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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2008
Donald C. Lewis, Bell Buckle, TN (US);
Aaron C. Beshears, Franklin, TN (US);
Donald C. Lewis, Bell Buckle, TN (US);
Aaron C. Beshears, Franklin, TN (US);
Aspect Software, Inc., Westford, MA (US);
Abstract
Method and system of estimating a number of agents to service contacts arriving on multiple chat channels in an automatic contact distribution system. In some embodiments, estimated average times that agents and contacts spend, respectively, composing a single chat message and an estimated average time of a chat session are used to derive an inflated handle time for any selected number of chat channels, an effective number of agents is computed for the inflated handle time, and that effective number of agents is divided by the selected number of channels.