Deutschetelekom Ag

Thomas Ziem

Christel Mueller

Marian Trinkel

Fred Runge

Romeo Peter Wetzel

Hardy Parus

Thomas Mundin

Lutz Brademann

A method for the voice-operated identification of the user of a telecommunications line in a telecommunications network is provided in the course of a dialog with a voice-operated dialog system. Utterances spoken by a caller from a group of callers limited to one telecommunications line are used during a human-to-human and/or human-to-machine dialog to apply a reference pattern for the caller. For each reference pattern, a user identifier is stored which is activated once the caller is identified, and, together with the CLI and/or ANI identifier of the telecommunications line, are made available to a server having a voice-controlled dialog system. On the basis of the CLI, including the user identifier, data previously stored for this user are ascertained by the system and made available for the dialog interface with the customer.

Method for the voice-operated identification of the user of a telecommunications line in a telecommunications network in the course of a dialog with a voice-operated dialog system

In a method for operating a global, virtual a call center having operators working all over the world, in response to a call from a customer, data suitable for identifying the customer and allocating him or her to a customer group are collected and stored. These data are compared using a search routine to stored data of the operators logged on for the call center. As a result, the customer is automatically connected by the call center server to the web browser of the workstation system of the operator selected for the customer, at the same time all of the data collected for the customer being displayed on the web browser window of the operator's monitor. For international call centers, in particular, the method improves communication between the customer and the operator.

Method for operating a global, virtual call center

A method provides customer with simple and flexible dialog control and faster access to the desired information. In response to a customer call, a control program for dialog control created with the aid of a graphical editor as a flow chart is started, once access authorization is checked. All of the computer-supported telephony (CTI) information input modules and information output modules provided within the framework of the dialog control service in question, which are subject to continuous monitoring, are simultaneously made available in parallel to the customer via a control module for controlling the resources. The customer can actively intervene in the dialog already during the welcome via the information input modules allocated to him. The dialog commences again at the place designated by the customer. The method is suitable for at least information, news and connection services which are based on very significant parallelism and which are configured for mass telephony.

Method for dialog control of voice-operated information and call information services incorporating computer-supported telephony

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