SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALL ROUTING AND ENABLING INTERACTION BETWEEN CALLERS WITH CALLS POSITIONED IN A QUEUE

Patent №

US 8,325,907

Granted

2012-12-04

Filed 2008

Owner

WALKER DIGITAL, LLC

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12210424

Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for processing telephone calls from a plurality of customers directed to a call center. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a telephone call at a call center from a first customer, determining that all agents of the call center are unavailable, placing the telephone call in a queue, obtaining first customer information, and matching the first customer information to second customer information associated with an ongoing communication between a second customer and an agent. The first customer is then offered an opportunity to monitor the ongoing communication, and in some embodiments is connected to the ongoing communication.

Natural languageSpeechPlanningH04M 3/523H04M 3/51H04M 3/5166H04M 3/20H04M 3/2281H04M 3/42221H04M 3/493H04M 3/56+2 more

AI classification

Planning1.00
Speech0.99
Natural language0.62
Knowledge representation0.09
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

WALKER DIGITAL, LLC

assignment · 256060665

Assignors

WALKER, JAY S., JORASCH, JAMES A., TEDESCO, ROBERT C., SPARICO, THOMAS M.

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

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