Presence awareness agent
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1. A method of servicing customers'"'"' communications in a customer contact center which distributes customers'"'"' communications for servicing among resources, comprising:
- receiving a contact from a customer;
assigning an agent service function to monitor the contact;
the agent service function collecting customer context and presence about the contacting customer, wherein the customer context comprises;
a plurality of a contacting modality employed by the contact, auditory and visual inputs characteristic to the contact mode, time of day of the contact, a current mix of contacts by other customers, language of the contacting customer, time of last contact by the contacting customer, nature of last contact by the contacting customer, service and/or service level previously provided to the contacting customer, andcustomer presence comprises;
a plurality of identity of the contacting customer, degree of anonymity of the contacting customer, where the contacting customer is contacting the contact center from, contacting customer transactional history, contacting customer needs, contacting customer preferences, customer media personalization of user configurable parameters, contacting customer profile, and contacting customer interaction with the contact center in the present contact;
the agent service function also collecting contact center state information, the contact center state information comprising;
a plurality of quantification of the contact center state, current customer resource management configuration, contact queue sizes, contact queue wait times, presence and availability of resources and skills, success rate for self-service alternatives, current chats, identities of chat participants, occupancy of current chats, start times of various contact center activities, call back times, agent'"'"'s schedules, emergency status, and unusual events impacting the contact center;
the agent service function, based on the customer context and presence and contact center state information and contact center goals, policies, and/or rules, selecting, from among a plurality of potential service options for the contacting customer, a subset of the potential service options;
the agent service function presenting the subset of potential service options to the customer; and
the agent service function receiving a selected service option from the customer and executing the selected service option.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a customer contact 100 in which a agent service function 136 to collect predetermined types of information regarding the contact and/or the contact center 100 and interface with the contact. The interface can include presenting service options to the contact. A mood detector 152 can be used to collect information about the customer'"'"'s state of mind.
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1. A method of servicing customers'"'"' communications in a customer contact center which distributes customers'"'"' communications for servicing among resources, comprising:
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receiving a contact from a customer; assigning an agent service function to monitor the contact; the agent service function collecting customer context and presence about the contacting customer, wherein the customer context comprises; a plurality of a contacting modality employed by the contact, auditory and visual inputs characteristic to the contact mode, time of day of the contact, a current mix of contacts by other customers, language of the contacting customer, time of last contact by the contacting customer, nature of last contact by the contacting customer, service and/or service level previously provided to the contacting customer, and customer presence comprises; a plurality of identity of the contacting customer, degree of anonymity of the contacting customer, where the contacting customer is contacting the contact center from, contacting customer transactional history, contacting customer needs, contacting customer preferences, customer media personalization of user configurable parameters, contacting customer profile, and contacting customer interaction with the contact center in the present contact; the agent service function also collecting contact center state information, the contact center state information comprising; a plurality of quantification of the contact center state, current customer resource management configuration, contact queue sizes, contact queue wait times, presence and availability of resources and skills, success rate for self-service alternatives, current chats, identities of chat participants, occupancy of current chats, start times of various contact center activities, call back times, agent'"'"'s schedules, emergency status, and unusual events impacting the contact center; the agent service function, based on the customer context and presence and contact center state information and contact center goals, policies, and/or rules, selecting, from among a plurality of potential service options for the contacting customer, a subset of the potential service options; the agent service function presenting the subset of potential service options to the customer; and the agent service function receiving a selected service option from the customer and executing the selected service option. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A customer contact center, comprising:
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a plurality of resources for servicing customer contacts; and an agent service function operable to monitor a selected contact from a first customer, the monitoring operation comprising the following sub-operations; collecting customer context and presence about the selected customer, wherein the customer context comprises; a plurality of a contacting modality employed by the selected contact, auditory and visual inputs characteristic to the selected contact mode, time of day of the selected contact, a current mix of contacts by other customers, language of the first customer, time of last contact by the first customer, nature of last contact by the first customer, service and/or service level previously provided to the first customer, and customer presence comprises; a plurality of identity of the first customer, degree of anonymity of the first customer, where the first customer is contacting the contact center from, first customer transactional history, first customer needs, first customer preferences, customer media personalization of user configurable parameters, first customer profile, and first customer interaction with the contact center in the selected contact; collecting contact center state information, the contact center state information comprising; a plurality of quantification of the contact center state, current customer resource management configuration, contact queue sizes, contact queue wait times, presence and availability of resources and skills, success rate for self-service alternatives, current chats, identities of chat participants, occupancy of current chats, start times of various contact center activities, call back times, agent'"'"'s schedules, emergency status, and unusual events impacting the contact center; based on the customer context and presence and contact center state information and contact center goals, policies, and/or rules, selecting, from among a plurality of potential service options for the first customer, a subset of the potential service options; presenting the subset of potential service options to the customer; receiving a selected service option from the customer; and executing the selected service option. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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