SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING COMMUNICATIONS VIA CUSTOMER CONTACT CHANNEL CHANGING SYSTEM USING CALL CENTRE FOR SETTING UP THE CALL BETWEEN CUSTOMER AND AN AVAILABLE HELP AGENT

Patent №

US 5,884,032

Granted

1999-03-16

Filed 1995

Owner

NEW BRUNSWICK TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, THE

+3 more

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · speech · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08532537

This invention (The Customer Contact Channel Changer) enables the integration of different Customer Contact Channels such as live call center ACD (Automatic Call Distribution) agents, ADSI (Analog Display Services Interface) enhanced IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems and WWW (World Wide Web) servers. The world wide web servers are used to allow customers with computer equipment to access information from an organizations databases in a self service mode. Frequently these customers have questions best answered by human ACD agents. With this invention the connection between the customer with the question and the agent with the answer is done quickly and efficiently with both parties sharing screens of common information. Also control is retained by the customer to make the call happen when they want it.

Natural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningH04M 3/5191G06F 16/957H04L 67/02H04M 3/4938H04M 3/51H04M 3/5158H04M 3/5166H04M 7/0027+21 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.96
Speech0.96
Machine learning0.01
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

NEW BRUNSWICK TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, THE

assignment · 78560133

NBTEL GLOBAL INC.

assignment · 110770260

INNOVATIA INC.

assignment · 121530849

BELL ALIANT REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

assignment · 234270834

Assignors

BATEMAN, THOMAS HOWARD, KIERSTEAD, BRUCE EDWARD, NOBLE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (SANDY), CURRY, TIMOTHY LEE, LOCKETT, JOHN ALAN, MERSEREAU, LAURIE EDWARD, OUELLETTE, ROBERT JAMES

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

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