METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING CUSTOMER SERVICE ACROSS MULTIPLE CHANNELS

Patent №

US 8,565,411

Granted

2013-10-22

Filed 2010

Owner

24/7 CUSTOMER, INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12973630

A method and apparatus for a computer-implemented technique for maximizing customer satisfaction and first call resolution, including converting telephone calls into online chats, while minimizing cost is provided. Techniques for incorporating analytics as applied to customer data into particular strategies for call deflection, targeting particular individuals to increase chat acceptance rate, and computing a customer's wait time are also provided.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationPlanningEvolutionary computationH04L 65/403H04L 12/1827H04L 51/04H04M 3/5166H04M 3/5191H04L 12/1822H04M 7/003

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning0.99
Evolutionary computation0.87
Machine learning0.85
Knowledge representation0.73
AI hardware0.06
Speech0.04
Vision0.00

Ownership

24/7 CUSTOMER, INC.

assignment · 271530320

Assignors

KANNAN, PALLIPURAM V., VIJAYARAGHAVAN, RAVI

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

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