Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100165887 | Trust conferencing apparatus and methods in digital communication - A conferencing application executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable medium, the computerized appliance coupled to one or more networks is provided, the application including functionality for responding to requests to join a conference, and for enabling requesters as participants, functionality for receiving and rendering text, voice or video data from each registered participant as text, voice or video data to be transmitted to individual ones of other participants, functionality for controlling which received text, voice or video data is transmitted to which participants, and functionality for receiving and executing instructions from a trust authority. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169499 | Trust in Physical Networks - A trust network has at least one transmission medium supporting transmission of data, wherein data transmitted is in at least some instances transmitted in discrete portions, two or more nodes terminating discrete legs in the transmission medium, and trust software executing from a machine-readable medium by a processor on one or more of the two or more nodes. The one or more nodes executing trust software apply trust logic to transmission of the discrete data portions. | 07-01-2010 |
20100310056 | Customer-Controlled Recording - A recording system has an interface enabled to monitor interaction between an agent of an enterprise and a second person, recording apparatus enabled to record the interaction and to store the recording in a data repository, and software stored in and executing from a machine-readable medium, the software providing functions for controlling the recording apparatus. The software responds to inputs from the second person to control the recording apparatus. | 12-09-2010 |
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20090168989 | Customer-Enabled Evaluation and and Control of Communication Center Agent Contact - A communication center has agents operating at workstations and enabled to interact with customers, a router for routing incoming transactions from customers to agents, and routing rule sets associated with specific customers. Individual ones of the rule sets include one or more contact constraints set by the customer associated with the rule set. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171668 | Recursive Adaptive Interaction Management System - A management system for guiding an agent in a media-specific dialogue has a conversion engine for instantiating ongoing dialogue as machine-readable text, if the dialogue is in voice media, a context analysis engine for determining facts from the text, a rules engine for asserting rules based on fact input, and a presentation engine for presenting information to the agent to guide the agent in the dialogue. The context analysis engine passes determined facts to the rules engine, which selects and asserts to the presentation engine rules based on the facts, and the presentation engine provides periodically updated guidance to the agent based on the rules asserted. | 07-02-2009 |
20090171752 | Method for Predictive Routing of Incoming Transactions Within a Communication Center According to Potential Profit Analysis - A transaction routing method in a contact center has steps for (a) identifying an initiator of a received transaction; (b) gathering information about the initiator of the transaction; (c) determining agents available to receive and service the transaction, and gathering information about the agents; (d) using the gathered information, determining a product or promotion; (e) forming combinations among the available agents, the initiator, and the products; (f) determining potential profit contribution or probability for individual ones of the combinations formed in step (e); and (g) selecting an agent to service the transaction based on the potential profitability determined in step (f). | 07-02-2009 |
20100169265 | Scoring Persons and Files for Trust in Digital Communication - A method, using trust software executing from a machine-readable medium on a computerized appliance operating as a trust authority, to assign to a person, a file, or an enterprise an indication of trustworthiness, includes steps of (a) assembling information concerning the person, file, or enterprise; (b) applying trust logic to the information assembled for individual ones of the persons, files or enterprises to assign a trust score; and (c) storing the score associated with at least an identity of the person, file or enterprise. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169430 | Trust -Interactive Communication Applications - A communication software module executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable medium includes functionality enabling a user to direct a communication event to a particular destination by an address of the destination, functionality for transmitting the destination address to a remote trust authority, functionality for initiating the communication event, and functionality for receiving trust information from the remote trust authority, the trust information associated with an enterprise or a person associated with the destination address. Various communication modules are provided, such as email clients, instant messaging systems, chat systems, and voice communication systems. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169641 | Trust Authority Supporting Digital Communication - A trust authority includes a network connected server executing trust service software stored in a machine-readable medium, one or more network ports for communicating on the network, and a data repository coupled to the server, the repository storing indications of trustworthiness for one or both of enterprises and agents of enterprises. Queries from remote entities, the queries pertaining to one or both of enterprises and agents, are received at the server, and the trust service software, in response to the queries, provides to the remote entities providing the queries indications of trustworthiness for the one or both of enterprises and agents. | 07-01-2010 |
20130114801 | CUSTOMER-CONTROLLED RECORDING - A call-recording and retrieval system operates from a computerized server in a contact-center, the server executing software from a machine-readable medium. There is a data repository coupled to the computerized server, and an interface at the server enabled to monitor voice interaction between an agent of the contact center and a customer. The server is enabled to follow one or both of direct input from the customer in a monitored interaction and stored rules associated with the customer to record and playback voice interaction between the agent and the customer. | 05-09-2013 |
20130145432 | TRUST CONFERENCING APPARATUS AND METHODS IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION - A conferencing application executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable medium, the computerized appliance coupled to one or more networks is provided, the application including functionality for responding to requests to join a conference, and for enabling requesters as participants, functionality for receiving and rendering text, voice or video data from each registered participant as text, voice or video data to be transmitted to individual ones of other participants, functionality for controlling which received text, voice or video data is transmitted to which participants, and functionality for receiving and executing instructions from a trust authority. | 06-06-2013 |
20140254789 | CUSTOMER-ENABLED EVALUATION AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION CENTER AGENT CONTACT - A communication center has agents operating at workstations and enabled to interact with customers, a router for routing incoming transactions from customers to agents, and routing rule sets associated with specific customers. Individual ones of the rule sets include one or more contact constraints set by the customer associated with the rule set. | 09-11-2014 |
20140341361 | METHOD FOR SELECTING INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE MODES USING HUMAN VOICE DETECTION ANALYSIS - In an interactive voice response system, a method is provided for selective enhancement of voice recognition capability during an interaction. The method includes the acts (a) taking a call and prompting for a voice response from the caller, (b) failing to recognize the response, (c) executing a routine to detect and isolate the captured word or phrase in the response, and (d) attempting to recognize the response a second time. | 11-20-2014 |