Multi-channel enterprise communication management framework

• US 20060149571A1
• Filed: 12/30/2004
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Peter Maxwell, Rodney Birch
• Original Assignee: Peter Maxwell, Rodney Birch
• Inventors: Maxwell, Peter, Birch, Rodney
• Application Number:
  US11/027,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20060149571A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer programs, etc. for unifying management of customer messages and responses in an enterprise across a plurality of channels are provided. One embodiment is an enterprise system comprising: a plurality of enterprise applications for interacting with customers via a plurality of channels; and a communication management framework for managing messages to be presented to the customers and customer responses to the messages across the plurality of enterprise applications.

Claims

1. An enterprise system comprising:

a plurality of enterprise applications for interacting with customers via a plurality of channels; and

a communication management framework for managing messages to be presented to the customers and customer responses to the messages across the plurality of enterprise applications.

2. The enterprise system of claim 1, further comprising a data repository for storing the messages and the customer responses to the messages.

3. The enterprise system of claim 1, wherein the communication management framework is configured to service a message delivery request from at least one of the plurality of enterprise applications.

4. The enterprise system of claim 1, wherein the communication management framework is integrated with an enterprise platform that functions as a front-end provider of services to the plurality of enterprise applications.

5. The enterprise system of claim 1, wherein the communication management framework comprises:

a message object defining a message to be presented to at least one of the customers;

a channel-specific object representing channel-specific content associated with the message; and

a customer interaction object representing a planned customer interaction associated with the message.

6. The enterprise system of claim 5, wherein the message object defines at least one of a marketing message, an interval alert, a conditional alert, and a secure message.

7. The enterprise system of claim 5, wherein the communication management framework further comprises:

an interaction history object representing actual customer interactions associated with the message;

a customer object representing the at least one customers to receive the message; and

an enterprise channel object representing at least one of the plurality of channels through which the message is to be delivered.

8. The enterprise system of claim 7, wherein the communication management framework further comprises a channel interaction object defining a maximum number of times the planned customer interaction may be presented to the at least one customer via the at least one of the plurality of channels through which the message is to be delivered.

9. The enterprise system of claim 1, wherein the communication management framework comprises an interface for receiving message delivery requests from the plurality of applications and for receiving the customer responses to the messages.

10. The enterprise system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of channels comprises one of a full-service channel, a self-service channel, and an automated channel.

11. The enterprise system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of channels comprises an interactive voice response (IVR) channel, an Internet channel, an automated teller machine (ATM) channel, and a bank teller channel.

12. A service-oriented, enterprise platform for providing banking solutions to financial service providers, the service-oriented, enterprise platform comprising:

a communication management framework for managing messages to be presented to customers of a financial service provider across a plurality of enterprise channels and for managing customer responses to the messages, the communication management framework comprising;

a message object defining a message to be presented to at least one of the customers;

a channel-specific object representing channel-specific content associated with the message; and

a customer interaction object representing a planned customer interaction associated with the message; and

a data repository for storing the messages and the customer responses to the messages.

13. The service-oriented, enterprise platform of claim 12, wherein the message object defines at least one of a marketing message, an interval alert, a conditional alert, and a secure message.

14. The service-oriented, enterprise platform of claim 12, wherein the communication management framework further comprises:

an interaction history object representing actual customer interactions associated with the message;

a customer object representing the at least one customers to receive the message; and

an enterprise channel object representing at least one of the plurality of channels through which the message is to be delivered.

15. The service-oriented, enterprise platform of claim 14, wherein the communication management framework further comprises a channel interaction object defining a maximum number of times the planned customer interaction may be presented to the at least one customer via the at least one of the plurality of channels through which the message is to be delivered.

16. A multi-channel enterprise communication management framework (MECMF) embodied in a computer-readable medium for unifying customer messages and responses in an enterprise across a plurality of channels, the (MECMF) comprising:

a message object defining a message to be presented to at least one of the customers;

a channel-specific object representing channel-specific content associated with the message; and

a customer interaction object representing a planned customer interaction associated with the message.

17. The MECMF of claim 16, wherein the message object defines at least one of a marketing message, an interval alert, a conditional alert, and a secure message.

18. The MECMF of claim 16, further comprising:

an interaction history object representing actual customer interactions associated with the message;

a customer object representing the at least one customers to receive the message; and

an enterprise channel object representing at least one of the plurality of channels through which the message is to be delivered.

19. The MECMF of claim 18, further comprising a channel interaction object defining a maximum number of times the planned customer interaction may be presented to the at least one customer via the at least one of the plurality of channels through which the message is to be delivered.

20. The MECMF of claim 16, wherein at least one of the plurality of channels comprises an interactive voice response (IVR) channel, an Internet channel, an automated teller machine (ATM) channel, and a bank teller channel.