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Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2013
Applicant:

Soundbite Communications, Inc., Bedford, MA (US);

Inventors:

Timothy R. Segall, Lexington, MA (US);

Damon Weinstein, Arlington, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/51 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 3/523 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/5191 (2013.01); H04M 3/42365 (2013.01); H04M 3/51 (2013.01); H04M 3/5232 (2013.01); H04M 3/5233 (2013.01);
Abstract

A web-based hosted solution through which business entities create and manage communications campaigns is described. To reduce latency of customer-to-agent connections, the system implements an agent stay-on-line function by which a persistent telephony connection is established and maintained between the system infrastructure and an available agent. In this manner, the agent may handle multiple customers while avoiding an ACD hold queue. In addition, preferably a service-side hold queue also is established and maintained on the service-side of the infrastructure. This hold queue maintains calls that are waiting to be connected to available agents. It ensures that any customer abandons do not impair the connections being established and maintained to the agents.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Segall, Timothy. (2017). Managing interactive communications campaigns using a hold queue (U.S. Patent No. 9544433). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9544433

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