摘要:
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for queuing calls to a multilocation service provider having a plurality of automatic call distributors (ACDs). If all circuits to the ACDs are unavailable, a call is queued in one of a plurality of queues. One or more of these queues will allow call completion to any ACD of the service provider as soon as an agent of that ACD becomes available. Advantageously, the average waiting time for customers to that service provider is reduced, thereby improving service. In accordance with one feature of the system, the caller can select one of a plurality of choices of music on hold as offered by the service provider.
摘要:
A subscriber-defined call processing program designed for execution in a communications network is subjected to testing procedures which simulate a call processing environment involving the execution of the program. The testing procedures assess the program's fitness for execution in a communications network and compute threshold values of network resource consumption by calls invoking execution of the program so that those calls can be terminated when those threshold values are exceeded in the course of processing those calls in the communications network.
摘要:
A subscriber-defined call processing program designed for execution in a communications network is subjected to testing procedures which simulate a call processing environment involving the execution of the program. The testing procedures assess the program's fitness for execution in a communications network and compute threshold values of network resource consumption by calls invoking execution of the program so that those calls can be terminated when those threshold values are exceeded in the course of processing those calls in the communications network.
摘要:
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for queuing calls to a multilocation service provider having a plurality of automatic call distributors (ACDs). If all circuits to the ACDs are unavailable, a call is queued in one of a plurality of queues. One or more of these queues will allow call completion to any ACD of the service provider as soon as an agent of that ACD becomes available. Advantageously, the average waiting time for customers to that service provider is reduced, thereby improving service. In accordance with one feature of the system, the caller can select one of a plurality of choices of music on hold as offered by the service provider.