System and method of propagating exclusion records in a networked computer telephony integration system
First Claim
1. A method of propagating exclusion records between a plurality of distributed call centers, each said call center including a computer telephony integration (CTI) system having a dynamic data record exclusion system, said dynamic data record exclusion system having at least one exclusion table, said plurality of call centers linked over a computer network, said method comprising the steps of:
- maintaining at least one exclusion table in said first call center'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system, said at least one exclusion table for holding at least one exclusion record;
sending said at least one exclusion table including said at least one exclusion record and a list of distributed call center CTI systems to which said at least one exclusion table should be exported to an exclusion record exporter;
saving said at least one exclusion table including at least one exclusion record to be exported in a transfer file;
transferring said transfer file to a defined directory at said at least one distributed call center CTI system;
searching, using an exclusion record importer, said defined directory to identify if at least one new file has been transferred to said defined directory; and
copying said at least one exclusion table including at least one exclusion record stored in an identified new transfer file to an appropriate exclusion table maintained in said distributed call center CTI system'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system.
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Abstract
A system and method of propagating exclusion records between a plurality of networked call centers is provided. Each call center includes a CTI system having a dynamic data record exclusion system. The system includes an exclusion record exporter and an exclusion record importer interfacing the dynamic data record exclusion system at each networked CTI system, which export and import exclusion records that are generated at one CTI system to the remaining networked CTI systems. The method begins by maintaining at least one exclusion table including at least one exclusion record in a first call center'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system. Then, the exclusion records, along with a list of the networked call centers to which the exclusion records should be sent, are sent to an exclusion record exporter, where they are saved in a transfer file. The exclusion record exporter then transfers each transfer file to a defined directory at an exclusion record importer at at least one other networked call center. Each exclusion record importer searches its defined directory and, if a new transfer file is identified, copies the exclusion records to an appropriate exclusion table in that call center'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system.
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1. A method of propagating exclusion records between a plurality of distributed call centers, each said call center including a computer telephony integration (CTI) system having a dynamic data record exclusion system, said dynamic data record exclusion system having at least one exclusion table, said plurality of call centers linked over a computer network, said method comprising the steps of:
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maintaining at least one exclusion table in said first call center'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system, said at least one exclusion table for holding at least one exclusion record; sending said at least one exclusion table including said at least one exclusion record and a list of distributed call center CTI systems to which said at least one exclusion table should be exported to an exclusion record exporter; saving said at least one exclusion table including at least one exclusion record to be exported in a transfer file; transferring said transfer file to a defined directory at said at least one distributed call center CTI system; searching, using an exclusion record importer, said defined directory to identify if at least one new file has been transferred to said defined directory; and copying said at least one exclusion table including at least one exclusion record stored in an identified new transfer file to an appropriate exclusion table maintained in said distributed call center CTI system'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system.
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2. A system for propagating exclusion records between a plurality of distributed call centers, each said call center including a computer telephony integration (CTI) system having a dynamic data record exclusion system, said dynamic data record exclusion system having at least one exclusion table, said plurality of call centers linked over a computer network, said system comprising:
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said call center'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system for maintaining at least one exclusion table holding at least one exclusion record; an exclusion record exporter for saving said at least one exclusion table including at least one exclusion record to be exported in a transfer file and for sending said at least one exclusion table including said at least one exclusion record and a list of distributed call center CTI systems to which said at least one exclusion table should be exported; an exclusion record importer for receiving said transfer file, saving said transfer file to a defined directory at said at least one distributed call center CTI system, and searching said defined directory to identify if at least one new file that has been transferred to said defined directory; and
copying said at least one exclusion table including at least one exclusion record stored in an identified new transfer file to an appropriate exclusion table maintained in said distributed call center CTI system'"'"'s dynamic data record exclusion system. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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