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Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Shoretel, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Darren Croke, Durango, CO (US);

Asim Parekh, San Jose, CA (US);

Eric Lockhart, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

MITEL NETWORKS, INC., Mesa, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); H04M 3/523 (2006.01); H04M 3/493 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/34 (2013.01); G06Q 10/063114 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 51/02 (2013.01); H04M 3/4936 (2013.01); H04M 3/5125 (2013.01); H04M 3/5235 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure relates to handling email for a contact center. In one example, a contact center system can include an email interface to access an enterprise email system, inbound emails to and from each inbound mailbox in the contact center system being stored and maintained in the enterprise email system. An email tracking data structure can be stored in memory, the email tracking data structure programmed to store interaction data corresponding to each email interaction being processed by the contact center system. An email handling control can be programmed to control sending a reply email to a given incoming contact email from a contact based on the interaction data associated with the given incoming contact email, the reply email being sent to the contact through the enterprise email system via the email interface.


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