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Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2008
Applicants:

Qiaobing Xie, Chesterfield, MO (US);

S. James P. Spottiswoode, Beverly Hills, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qiaobing Xie, Chesterfield, MO (US);

S. James P. Spottiswoode, Beverly Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04M 5/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/523 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/5232 (2013.01); H04M 2201/16 (2013.01); H04M 2201/18 (2013.01); H04M 3/42068 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for routing callers to agents in a call-center routing environment. An exemplary method includes pooling incoming callers, and causing a caller from the pool of callers to be routed. The caller may be routed from the pool of callers to an agent, placed in another pool of callers, or placed in a queue of callers. The caller data may include demographic or psychographic data. The caller may be routed from the pool of callers based on comparing the caller data with agent data associated with an agent via a pattern matching algorithm and/or computer model for predicting a caller-agent pair outcome. Additionally, if a caller is held beyond a hold threshold (e.g., a time, 'cost' function, or the like) the caller may be routed to the next available agent.


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