Avaya Inc.

Avaya Technology LLC

Koopid, Inc

David Skiba

George William Erhart

Valentine C Matula

Michael J Sammon

Lee Becker

Reinhard P Klemm

Lawrence P O'Gorman

Jon Louis Bentley

Ajita John

Doree Duncan Seligmann

Venkatesh Krishnaswamy

Patrick Tendick

Wen-Hua Ju

John H Yoakum

Tony McCormack

Shalini Yajnik

Ramanujan Kashi

Keith M Ponting

Seamus Hayes

Kundan Singh

Wendy J Holmes

Adrian Ryan

Glen A Taylor

Peter Finney

John Rix

Andrew Maher

Samuel Fisher

Andrew Derek Flockhart

Mehmet Balasaygun

David S Mohler

Rajeshwari Edamadaka

Krishna Kishore Dhara

Joann J Ordille

Jonathan Silverman

Ravi Sethi

Emily E Matula

Alberto Pasi

Arzucan Ozgur

A service robot may be autonomous, with respect to a portion of a customer service task, and coordinated, with respect to another portion of a customer service task. A resource, such as another robot or an agent (human or automated), may monitor or interact with the robot and, in such a combination, perform a customer service task. The robot may be instructed to pause or delay initiation of a robot portion to allow for a resource to become available at a common time that the interaction portion is to be performed to minimize delay and promote better customer service. Should the delay be beyond an acceptable threshold, the robot may engage in a delay task (e.g., slow down, pause, etc.). The delay task may include a social interaction with a human at a service location.

Communication systems for multi-source robot control

Even with the best efforts to design and deliver accurate systems with usable interfaces, customers often encounter difficulties in completing a task using an electronic device, such as completing a form on a web page, using a software application, or navigating an interface. This may be due to a programming error, inaccurate instructions, or an unusual situation not contemplated by the programmers or designers. Without interaction with a human agent, a cue may be provided to the user upon detection of an issue for completing the task. A co-browse operation may be automatically initiated to provide a cue selected in accord with the issue that thereby allows the user to complete the task.

Automated coordinated co-browsing with text chat services

Associating callers of a contact center with their social media identity may provide mutual benefits to the caller and contact center. For example, a business operating a contact center can receive information about their current and potential customers and customers can receive additional information, incentives, or other perks by allowing access to their social media profile. When a caller initially calls a contact center, they are prompted, and possibly incentivized, to check into a virtual venue. The caller may then be known, via an associated social media identity, to the contact center. The virtual venue may then receive access to comments and other posts, such as endorsements, provided by connects to the social media identity and process the call in accordance with the sentiment or utilize the social media network for post-call follow-up.

Sharing virtual business venues and feedback with social connections

At least one social media channel includes a plurality of user messages, which are accessible via a communication network. At least some of the stored messages are retrieved from the at least one social media channel via the communication network, and a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ) is generated or updated by analyzing the retrieved messages to form a plurality of topical issue clusters. Each topical issue cluster is associated with at least one topic parameter from among a plurality of topic parameters, each topic parameter relates to at least one of use, installation or maintenance of a product or service, and each topical issue cluster includes at least one issue identified by a community of users and at least one resolution of the issue identified by the community of users. The generated or updated FAQ is uploaded to a storage location accessible to the community of users.

Systems and methods for compiling and dynamically updating a collection of frequently asked questions

Robotic customer service agents are provided such that, when properly authenticated, they are operable to perform a customer service task. A contact center may dispatch a robot, an accessory for a customer-owned robot, or instructions to transform an unconfigured robot, such as a generic robot, into a configured robot operable to perform the task. If the robot, such as the base or entire robot, robot at the service location, an associated user, hardware addition, and/or software addition is authentic, then the robot may be operated in an authenticated mode. If non-authenticated, then the robot may operate in a non-authenticated mode, such as one consisting of one or more tasks or features being disabled. Additionally, authentication may be temporary (e.g., time restricted) or event restricted (e.g., as long as a result stays within a given range, the robot is being observed, etc.).

Selection of robot operation mode from determined compliance with a security criteria

Handheld communication devices, such as smart phones, comprise a number of data gathering sensors. The sensors may be utilized to provide an agent of a contact center with situational information regarding the user of the handheld device. While global positioning systems (GPS) provides one means to locate a user of a communication device, GPS is not always available. However, by utilizing radio receivers, internal condition sensors, motion detectors, and other sensing components, a situation for a customer may be determined to supplement or substitute for GPS-determined location as well as to identify more relevant situations for the user beyond those provided by GPS provided location information.

Location enhancements for mobile messaging

A method for generating and communicating communication components over a messaging channel is provided. The method includes (i) presenting a structured micro block based on a conversation in a form of unstructured natural language in the messaging channel between a user and an agent (ii) incorporating the structured micro block that collects strongly typed information from the user as a part of the conversation in the messaging channel, (iv) generating a structured workflow by interleaving the structured micro block with the unstructured natural language, and (v) communicating the structured workflow over the messaging channel for enabling the user to perform one or more operations.

System and method for generating and communicating communication components over a messaging channel

Allocation of resources utilized by a contact center remains a balancing act between the burden of having resources that are generally underutilized and underperforming due to resource constraints. Many contact centers support a variety of communication types (e.g., audio-video, audio, text, email, etc.) associated with a respective communication channel. Communications may be dynamically incentivized or allocated from one communication channel having greater resource demands to another communication channel having lesser resource demands. Additionally, the resources of the contact center may be shared by customers of clients utilizing the contact center. As a result, one customer having a spike in demand may have their, and/or another customer's, communications reallocated to the less demanding channel to manage contact center resource utilization.

Automatic cloud capacity adjustment

Acceptance of robotic service agents may be improved if robots are compliant with a monitoring program of a third party. A robot may be allowed to perform certain operations if monitored or prevented from such operations if unmonitored. If authorized, a robot may be able to perform certain operations unmonitored; however, the third party may report the authorized exception. Should the robot be unmonitored, and absent unauthorized exception, the robot performs only those operations approved for unmonitored mode. Otherwise, the robot is enabled to perform tasks approved for monitored and unmonitored mode. The third party may report the monitoring, lack of monitoring, and compliance with a monitoring program accordingly.

Command and control of a robot by a contact center with third-party monitoring

Customer assistance is provided by leveraging certain contact center infrastructure components to a retail setting. Often contact centers have a wealth of information regarding individual products and services a retail setting may offer. The information, as provided herein, may then be delivered to the customer in the form of a dialogue. The dialogue may be based, in part, on a contact center dialogue for the same or similar item. The customer may then be instructed to perform an act, such as retrieving another item at a certain location. Unlike a contact center, the physical presence of the customer provides an opportunity to receive feedback in the form of monitor the customer's actions to determine if the customer complied with instructions. Optionally, a follow up activity may be imitated based on the customer's compliance.

Live assist

A method, a device and a system selects an optimal resource and/or channel. The device of a contact center receives transaction data and interaction data corresponding to a transaction between the contact center and a user device. The transaction data includes one of a current resource being utilized for the transaction or a current channel indicating a communication channel being utilized for the transaction. The interaction data corresponds to interaction information of the current resource and the user device. The device generates a current score value of the transaction based on the transaction data and the interaction data. The device determines one of a further resource or a further channel to be used for the transaction based on the current score value and a predictive model. The predictive model defines relations between score values with the resources or the channels.

Optimal resource and channel selection

A method for generating a rich persistent conversation history from structured and unstructured information using a communication protocol is provided. The method includes (i) receiving media contents associated with conversations from messaging channels, (ii) selecting a set of selected messaging channels from where the media contents are received, (iii) demarcating boundaries in each of the media contents associated with the conversations based on an activity of users, (iv) inserting segmentation demarcations to a first conversation to differentiate the first conversation from a second conversation, (v) determining communication elements for each conversation associated with the segmentation demarcations on each messaging channel, (vi) generating a conversation snippet by linking the communication elements for each messaging channel, (vii) linking conversation snippets to generate a segment associated with the conversation for each messaging channel using lexical and non-lexical features and (viii) generating the rich persistent conversation history by linking segments from the messaging channels.

System and method for generating a rich persistent conversation history using a communication protocol

According to one embodiment, audio and non-audio data can be represented as sound sources in a three-dimensional sound space adapted to also provide visual data. Non-audio data can be associated with audio sound sources presented in the sound space. Navigation within this combined three-dimensional audio/visual space can be based primarily on the audio aspects of the sound sources with the details of the non-audio data being presented on demand, for example, when the listener navigates through the combined three-dimensional audio/visual space to a particular sound source at which point the non-audio data associated with that sound source can be presented.

Three-dimensional generalized space

The delivery of goods to a customer comprises a substantial portion of human activity. To correct address errors and/or to more precisely locate delivery locations, systems are provided to assist human, human operated vehicle, or autonomous vehicles to locate a delivery point. Often the location of a delivery point is inaccurate or imprecise. GPS and other coordinate systems often fail or are imprecise without an unobstructed view of the sky. Even with coordinates available, the delivery point may be different from the coordinates or, more commonly, coordinates that are different from some standard point within a postal address associated with the coordinates. Providing a delivery system that utilizes a broadcasted identifier, such as an identifier associated with the order of the item, the delivery of the item may be made proximate to the source of the broadcasted identifier or further refined using the broadcasted identifier as a reference.

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