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Remote agent capture and monitoring

  • US 10,244,209 B1
  • Filed: 08/31/2016
  • Issued: 03/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for monitoring a remote agent, comprising:

  • receiving, at a monitoring server, data poll updates from a remote agent workstation subject to a series of data polls, the data poll updates including workstation data corresponding to changed regions of a screen display detected between the data polls;

    identifying, at the monitoring server, a trigger condition from the data poll updates andupon identifying by the monitoring server that the trigger condition exists;

    controlling, with the monitoring server, data recording of telephone and on-screen computer activities associated with the agent at a remote location;

    capturing video imagery from the remote agent workstation, wherein the capturing of video imagery is controlled by the monitoring server while the video imagery is transmitted as a continuous data stream from the camera to the monitoring server;

    configuring the data recording and the video imagery capturing as passive processes not visible to the end user; and

    storing call records in a call records database, the call records comprising the telephone and on-screen computer activities, video imagery and metadata that includes any trigger condition that was identified for a respective call record;

    configuring a statistics collection module on the monitor server to search the call records to detect patterns of behavior from multiple call records and multiple instances of triggers in the call records; and

    using the statistics collection module to determine additional triggers from the patterns of behavior for use by the monitoring server.

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