Unify Square, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Arun Raghavan

Sudhanshu M Aggarwal

Robert Osborne

Edward Melomed

Alan Shen

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Vij Rajarajan

Lorenzo Rizzi

Adam Herscher

Gerardo Dilillo

The present disclosure includes descriptions of various aspects of unified communication (UC) systems, including UC management and analysis systems and related tools and techniques. Described systems, tools, and techniques are adapted for enhanced UC data capture, analysis, and reporting; enhanced UC monitoring services; and a user survey service that can be used for conducting user surveys related to UC services. Embodiments disclosed herein include computer systems and methods that can be used for analyzing service level objectives for call quality, classifying calls into distinct categories, and real-time user notification of call quality and reliability issues.

Enhanced data capture, analysis, and reporting for unified communications

The present disclosure includes descriptions of various aspects of unified communication (UC) systems, including UC management and analysis systems and related tools and techniques. Described systems, tools, and techniques are adapted for enhanced UC data capture, analysis, and reporting; enhanced UC monitoring services; and a user survey service that can be used for conducting user surveys related to UC services. Embodiments disclosed herein include a process for determining location-based quality metrics; a process for calculating weighted availability in a computer system (e.g., a UC system); a process for generating a set of test rules based on automatic inspection of a UC topology; a process for setting a response priority for a rule failure based on classification of the failure; and process for executing a survey instance for users of a UC system based on presence information.

Advanced tools for unified communication data management and analysis

Systems and methods for information technology (IT) management, utilizing presence aware notification, are disclosed. In an implementation, the method includes receiving availability or online status of one or more users at an IT management server. The IT management server queries a monitoring database for one or more alerts. The one or more alerts are sent to the one or more users based on respective availability or online status.

Presence aware notification for information technology management

In connection with an operations management system, a vendor feedback system reports on operational events that occur on customer data centers. The operations management system provides a standardized environment for providing feedback to a vendor of components installed at the customer data centers. Methods supported by the vendor feedback system can include directing the operations management system to report on predefined operational events involving the components installed by the vendor at the customer data centers. Event reports are then stored at the customer data centers in response to occurrences of the predefined operational events. The event reports can be generated in cooperation with the operations management system. The event reports are transmitted to the vendor as feedback relating to the components, and the vendor receives the event reports from the customer data centers. The vendor, in turn, can then analyze the event reports in detail to address any issues with the vendor's products or services, referred to collectively as components, that may be increasing the customer's TCO.

Requesting, obtaining, and processing operational event feedback from customer data centers

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