Direct customer control of a network router
    72.
    发明授权
    Direct customer control of a network router 有权
    直接客户控制网路路由器

    公开(公告)号:US06678371B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-01-13

    申请号:US09504139

    申请日:2000-02-15

    IPC分类号: H04M300

    摘要: An entity of a private communications network (24, 26, 28), such as a controller (70) of an ACD system (24), controls the operation of a network router (30) of a public communications network (12, 14, 16), thereby eliminating the need in a network-routing system to send sensitive event or status information of the private network to the network router. The entity collects and processes locally the status information about the private network, and whenever it detects (704) that the workload balance in the private network needs readjusting, it sends (710) a new routing sequence message to the network router. These messages specify the routing scheme to the network router. A routing sequence message contains a pair (404, 406) of routing sequences. Each is an ordered sequence of destination route points (408). The first establishes a load balance and the second maintains the load balance. The first is executed by the network router once upon receipt, and the second is executed repeatedly in a cycle until a new routing sequence message is received.

    摘要翻译: 私有通信网络(24,26,28)的实体,诸如ACD系统(24)的控制器(70),控制公共通信网络(12,14)的网络路由器(30)的操作, 16),从而消除了网络路由系统向网络路由器发送私有网络的敏感事件或状态信息的需要。 实体在本地收集和处理有关私有网络的状态信息,并且只要检测到(704)专用网络中的工作负载平衡需要重新调整,就向网络路由器发送(710)新的路由序列消息。 这些消息指定到网络路由器的路由方案。 路由序列消息包含一对路由序列(404,406)。 每个是目的地路由点的有序序列(408)。 第一个建立负载平衡,第二个维持负载平衡。 第一个由网络路由器在接收到一次时执行,第二个在一个周期内重复执行,直到接收到新的路由序列消息。

    Workflow-scheduling optimization driven by target completion time
    73.
    发明授权
    Workflow-scheduling optimization driven by target completion time 有权
    目标完成时间驱动的工作流调度优化

    公开(公告)号:US06463346B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-08

    申请号:US09415577

    申请日:1999-10-08

    IPC分类号: G06F1900

    摘要: The flow of work items (40) through a workflow process (50) is optimized by repeatedly reordering (FIG. 3) work items enqueued in inbox queues (21) of workflow process tasks (500) to maximize results according to a given business strategy expressed through target times. Each enqueued work item has an associated in-queue rating (IQR 28) that represents the number of queue positions (23) that the work item can be retarded or needs to be advanced to meet its target time. When a work item enters a queue and whenever a work item changes its queue position, its IQR is computed. An optimization function is then performed (404) on the queue to determine an order of the enqueued work items that optimizes a metric of those work items that may fail to meet their target times. The work items in the queue are then reordered (406) accordingly.

    摘要翻译: 通过工作流过程(50)的工作项目(40)的流程通过在工作流过程任务(500)的收件箱队列(21)中重新排序(图3)工作项目来优化,以根据给定的业务策略来最大化结果 通过目标时间表达。 每个入队的工作项目都具有相关的队列等级(IQR 28),其表示工作项目可以被延迟或需要被提前以满足其目标时间的队列位置数(23)。 当工作项目进入队列时,每当工作项目更改其队列位置时,计算其IQR。 然后在队列上执行优化功能(404)以确定优化可能无法达到其目标时间的那些工作项的度量的入队工作项的顺序。 队列中的工作项随后重新排序(406)。

    Agent skill promotion and demotion based on contact center state
    76.
    发明授权
    Agent skill promotion and demotion based on contact center state 有权
    基于联络中心状态的代理技能提升和降级

    公开(公告)号:US09118765B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-25

    申请号:US13186219

    申请日:2011-07-19

    IPC分类号: H04M3/00 H04M3/523

    CPC分类号: H04M3/5233 H04M2203/403

    摘要: A 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, selectively promote and demote agent skills to respond to various changes in contact center conditions. This enables the contact center to respond to unexpected changes in processing conditions without significantly impacting the overall performance of the contact center.

    摘要翻译: 描述联络中心以及用于施用它的各种方法和机制。 本文提出的联络中心提供了除其他外,有选择地促进和降低代理人技能以应对联络中心条件的各种变化的能力。 这使得联络中心能够响应处理条件的意外变化,而不会显着影响联络中心的整体性能。

    Adjustment of contact routing decisions to reward agent behavior
    77.
    发明授权
    Adjustment of contact routing decisions to reward agent behavior 有权
    联系路由决策的调整以奖励代理行为

    公开(公告)号:US09100480B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-04

    申请号:US13408782

    申请日:2012-02-29

    IPC分类号: H04M3/00 H04M3/51 H04M3/523

    CPC分类号: H04M3/5175 H04M3/5238

    摘要: A 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, reward positive agent behavior and performance by providing the agent with rewards and incentives. The rewards and incentives are provided to the agent by altering one or more aspects of the routing logic in the contact center.

    摘要翻译: 描述联络中心以及用于施用它的各种方法和机制。 本文提出的联络中心提供了通过向代理人提供奖励和激励来奖励积极的代理人行为和表现的能力。 通过改变联络中心中路由逻辑的一个或多个方面,向代理人提供奖励和奖励。

    Multi-tasking relief
    78.
    发明授权
    Multi-tasking relief 有权
    多任务救济

    公开(公告)号:US08699691B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-15

    申请号:US13449955

    申请日:2012-04-18

    IPC分类号: H04M3/00 H04M5/00

    摘要: A 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, determine performance efficiencies/metric associated with one or more multi-tasking agents and provide relief to agents based on rules. This multi-tasking relief may be provided to the one or more agents via reducing an amount of multi-tasking work, inserting breaks into the agent's work flow, and/or directing work items to other resources.

    摘要翻译: 描述联络中心以及用于施用它的各种方法和机制。 本文提出的联络中心提供了除其他之外确定与一个或多个多任务代理相关联的性能效率/度量的能力,并且基于规则向代理提供救济。 可以通过减少多任务工作的数量,将代理人的工作流程插入插入和/或将工作项目引导到其他资源来将该多任务卸载提供给一个或多个代理。

    One-to-one matching in a contact center
    79.
    发明授权
    One-to-one matching in a contact center 有权
    联络中心一对一匹配

    公开(公告)号:US08634543B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-01-21

    申请号:US12882950

    申请日:2010-09-15

    IPC分类号: H04M3/00

    CPC分类号: H04M3/5232 G06Q10/06

    摘要: 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.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一个无责任的联络中心以及用于管理它的各种方法和机制。 本文提出的联络中心提供了除其他外,实现真正的一对一匹配的能力。 还提供了解决方案,用于管理无责任联络中心使用的数据结构。 此外,提出了用于为无状态联络中心生成传统的基于队列的性能视图和度量的机制,以帮助促进从传统的基于队列的联络中心到本文所述的下一代联络中心的平滑过渡。

    View and metrics for a queueless contact center
    80.
    发明授权
    View and metrics for a queueless contact center 有权
    查看和指定一个无责任的联络中心

    公开(公告)号:US08619968B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-12-31

    申请号:US12882986

    申请日:2010-09-15

    IPC分类号: H04M3/00

    CPC分类号: H04M3/5232 G06Q10/06

    摘要: 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.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一个无责任的联络中心以及用于管理它的各种方法和机制。 本文提出的联络中心提供了除其他外,实现真正的一对一匹配的能力。 还提供了解决方案,用于管理无责任联络中心使用的数据结构。 此外,提出了用于为无状态联络中心生成传统的基于队列的性能视图和度量的机制,以帮助促进从传统的基于队列的联络中心到本文所述的下一代联络中心的平滑过渡。