Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Mci, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Verizon Business Global LLC

Steven William Statham

Ronald A Medo

David E Phelps

Kirk Randall Hill

Brian S Badger

Gregory J Bjornberg

Neelima Kalagara

Nagaratna Hegde

In some implementations, a computing device may receive a selection of one or more contact center features, the contact center features associated with one or more micro services configured to execute the one or more contact center features. The computing device may select a model from a plurality of stored models based at least in part on the selection of the one or more contact center features, the selected model comprising programmable code configured to execute the one or more micro services. The computing device may provision the selected model to execute the one or more micro services. The computing device may generate executable code from the provisioned model using an automation server for deployment to one or more servers.

Techniques for building and optimizing contact service centers

A network device in a service provider network receives an incoming call, from a caller, to a telephone number associated with a customer. The network device applies to the call an interactive voice response (IVR) script corresponding to the customer and determines that the caller wants to speak to an agent. The network device establishes a secure duplex communication channel between the network device and an automatic call distributor (ACD) for the customer. The secure duplex communication channel is dedicated for use in managing the incoming call. The network device informs the ACD, via the secure duplex communication channel, that an agent is needed for the incoming call and receives, via the secure duplex communication channel, instructions from the ACD to manage the incoming call.

Third-party call control over secure duplex communication channel

A system may include a failed route avoidance device. The failed route avoidance device may receive a notification that a record, of a call that failed to be extended to a contact agent in a customer network, is inserted into a failed call list; determine whether an identifier for the contact agent associated with the call is to be placed in an avoidance list based on a response code that a network element sends, to a call router that received the call, when the a connection from the call at the call router to the contact agent fails to be established; generate an avoidance record when the failed route avoidance device determines that the identifier for the contact agent is to be placed in the avoidance list; and send the avoidance record to a configuration device that inserts the avoidance record into the avoidance list.

Avoiding failed routes

A token representing encrypted data is used to initiate a call routing strategy based on receipt of the token. The call routing strategy is configured to initiate a query. Decrypted data associated with the encrypted data may be accessed to determine a data relationship based on the query.

IVR call routing using encrypted data

In recent times, communications service providers have been able to offer large business enterprises the ability to share call center operation among multiple geographically dispersed call centers. In particular, network-resident call handling technologies have been developed for performing some of the handling and queuing of each inbound call within the communications network, that is, before the call is forwarded to an ACD at a particular call center. However, by outsourcing a portion of the call center operations to a network-based call routing system, the call centers are no longer able to maintain direct control over, and are generally unable to directly access information, such as statistics, about the calls in the network or other call centers. Accordingly, an interface is provided that allows an entity to obtain information about calls within the network or other call center(s).

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Steven William Statham