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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2008
Applicant:

Jeffrey W. Scudder, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jeffrey W. Scudder, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for automating the assignment of digital help-desk requests. An embodiment of the invention includes a request analyzer module which analyzes the content of the digital help-desk request, a task load monitor module which analyzes the help-desk resource availability and suitability, and a help-ticket assignment module with generates a help ticket based on the digital help-desk request and assigns the help ticket to a resource based upon the analysis of the request and the analysis of resource availability and suitability. The system may also estimate a time to respond to the request based upon an analysis of the assigned resources capabilities and status.


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