SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO REDIRECT INCOMING CONTACTS

Patent №

US 8,422,644

Granted

2013-04-16

Filed 2009

Owner

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12551423

Systems and methods are provided for contact channel redirection to improve agent routing/assignment efficiency and customer experience. For example, the system may redirect a customer, waiting in a queue for an agent for telephonic communications, to a chat agent for online chat.

Natural languageSpeechPlanningH04M 3/5191H04M 3/5166H04M 3/523H04M 3/58H04M 2203/4536

AI classification

Planning0.99
Speech0.91
Natural language0.83
Machine learning0.13
AI hardware0.02
Evolutionary computation0.02
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

assignment · 232800900

Assignors

FAN, JAMES, LAM, JENNIFER K., SHARMA, DEVA-DATTA, TOWELL, ERIC

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

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