TELEPHONE CALL PROCESSING IN AN INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE CALL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Patent №

US 7,065,201

Granted

2006-06-20

Filed 2001

Owner

SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09917746

The present invention relates to a customer call routing menu employing an interactive voice response system (IVR) to process a call in a customer service center. The menu messages are provided in terms of customer tasks to be performed, rather than in terms of corporate units. Further, the menu messages are arranged and played to the caller in the order of the most frequently requested tasks and include terminology commonly used by customers.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Knowledge representation0.17
AI hardware0.04
Machine learning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC.

assignment · 123110872

SBC SERVICES, INC.

assignment · 123110872

PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE

assignment · 123110872

Assignors

BUSHEY, ROBERT R., BOWEN, YANIRA MARBELLA, LAWRENCE, RUTH ELAINE, MARTIN, JOHN MILLS, QUACKENBUSH, DENISE C., SIMON, RACHEL BETH

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

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