Abstract:
Obtaining customer feedback is an important tool for a contact center to determine their performance as viewed from those with whom they interact. Customers interacting with an agent over a voice or other channel (e.g., co-browse, text chat, video, etc.) may provide real-time feedback. This real-time feedback may be transmitted to the contact center via a data channel and then utilized to alert a supervisor, trigger the transfer of the call to another agent, training purposes, or other activity. Furthermore, customers' real-time feedback is, “in the moment,” enabling a portion of the agent-customer interaction to be associated with a particular user's feedback input, rather than limiting feedback to a user's patience and memory to evaluate the entire feedback after the interaction has concluded.
Abstract:
A contact center, communication system, and server are disclosed. An illustrative contact center is disclosed as being a multichannel contact center. A customer of the illustrative multichannel contact center is allowed to switch their engagement with the contact center from using a first media type to using a second media type. Upon making such a switch of engagement, the customer may be provided with information regarding resources in the contact center, statistics/metrics of those resources, the ability to provide real-time feedback regarding the engagement, and possibly the ability to select a resource from among a plurality of resources. In this way, the customer may be incentivized to switch their method of engagement to a benefit of both the contact center and the customer.
Abstract:
Equivalence classes are used to determine how groups of call participants are distributed among remotely situated conference rooms. A roster of conference call participants is distributed for display by communication devices the participants bring to a conference room. The distributed roster contains at least one indicium by which the possession of an attribute, by any conference call participant in a room can be confirmed by other conference call participant(s) using a communication device. After entering a room, at least some participants use a communication device to access the roster and indicate, to a server, that at least one other participant on the roster possesses an attribute of significance to conduct of the call. Participants are assigned to groups and the groups are merged based on the presence of participants possessing an attribute or set of linked attributes. The server assigns the participants to respective groups for selective treatment.
Abstract:
Conferences are a popular way to hold meetings and presentations when the participants are not required to be physically together. However, the quality of a conference can vary based on a particular user's endpoint configuration, connection, network, conference content, and other factors. Providing a user with the ability to indicate a quality issue, as determined by the user, allows other users and systems to become aware that a user is experiencing quality issues and optionally take action to correct the issue.
Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for dynamically guiding a user to a target conversation area with a communication device. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a call request to establish a call with a communication device and determining a location of the communication device. The method further provides determining a target conversation area for a user of the communication device to participate in the call based on the location of the communication device. The method also provides directing the user to the target conversation area.
Abstract:
A communication session is established with a contact center. The communication session includes a first concurrent communication session in a first communication medium and a second concurrent communication session in a second communication medium. The first communication medium and the second communication medium are different communication mediums. For example, the first concurrent communication session may be a voice communication session with a user and the second concurrent communication session may be multimedia communication session with the user. A task is identified that needs to be accomplished in the communication session (e.g., in one of first or second concurrent communication sessions). A determination is made if the first communication medium is an optimal communication medium for the task. In response to determining that the first communication medium is the optimal communication medium for the task, the first task is implemented in the first concurrent communication session.
Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods and systems for providing presentation delay feedback to a presenter in a web conferencing session. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a presenter client, a request to initiate a web conferencing session. The method further includes establishing the web conferencing session between the presenter client and at least one viewing client. During the web conferencing session, the method includes determining delays in presenting a view of the web conferencing session at each of the at least one viewing clients and providing an indication of the delays to a user at the presenter client.
Abstract:
Method for scheduling and implementing an electronic meeting conducted among remotely-located users communicating with an agenda server, including: accepting a meeting agenda that includes a plurality of topics, a quorum, an identification of resources used by each topic, an identification of data used by each topic, and an identification of data produced by each topic; partitioning the meeting agenda into at least a first and second group of topics; searching for data dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; searching for resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics; if data dependencies or resource dependencies are found between the first and second groups of topics, then repartitioning the meeting agenda until the data dependencies and resource dependencies between the first and second groups of topics are reduced below a predetermined dependency threshold; and concurrently scheduling and executing the first and second groups of topics.
Abstract:
Authentication of a user initiating a communication may be achieved using a visual indicator of the user. Initiation of a communication may result in the initiator of the communication collecting image data associated with the initiator's identity. Additionally, the initiator may be required to perform a task, wherein a response to the task may be transmitted with the image data to the receiver of the communication. The receipt of the image data may allow a receiver of the communication to reduce spam and verify that the initiator is who it purports to be.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is related to a meeting scheduling system that can apply an enterprise rule to determine one or more requirements for a scheduled meeting.