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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2022
Incontact Inc., Sandy, UT (US);
INCONTACT INC., Sandy, UT (US);
Abstract
A computerized-method for reducing wait-time in a multichannel-contact-center is provided herein. For each query that is not resolved by a hot, operating a Channel-Agnostic-Queuing (CAQ) module. The CAQ-module includes: a. selecting a digital-channel-type in a predetermined order; b. operating an aggregator module on the selected digital-channel-type to: (i) identify similar pending queries in a queue-database related to the digital-channel-type: and (ii) aggregate the received query and the identified similar pending queries into a group-of-queries; c. operating a tracker-module on the group-of-queries to identify a query-resolution and to send a notification as to the query-resolution to the customer and to related customers of the identified similar pending queries; and d. when a total-parking-period of the plurality of digital-channel-types is lower than an expected wait-time of the received query and the received query hasn't been resolved, repeating operations a.-c. until a query-resolution has been identified or all digital-channel-types have been selected.