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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2014
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Eric Chunyi Chou, Issaquah, WA (US);

Mark N. Kelly, Seattle, WA (US);

Ben L. Kirkpatrick, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 5/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0203 (2013.01); H04M 3/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Providers of goods and services may desire human input regarding the products that they offer. A vocal query service provides a mechanism to present queries to human respondents. A human respondent may be presented with information and subsequently queried as to their opinion. The respondents receiving the query may be selected based upon profiles containing demographic information, interest information, desired contact time, and the like. Prospective respondents may be contacted via a personal telephone at a time of their choosing and may choose whether or not to respond. During the query, should a respondent require assistance, the respondent may be contact a customer service agent. Query respondents may be motivated to participate, as the query is designed to appeal to respondent's interest and is presented at a convenient time. The query service may also increase the customer service agents to expand the query to additional human respondents in near-real time.


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