Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080222240 | Method and Apparatus for Extended Management of State and Interaction of a Remote Knowledge Worker from a Contact Center - A network system for managing remote agents of a communication center includes a primary server connected to the network the primary server controlling at least one routing point; one or more secondary servers distributed on the network and accessible to the remote agents, the secondary server or servers having data access to agent computing platforms and communication peripherals; and, a software suite distributed in part to the secondary server or servers and distributed in part to one or more agents computing platforms and peripherals, the software suite including protocol for reporting agent status data. The system monitors agents computing platforms and peripherals for activity state through the one or more secondary servers whereupon the one or more secondary servers exchange control messaging and event related data using ISCC protocols with the primary server over the network for intelligent routing purposes. | 09-11-2008 |
20090168990 | System for Facilitating Loosely Configured Service Worker Groups in a Dynamic Call Center Environment - A system for soliciting and activating one or more groups of workers to service contact center business includes an interface accessible to the one or more groups for accepting group registration data, publishing contact center business and for enabling the groups to subscribe to receive business; a data repository for storing the registration data for subscribing groups; and a routing server for specifying routing strategies for event routing to the groups. The system is characterized in that the one or more groups of workers may be activated during contact center business activity to perform services based on need. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172776 | Method and System for Establishing and Managing Trust Metrics for Service Providers in a Federated Service Provider Network - A system for issuing, validating, and managing trust between two or more entities authenticated to operate in a federated network includes one or more servers for issuing trust certificates based on one or more trust metrics, and one or more servers for validating issued trust certificates. Entities operating through a communications interface may be issued trust certificates pursuant to evaluation relative to certain trust metrics, the certificates accompanying communications between entities the certificates subject to validation at communication end points of interaction. | 07-02-2009 |
20100162101 | Method for Dynamically Converting Voice XML Scripts into other Compatible Markup Language Scripts Based on Required Modality - In a contact center, a routing interface for enabling redirection of interactions from one scripted resource type to another includes a language transformation engine executable from a browser application resident on a digital medium installed on or accessible to a computing appliance, and an interactive panel accessible through the browser application the panel containing selectable modality options. The language transformation engine has network access to a language server, and a routing strategy server, and wherein VXML scripts downloaded to the browser are transformed into scripts expressed in another markup language for presentation and wherein the transformed scripts are used at an end resource that the interaction is redirected to. | 06-24-2010 |
20110182418 | Method for Implementing and Executing Communication Center Routing Strategies Represented in Extensible Markup Language - A method is provided for supplementing existing interaction routines in a contact center with added capability including acts for (a) creating at least one rule having at least one rule attribute; (b) creating one or more processes, the processes integral to the rule; (c) defining the at least one rule and integral processes as a strategy; and (d) linking the strategy to the interaction routine, the link serving to cause execution of the strategy during an interaction between an entity and the routine, execution thereof promoting further interaction defined in the strategy. | 07-28-2011 |
20120084751 | Automated Call Center Software Build Generator - A call center (CC) generator includes generator software (GSW) executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable physical medium, an input interface for receiving a CC configuration, access to a data repository storing CC software components, a function relating configuration parameters to individual ones of the stored CC software components, and an output interface for delivering a CC SW suite. The CC generator, executing the GSW, considers the CC configuration, applies the relating function, selects CC software components to copy from the data repository, and builds the CC SW suite for output. | 04-05-2012 |
20140072115 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF CONTACT CENTERS VIA TEMPLATES - A system and method for configuring routing logic for a contact center is provided. A plurality of routing templates is displayed for user selection. Each of the routing templates is associated with metadata defining one or more parameters of the corresponding routing template. A contact center administrator selects one of the displayed templates and further identifies an entry point to the contact center to which the selected routing template applies. The parameters defined for the selected template are displayed for prompting user input. The administrator provides input values for the displayed parameters. The user input values are saved in association with the corresponding parameters and further in association with the identified entry point. The saved user input values are then retrieved for routing a particular interaction arriving at the entry point. | 03-13-2014 |
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 |
20140205078 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING LOOSELY CONFIGURED SERVICE WORKER GROUPS IN A DYNAMIC CALL CENTER ENVIRONMENT - A system for soliciting and activating one or more groups of workers to service contact center business includes an interface accessible to the one or more groups for accepting group registration data, publishing contact center business and for enabling the groups to subscribe to receive business; a data repository for storing the registration data for subscribing groups; and a routing server for specifying routing strategies for event routing to the groups. The system is characterized in that the one or more groups of workers may be activated during contact center business activity to perform services based on need. | 07-24-2014 |
20140376708 | Method and Apparatus for Extended Management of State and Interaction of a Remote Knowledge Worker from a Contact Center - A network system for managing remote agents of a communication center includes a primary server connected to the network the primary server controlling at least one routing point; one or more secondary servers distributed on the network and accessible to the remote agents, the secondary server or servers having data access to agent computing platforms and communication peripherals; and, a software suite distributed in part to the secondary server or servers and distributed in part to one or more agents computing platforms and peripherals, the software suite including protocol for reporting agent status data. The system monitors agents computing platforms and peripherals for activity state through the one or more secondary servers whereupon the one or more secondary servers exchange control messaging and event related data using ISCC protocols with the primary server over the network for intelligent routing purposes. | 12-25-2014 |