Blending communications in a call center
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1. A call processor in a call center having one or more agents to answer calls using one or more agent computers, comprising:
- a blender process to blend one or more types of communications for display to said one or more agents;
a central computer to run said blender process;
a computer network to connect aid one or more agent computers to said central computer;
a message router, executing on said central computer, for sending messages containing information related to said one or more types of communications to said one or more computers; and
a queue list on each of said one or more agent computers to display said information related to said one or more types of communications to said one or more agents.
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Abstract
A call processor in a call center provides agents with enhanced ability to handle multiple types of communications in a consistent manner. Information related to communications received by the call processor are displayed to agents in the call center in queue lists. Agents can select calls for further processing from the information presented in the queue lists.
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23 Claims
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1. A call processor in a call center having one or more agents to answer calls using one or more agent computers, comprising:
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a blender process to blend one or more types of communications for display to said one or more agents;
a central computer to run said blender process;
a computer network to connect aid one or more agent computers to said central computer;
a message router, executing on said central computer, for sending messages containing information related to said one or more types of communications to said one or more computers; and
a queue list on each of said one or more agent computers to display said information related to said one or more types of communications to said one or more agents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for processing calls in a call center having at least one agent, each agent having an agent'"'"'s computer and a display device associated with the agent'"'"'s computer and a computer network connecting each agent'"'"'s computer to a central computer, comprising the steps of:
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(a) creating a queue list to store information relating to communications to the call center to each agent;
(b) receiving a plurality of communications having different communications types;
(c) blending said plurality of communications such that information related to each communication of said plurality of communications is presented to each of the at least one agents in each agent'"'"'s respective queue list; and
(d) presenting said queue list for each agent on the display device associated with the agent'"'"'s computer. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A communication type blender for blending inbound and outbound communications to and from a call center having a plurality of agents, each agent having an agent computer operatively coupled to a display device, comprising:
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means for establishing and maintaining on each agent computer a queue list that is displayed to each agent on the display device associated with agent'"'"'s computer;
means for adding inbound communications to one or more of the queue lists;
means for detecting when any of the one or more queue lists is empty; and
means for placing an outbound communication to be handled by an agent determined to have an empty queue list. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for blending inbound and outbound communications to and from a call center having a plurality of agents, each agent having an agent computer operatively coupled to a display device, comprising the steps of:
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(a) establishing and maintaining on each agent computer a queue list that is displayed to each agent on the display device associated with agent'"'"'s computer;
(b) adding inbound communications to one or more of the queue lists;
(c) detecting when any of the one or more queue lists is empty; and
(e) placing an outbound communication to be handled by an agent determined to have an empty queue list. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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