METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MANAGING CONCURRENT COMMUNICATIONS IN A NETWORKED CALL CENTER

Patent №

US 11,736,615

Granted

2023-08-22

Filed 2021

Owner

TALKDESK, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17314783

A method and apparatus for scheduling agents in a call center to meet predefined service levels, wherein communications are associated with queues representing categories of communications, the queues including at least one concurrent queue of concurrent communications, wherein multiple concurrent communications can be handled concurrently by a single agent. The method includes executing a simulation to determine an effectiveness of plural agents. The simulation includes computing a skill group weighting (SGW) for each agent for at least one concurrent queue and at least one interval based on:

PlanningEvolutionary computationG06Q 10/063116H04M 3/5233G06F 17/11G06Q 10/063112G06Q 10/063114G06Q 10/063118G06Q 10/06315G06Q 10/107+5 more

AI classification

Planning1.00
Evolutionary computation0.82
Knowledge representation0.04
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.01
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

TALKDESK, INC.

assignment · 565270800

Assignors

STEPANOV, GENNADIY, VALERIANO, FILIPE, LAPA, PAULO, TACON, HEMERSON

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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