Working-time-based routing for customer support

Patent №

US 11,830,010

Granted

2023-11-28

Filed 2020

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

2

kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16737845

Techniques performed by a data processing system for matching a customer service ambassador (CSA) with a customer include receiving a service request for technical assistance from the customer, analyzing estimated working hours information for the customer and estimated working hours information for each of the plurality of CSAs to produce a compatibility score for each CSA, the compatibility score for a respective one of the CSAs providing an indication of how closely the working hours of the customer and of the respective one of the CSAs align, reordering an available CSA queue identifying the plurality of CSAs based on the compatibility scores of each of the CSAs, and selecting a CSA from the queue to provide technical assistance to the customer.

Knowledge representationPlanningG06Q 10/00G06Q 30/016G06Q 10/06316G06Q 10/1091

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.72
AI hardware0.02
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 514560610

Assignors

WU, CHENG, AVILA, DEAN, CALLEWAERT, FRANCOIS, MANCHANDA, SUMIT, MASROOR HUSSAIN, SYED

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

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