Telephone call center monitoring system allowing real-time display of summary views and interactively defined detailed views
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1. A method of displaying customer contact center agent status information via a graphical user interface, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a graphical summary view of agent status information summarizing the status of a set of agents being monitored by a user according to a plurality of predefined agent status categories;
in response to user input, generating a highlighted area on the summary agent status view comprising the status categories and a temporal window of interest to the user;
based upon the highlighted area, automatically generating a graphical detailed view linked to said summary view, said detailed view having a graphical representation of each agent currently in the highlighted categories and temporal windows chosen by the user.
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Abstract
A novel telephone call center agent monitoring and display system has a graphical user interface that allows a call center manager to automatically display a detailed multiple bar graph view of the status of particular agents currently engaged in agent activities specified by the manager for a duration also specified by the manager, the detailed view being linked to a composite view of the status of all agents being monitored by the manager. In the preferred embodiment, an agent status summary view displays in bar graph form, the collective statuses of all categories of agent status monitored by a call center manager corresponding to the longest time in the category for all of the agents monitored by the manager. If desired, the manager can “drill down” to a linked detailed view to display the duration of every agent currently in a chosen status category when the duration in that activity is within a time window chosen by the manager. Using a pointer device or simple keystrokes, the manger can generate a highlighted rectangular area on the summary view defining both the agent statuses of interest and minimum and maximum duration'"'"'s of interest.
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26 Claims
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1. A method of displaying customer contact center agent status information via a graphical user interface, said method comprising the steps of:
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providing a graphical summary view of agent status information summarizing the status of a set of agents being monitored by a user according to a plurality of predefined agent status categories;
in response to user input, generating a highlighted area on the summary agent status view comprising the status categories and a temporal window of interest to the user;
based upon the highlighted area, automatically generating a graphical detailed view linked to said summary view, said detailed view having a graphical representation of each agent currently in the highlighted categories and temporal windows chosen by the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for displaying customer contact center agent status information via a graphical user interface, said system comprising:
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a summary view generator for generating a graphical summary view of agent status information summarizing the status of a set of agents being monitored by a user according to a plurality of predefined agent status categories;
a highlight area generator coupled to said summary view generator and under the control of said user, adapted to generate a highlighted area on the summary agent status view comprising the status categories and a temporal window of interest to the user;
a detailed view generator coupled to said summary view generator and said highlight area generator, adapted to automatically generate a graphical detailed view linked to said summary view, said detailed view having a graphical representation of each agent currently in the highlighted categories and temporal windows chosen by the user. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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