and trouble tickets are loaded into a central data repository to allow user summary reports to be created. Ticket data may be received from remote data repositories by a central repository. The ticket data by then be stored in data records at the central location, then attributes of the ticket data may be calculated. A summary table of the ticket data may then be stored at the central repository, which the metric data in the summary table being updated as records are processed. A report of the attributes may then be generated directly from the summary table. | 08-06-2009 |
20090252319 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISPLAYING CUSTOMIZED CALL CENTER OPERATING STATISTICS BASED ON USER PROFILE INFORMATION - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically displaying customized call center operating statistics based on user profile information. According to one aspect, a method for automatically displaying customized call center operating statistics based on user profile information is provided. The method includes receiving user profile information associated with a user, wherein the user profile information uniquely identifies the user seeking access to customized call center operating statistics. Customized call center operating statistics to be displayed are automatically determined based on the user profile information. The customized call center operating statistics are then displayed to the user. | 10-08-2009 |
20100158236 | System and Methods for Tracking Unresolved Customer Involvement with a Service Organization and Automatically Formulating a Dynamic Service Solution - A system for managing customer involvement with a contact center involves one or more monitoring applications executing on one or more computerized servers associated with the contact center, the applications monitoring communications between individual customers and the center; and a rules engine executing on the one or more computerized servers, the rules engine accessible to the monitoring application, the rules engine enabled to generate and implement business rules. Upon detection by one of the monitoring applications of an instance of unsuccessful or incomplete interaction between a customer and the contact center, session data determined during monitoring is used by the rules engine to determine contact center-initiated activity to be implemented to establish new communication with the customer to resolve issues related to the unsuccessful or incomplete interaction. | 06-24-2010 |
20110044447 | TREND DISCOVERY IN AUDIO SIGNALS - Techniques for processing data representative of text associated with one or more content sources to generate a specification of a set of keyphrases of interest; processing a first set of audio signals collected during a first time period to generate first data characterizing putative occurrences of one or more keyphrases of the set in the first set of audio signals; evaluating the first data to generate keyphrase-specific comparison values for the first set of audio signals; deriving first trending data between the first set of audio signals and a second set of audio signals based in part on an analysis of the keyphrase-specific comparison values for the first set of audio signals relative to stored keyphrase-specific baseline values; and generating a visual representation of at least some of the first trending data and causing the visual representation of the first trending data to be presented on a display terminal. | 02-24-2011 |
20110206198 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AND ANALYZING INTERACTION BASED CONTENT - An apparatus and methods for capturing and analyzing customer interactions the apparatus comprising interaction information units, interaction meta-data information units associated with each of the interaction information units, a rule based analysis engine component for receiving the interaction information, an adaptive database, an interaction capture and storage component for capturing interaction information, a multi segment interaction capture device, an initial set up and calibration device and a pre processing and content extraction device. | 08-25-2011 |
20110255681 | BITMAPS FOR NEXT GENERATION CONTACT CENTER - A queueless contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. The contact center proposed herein provides the ability to, among other things, achieve true one-to-one matching. Solutions are also provided for managing data structures utilized by the queueless contact center. Furthermore, mechanisms for generating traditional queue-based performance views and metrics for the queueless contact center are proposed to help facilitate a smooth transition from traditional queue-based contact centers to the next generation contact centers described herein. | 10-20-2011 |
20110255682 | HIGH PERFORMANCE QUEUELESS CONTACT CENTER - A queueless contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. The contact center proposed herein provides the ability to, among other things, achieve true one-to-one matching. Solutions are also provided for managing data structures utilized by the queueless contact center. Furthermore, mechanisms for generating traditional queue-based performance views and metrics for the queueless contact center are proposed to help facilitate a smooth transition from traditional queue-based contact centers to the next generation contact centers described herein. | 10-20-2011 |
20110299676 | CUSTOMER CARE SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH CALL AVOIDANCE PROCESSING - Methods and systems for managing customer activity in a call center include monitoring event data. A mediator filters the event data into an event data set associated with a selected customer. A context component creates a context for the customer based on the event data set. A decision engine performs a probabilistic assessment of an occurrence related to the customer, based on the customer context, and determines an action based on the probabilistic assessment. An action processor initiates the action. | 12-08-2011 |
20130039483 | Automatic Supervisor Intervention for Calls in Call Center Based Upon Video and/or Speech Analytics of Calls - A method, a system and computer readable storage media facilitate establishing a plurality of simultaneously occurring communication sessions between call agent devices and customer devices at a call center communication system. Each communication session is monitored to determine a priority score associated with each communication session, where each priority score provides an indication of a potential problem associated with the corresponding communication session. An indication of the priority score associated with each communication session is provided to a supervisor device. | 02-14-2013 |
20130208880 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVOLUTIONARY CONTACT CENTER BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - A web-based contact center state engine provides data describing the state of the contact center system and actionable intelligence including key performance indicators. The contact center state engine may be utilized in conjunction with the network monitoring appliance which processes and manages exceptions to the call center data allowing for action, exceptions and escalation, thereby alerting an organization to an issue and providing recommended actions in addition to post event forensic data. | 08-15-2013 |
20130251135 | OPERATING MANAGEMENT OF A CALL CENTER - To check the status of an agent assigned to a call center in which geographic areas are respectively associated with geographic area identifiers (IdZ) communication terminals (TC) are respectively associated with geographic areas, a mobile terminal (TM) in possession of a monitor capable of moving within geographic areas determines the geographic area's identifier within which an agent is located. The mobile terminal transmits a request comprising the geographic area's identifier to the data management server in order to retrieve from a lookup table an identifier (IdA) of the agent associated with the geographic area's identifier, and transmits a request comprising the agent's identifier (IdA) to the call center's server (SCA) in order to retrieve from a lookup table the identifier of the agent's status data (DonA) associated with the agent's identifier (IdA), then provides the agent's status to the monitor through graphical display based on the agent's retrieved status data (DonA). | 09-26-2013 |
20140079207 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC ELASTICITY OF CONTACT CENTER RESOURCES - A system and method for dynamically scaling up or down, resources of a contact center tenant, based on detected or predicted demands on the contact center tenant. A processor monitors and collects contact center operation data. The processor detects, in response to the monitoring, a condition relating to the operation of the contact center. The processor dynamically adjusts at least one hardware or software resource for the contact center based on the detected condition. Health of a particular deployment may also be monitored to learn over time which deployments are healthy for which conditions. If a current deployment is deemed to be unhealthy, the processor may take action to move the contact center to a healthy state. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONTIORING HEALTH OF DEPLOYMENT STATES FOR A CONTACT CENTER - A system and method for monitoring deployment states of a contact center. A processor migrates a state of the contact center from a first deployment state to a second deployment state. The processor records the steps in migrating from the first deployment state to the second deployment state, and stores the recorded steps in association with metadata describing the second deployment state. The processor monitors health of the second state, and takes an action for moving the state of the contact center to a healthy state in response to determining that the second deployment state is unhealthy. The migrating may be based on detecting a condition relating to operation of the contact center. The processor dynamically adjusts at least one hardware or software resource for the contact center based on the detected condition for migrating the state of the contact center from the first to the second deployment state. | 03-27-2014 |
20140098948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CHAT TESTING - A system for flexible and scalable automated chat-based contact center testing, comprising a test case management platform, “chat cruncher”, contact center manager, chat classifier, and desktop automation engine, and method for using such a system for automated testing of a contact center's chat-based interactions environment and reporting of test results. | 04-10-2014 |
20140126712 | TELEPHONIC TELESERVICES MANAGEMENT - A system and method to provide telephonic teleservices management is provided. The system may comprise a session management module used to establish a session with an agent via a telephone of the agent. An agent management module may manage a work state of the agent within a plurality of sequential calls between the agent and a plurality of customers. During the session, the connection with the agent remains established between each of the sequential calls. A hub management module manages a call hub during a call of the plurality of sequential calls between the agent and a customer of the plurality of customers. | 05-08-2014 |
20140140494 | DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATION OF ROUTING RULES FOR CONTACT CENTER USE - A machine learning system and method for contact center use. Activities associated with a plurality of contact centers are monitored and a knowledge base is updated based on the monitored activities. An outcome for a particular contact center may be predicted based on monitored interactions for the particular contact center, and based on information in the knowledge base. An output is then generated based on the predicted outcome. | 05-22-2014 |
20140169547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SEARCHABLE CUSTOMER CALL INDEXES - A system and method is provided for providing searchable customer call indexes. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a system may receive call information associated with telephone conversations between callers and a vendor, the call information including an audio recording or transcript for each telephone conversation. The system may also identify one or more keywords from the audio recordings or transcripts and index the call information into one or more indexes based on the identified keywords. Finally, the system may determine search results responsive to a search query based on the indexing. In some embodiments, changes to customer service may be identified based on the search results. | 06-19-2014 |
20140211931 | System and Method for Generating and Delivering Automated Reports Concerning the Performance of a Call Center - Transformation of binary data files created by a data logger of a telephone system used by a call center into a searchable form for generation of meaningful management reports concerning the operation and performance of a call center, its agents and equipment is accomplished by providing a report server which u, under software control, processes the data in the log file to complete fields of tables in a database. The database is then used to create and deliver management reports both automatically and in response to queries entered by supervisors. | 07-31-2014 |
20140219437 | Interaction Management - A company/organization is enabled to optimize sessions from an agent's perspective across multiple channels. Actions may be performed, such as monitoring the journey of a user across a self service application, raising alerts to the agent based on the journey, selecting an appropriate agent to whom a session may be routed, raising alerts for a supervisor, enabling the supervisor to track sessions and intervene if required, enable the agent to run commands from an interaction window, push links to launch applications to supplement the primary interaction through appropriate mechanisms, show appropriate responses to the agent on analyzing the session, and providing shortcut keys for the agent to allow the agent to insert appropriate responses into a chat session. Analysis is provided for the sessions, data is extracted from the sessions, and appropriate forms are populated with the data from the session and with agent information. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233719 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MONITORING AND VISUALIZING CONTACT CENTER ROUTING STRATEGIES - A system and method for monitoring and visualizing contact center routing strategies via a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface displays a routing diagram depicting a contact center routing strategy. The routing diagram includes a plurality of blocks each associated with logic for managing an interaction with the contact center. A processor monitors contact center performance as interactions with the contact center are managed according to the routing strategy. The processor identifies one of the plurality of blocks affected by the contact center performance, and further identifies a threshold associated with the identified block. The processor determines whether the contact center performance satisfies the threshold, and modifies a visual appearance of the identified block based on the determination. | 08-21-2014 |
20140247936 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING REPORTING DATA ON A HOSTED ON-DEMAND REPORTING SYSTEM - An information managing system for managing contact center information is disclosed. The information managing system includes a plurality of receivers for receiving information from at least one data collector. The information managing system further includes a plurality of databases for storing the information received from the at least one data collector. The information managing system further includes a report generator comprising a user interface for receiving a plurality of search queries from a plurality of users. The information managing system further includes a database interface layer for performing one or more lookups on the plurality of databases based on the plurality of search queries received from the plurality of users, wherein results of the one or more lookups are displayed on the user interface of the report generator. | 09-04-2014 |
20140254786 | REPORTING ON CALL CENTER DATA ACROSS MULTIPLE CONCURRENT ACTIVITY SOURCES - Aspects are directed towards methods including creating multiple states from at least two call center data sources; and combining at least two of the multiple states to obtain a data model, where the data model comprises an attribute related to the call center, and methods including collecting a set of call data from multiple sources, where the multiple sources comprise a management module source and at least one source not controlled by the management module, and analyzing the set of call data. | 09-11-2014 |
20140270135 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Efficiently Facilitating Appointments Within A Call Center Via An Automatic Call Distributor - A computer-implemented system and method for facilitating appointments within a call center is provided. A list of agents within a call center is received from a user. Each agent is associated with a call queue and handles incoming customer calls to the call queue. An availability of each of the agents on the list is determined. One of the agents is selected as a most available agent. The user is provided with records for the most available agent and is automatically connected with the most available agent. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270136 | ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING - The present disclosure is directed to methods for determining an adaptive threshold, including specifying a variable, where the variable comprises a real-time state of a contact center; specifying a threshold, where the threshold is related to the variable; monitoring the variable; and adjusting the threshold in relation to a change in the variable. | 09-18-2014 |
20140294169 | LOW LATENCY DISTRIBUTED AGGREGATION FOR CONTACT CENTER AGENT-GROUPS ON SLIDING INTERVAL - A method and system for aggregating and reporting data from a plurality of data sources in a contact center is provided. The method includes: maintaining by a computer device the data for a sliding interval including a plurality of panes, the data including an ongoing component for ongoing events and a completed component for completed events; updating by the computer device the data for the sliding interval based on updates for the sliding interval received from one or more of the data sources; and reporting by the computer device an aggregation of the ongoing and completed components of the data sources for the sliding interval to a client in accordance with an expiring of one of the panes. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory physical medium. The medium has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to execute the method. | 10-02-2014 |
20140307862 | DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AGENT STATUS IN A COMMUNICATION CENTER - An agent presence application for monitoring target agent resources and rendering agent states to subscribing applications is provided. The presence application has at least one first portion for collecting data regarding states of activity of the target agent resources, and at least one second portion for integrating the data and rendering the agent states to the subscribing applications. | 10-16-2014 |
20140376707 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTACT CENTER MANAGEMENT - A system, method, and computer program product for customer contact management via voice, chat, e-mail and social network contacts includes a balanced service process (BSP) that includes a plurality of cause or response codes for maximizing first contact resolution (FCR) and CSAT. The BSP is incorporated within a contact center (single center, multiple centers and/or work at home), which receives voice calls, SMS messages, email, chat, or social media communications from customers. The BSP in real-time determines dispositions of such contacts, monitors and manages the performance of individual resolvers. | 12-25-2014 |
20150092936 | REQUEST PROCESS OPTIMIZATION AND MANAGEMENT - A method of optimizing and managing processes for responding to requests (such as claims for benefits, or insurance applications) includes creating a process definition, performing an optimization of a resource employed for the process, and developing recommendations for process design or execution based on the simulation and optimization. In some cases, the resource being optimized is staffing. In some cases, the requests relate to acquisition of health insurance or governmental program services (for example, health insurance exchanges, benefit eligibility, Medicaid enrollment). The optimization may be non-deterministic and consider uncertainty factors. In some cases, a staffing level is estimated based on the optimization. | 04-02-2015 |
20150117629 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HEALTH OF DEPLOYMENT STATES FOR A CONTACT CENTER - A system and method for monitoring deployment states of a contact center. A processor migrates a state of the contact center from a first deployment state to a second deployment state. The processor records the steps in migrating from the first deployment state to the second deployment state, and stores the recorded steps in association with metadata describing the second deployment state. The processor monitors health of the second state, and takes an action for moving the state of the contact center to a healthy state in response to determining that the second deployment state is unhealthy. The migrating may be based on detecting a condition relating to operation of the contact center. The processor dynamically adjusts at least one hardware or software resource for the contact center based on the detected condition for migrating the state of the contact center from the first to the second deployment state. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124952 | DETERMINING MOST EFFECTIVE CALL PARAMETERS AND PRESENTING TO REPRESENTATIVE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for determining most effective call parameters for a representative-customer interaction for a representative working to recover payment in arrears. Embodiments of the invention retrieve call history data and date of payment data; correlate the call history data and the payment data; determine success information based on the correlation of call history data and payment data; and present the success information to the representative for improving likelihood of future success. Other embodiments retrieve call history data and determine best time and/or channel for contacting the customer in order to achieve customer contact. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131792 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESKTOP DATA RECORDING FOR CUSTOMER AGENT INTERACTIONS - Methods and systems for data recording for customer-agent interactions are described. The described system may include a Desktop Data Recording Client (“DDRC”), which is an application or other module installed on an agent's computing system or device that collects and records various data types from a computer desktop and telephone during a phone or electronic interaction with a third party, such as a customer. The DDRC can be configured to stop and restart data collection and recording of sensitive data for security purposes to ensure that this type of data is not stored or retrievable. The specific data types that may be collected and recorded include: voice recording, computing device screen capture, desktop data collection at a summary and/or detailed level and in call-based on continuous modes, and recording start/stop indications. | 05-14-2015 |
20150146867 | System And Method For Determining Customer Hold Times - A system and method for determining customer hold times is provided. A database of caller profiles is maintained. A call from a caller is received into a call center and assigned to an agent. A delay during which the caller is to be placed on hold is identified. A hold time for the delay is determined based on a length of a hold queue, a level of busyness of the agent and the caller profile associated with the caller. | 05-28-2015 |
20150334233 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING OCCUPANCY OF RESOURCES IN A MULTIMODAL CONTACT CENTER - A method and system for determining occupancy of an agent in a multimodal contact center are provided. The method includes monitoring, by a processor, a plurality of multimodal contacts simultaneously handled by an agent. For each contact of the plurality of multimodal contacts, a media capability of a contact may be determined and one or more parameters based on the media capability and the agent may be determined. A multimodal occupancy score for the agent based on the one or more parameters for each of the plurality of multimodal contacts. | 11-19-2015 |
20150350431 | MECHANISM FOR CREATION AND UTILIZATION OF AN ATTRIBUTE TREE IN A CONTACT CENTER - A graph database is described for use in connection with a contact center. The graph database includes a plurality of nodes and relationships that describe the operations, entities, personnel, and attributes in the contact center. Also included in the graph database is an attribute tree that enables a work assignment engine in the contact center to make proximity-based work assignment decisions. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350432 | MECHANISM FOR AVOIDANCE IN A GRAPH BASED CONTACT CENTER - A mechanism for avoidance of one or more resources for work assignment based on nodes and relationships within an attribute tree of a graph based contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. Avoidance methods are disclosed that allow an administrator to set up a graph database operable to automatically block work assignment to certain resources based on set rules and conditions. The graph database is additionally designed as a learning system that can adapt and respond to changing rules and conditions over time, including historically successful and unsuccessful interactions, attribute changes for customers and agents, and changes in desired results. Agent matching and customer satisfaction are improved with the avoidance of inappropriate or undesirable resources. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350433 | MECHANISM FOR ADAPTIVE MODIFICATION OF AN ATTRIBUTE TREE IN GRAPH BASED CONTACT CENTERS - A mechanism for adaptive modification of an attribute tree in a graph based contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. Adaptive modification methods are disclosed that allow a graph database to automatically remove and create categories as well as block removal of categories with active relationships. Staff assignment, administrator productivity, and customer service are improved with the assessment, merging, and removal of atrophied categories and the operationally desirable expansion and/or addition of categories. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BRIDGING ONLINE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE - A system and method for aggregating a customer's anonymous online experience and associating it to the customer once the customer is known. A server monitors and aggregates data on anonymous interactions between a customer and a website. The collected data is stored in a data store in association with a code. The server detects occurrence of a trigger event as the data is collected, and the code is provided to the customer in response to detecting the trigger event. When the customer presents the code at the retail store, a retail store device sends a message including the code to the server. The retail store device also provides other identification information of the customer. The server may then associate the anonymous data to customer based on the identification information. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350437 | FLOW DESIGNER FOR CONTACT CENTERS - In a system for managing an interaction flow for a contact center, the system includes: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory has stored thereon, instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: display on a graphical display, an interaction flow canvas and an interaction block selection tool; receive a user input to add a first interaction block to the interaction flow canvas; generate a first interaction instruction corresponding to the first interaction block; and receive a user input to add a second interaction block to the interaction flow canvas, wherein the first interaction instruction comprises an instruction for proceeding to the second interaction block after a criterion of the first interaction block is satisfied. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365531 | DISTRIBUTED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AGENT STATUS IN A COMMUNICATION CENTER - An agent presence application for monitoring target agent resources and rendering agent states to subscribing applications is provided. The presence application has at least one first portion for collecting data regarding states of activity of the target agent resources, and at least one second portion for integrating the data and rendering the agent states to the subscribing applications. | 12-17-2015 |
20160044170 | PROCESSING CALL CENTER DATA - For processing call center data, an access module ( | 02-11-2016 |
20160065738 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE SELF-SERVICE EXPERIENCE AND OPTIMIZE CONTACT CENTER RESOURCES - System and method to improve self-service operation in a contact center, the method including: monitoring progress of a self-service customer support session for a customer of the contact center; monitoring surplus status of agents in the contact center; determining a system state related to the customer by use of the monitored progress and the monitored surplus status; setting an indicator signal to a first state if the system state is in an agent-support domain, otherwise setting the indicator signal to a second state if the system state is in an self-support domain; and assigning the customer to an agent-supported session if the indicator signal is in the first state. | 03-03-2016 |
20160105560 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS CAMPAIGNS - A web-based solution through which business entities create and manage communications campaigns, such as campaigns that afford target recipients an opportunity to be connected to a third party call center. A web interface is provided to enable a business entity customer to create a set of one or more rules that, when triggered during the campaign, cause the solution to take certain control actions in real-time, based on campaign performance. Preferably, this campaign performance is measured indirectly, i.e. without requiring a direct connection to an on-premises call center ACD. The interface provides the business entity customer with a convenient and easy-to-use display that identifies any rule that has been (or may be getting ready to be) triggered, together with a then current status of the campaign. The system takes a control action (e.g., campaign suspension, adjusting an outbound call rate, or the like) when a customer-configurable rule is triggered. | 04-14-2016 |
20160127553 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCES OF AN ENTERPRISE - A resource managing computer system for managing at least one resource in an enterprise is disclosed. The resource managing computer system includes a communication interface for establishing at least one web based chat communication session with at least one customer. The system further includes a monitoring module for monitoring one or more parameters associated with the at least one web based chat communication session. The system further includes a computing module for computing at least one confidence score based on the one or more monitored parameters of the at least one web based chat communication session. The system further includes an allocation module for allocating the at least one resource to the at least one web based chat communication session, wherein the allocation is performed based on the at least one computed confidence score. | 05-05-2016 |
20160155080 | Apparatus And Method For Call Center Service Level Prediction And Action | 06-02-2016 |
20160173690 | SPECTRAL DIAGNOSTIC ENGINE FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT CALL CENTER | 06-16-2016 |
20160173692 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING STAFFING REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFERRED WORK IN A CONTACT CENTER ENVIRONMENT | 06-16-2016 |
20160173694 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCE SELECTION IN AN ENTERPRISE | 06-16-2016 |