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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:
Jan. 05, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2008
Applicants:

John Costello, Galway, IE;

David Murray, Galway, IE;

Frank Mcguire, Galway, IE;

Martin Walker, Galway, IE;

Inventors:

John Costello, Galway, IE;

David Murray, Galway, IE;

Frank McGuire, Galway, IE;

Martin Walker, Galway, IE;

Assignee:

AVAYA INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04M 5/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01); H04M 3/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/51 (2013.01); H04M 3/58 (2013.01); H04M 2201/40 (2013.01);
Abstract

During communications sessions between an agent in a call center and a customer, it is often desirable that a secondary agent is consulted, the secondary agent perhaps more suited to the particular needs of the customer. It is preferred that the original agent is presented with a list of the best-suited agents with which to consult, if needs be. Accordingly, a system and method for managing a list of contacts for presentation to a user of a computer system (e.g. a call center agent) is disclosed. The system provides for the monitoring of live communications between an agent and a customer, and further provides for the detecting of a pattern of data in the monitored live communications interaction (e.g. utilising speech recognition to recognise use of a particular keyword). The system is then operable to present a list of suggested contacts to the agent, the suggested contacts chosen based on a match between selection criteria for that contact and on the particular data pattern detected.


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