Personal desktop router
First Claim
1. A method for routing telephone calls to a plurality of individual agent workstations at a customer premises, comprising steps of:
- (a) receiving a call at a telephony switch coupled to a customer local area network (LAN);
(b) forwarding an indication of the received call to a personal computer (PC) at the at least one of the agent workstations connected to the LAN, wherein the PC executes a personal router application having a set of specific personal routing rules for that particular agent workstation on which it resides;
(c) determining routing for the call in the personal router application for the particular agent workstation based on the specific set of routing rules for that workstation; and
(d) sending routing commands effecting further routing of the call to the telephony switch as a result of the personal routing determined in step (c).
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Abstract
A personal telephone call router adapted to execute on a personal computer (PC) connected to a local area network (LAN) wherein the LAN is also connected to a computerized telephony switching system has a graphic user interface allowing an individual user to route incoming calls from his/her PC by drag-and-drop techniques. In some embodiments the user may also customize routing rules for incoming calls. In preferred embodiments incoming calls are directed in the telephony switch to a virtual routing destination. In some cases each individual user is associated with a specific virtual destination, and in others data associated with each call is broadcast on the LAN to be filtered at each PC on the Lan running a personal router according to an embodiment of the invention.
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9 Claims
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1. A method for routing telephone calls to a plurality of individual agent workstations at a customer premises, comprising steps of:
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(a) receiving a call at a telephony switch coupled to a customer local area network (LAN);
(b) forwarding an indication of the received call to a personal computer (PC) at the at least one of the agent workstations connected to the LAN, wherein the PC executes a personal router application having a set of specific personal routing rules for that particular agent workstation on which it resides;
(c) determining routing for the call in the personal router application for the particular agent workstation based on the specific set of routing rules for that workstation; and
(d) sending routing commands effecting further routing of the call to the telephony switch as a result of the personal routing determined in step (c). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. In a customer premises telephone call-routing system, a method for individual customization of routing rules for an incoming telephone call, comprising steps of:
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(a) calling a user interface on a computer connected to a customer LAN, the LAN also coupled to a computerized telephony switch system receiving the incoming telephone call, wherein the telephony switch system broadcasts data associated with the incoming call on the LAN prior to routing the incoming call;
(b) editing routing rules in a routing application residing on the computer, the routing rules stored specifically for routing calls to that specific user at the user interface;
(c) associating the edited routing rules with the broadcast data; and
(d) instructing the computerized telephony switch system to route the incoming call according to specific routing determined by the user'"'"'s edited routing rules. - View Dependent Claims (6)
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7. A Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) application executing on a routing processor for routing incoming calls, the processor connected to a local area network (LAN) having connections to a telephony switch and to a plurality of individual agent workstations in a call center, comprising:
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a separate set of routing rules for each individual agent workstation;
wherein the CTI application instructs the telephony switch to route calls to individual agent workstations based on the individual routing rules stored for that specific workstation. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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