IP Library Granted Patent US 9,124,697
Granted Patent B2
US 9,124,697 · App. 13/888,318 · Granted Sep 1, 2015

System for analyzing interactions and reporting analytic results to human operated and system interfaces in real time

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Patent No.
US 9,124,697
App. No.
13/888,318
Granted
Sep 1, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computerized system for advising one communicant in electronic communication between two or more communicants has apparatus monitoring and recording interaction between the communicants, software executing from a machine-readable medium and providing analytics, the software functions including rendering speech into text, and analyzing the rendered text for topics, performing communicant verification, and detecting changes in communicant emotion. Advice is offered to the one communicant during the interaction, based on results of the analytics.

Claims (29)

1. An apparatus for managing interactions for a contact center, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

analyze a real-time communication with a customer;

detect a topic or an emotional state of the customer or contact center agent based on the analyzed communication;

provide on a graphical user interface accessible to a supervisor of the contact center agent, data relating to the detected topic or emotional state; and

receive, in response to interaction by the supervisor with the graphical user interface, selection of an action to be taken in response to the topic or the emotional state, wherein the action includes providing real-time advice to the contact center agent.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the real-time advice comprises a script for guiding the contact center agent.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to verify an identity of the customer, and the providing of the real-time advice to the contact center agent is, at least in part, in response to the identity of the customer being verified.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the action comprises rerouting the customer from the contact center agent to another contact center agent.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the analyzing of the real-time communication further comprises monitoring an answer by the customer to a security question for detecting fraud.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the data further comprises statistics of how many current conversations have customers who are suspected of fraud.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein analyzing the real-time communication further comprises comparing a voice of the customer to a voice sample.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the real-time communication comprises a text communication.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to analyze the text communication for detecting the emotional state of the customer or contact center agent based on phrase interpretation, character state interpretation, or emotion icon recognition.

10. A method for managing interactions in a contact center, comprising:

analyzing, by a processor, a real-time communication with a customer;

detecting, by the processor, a topic or an emotional state of the customer or a contact center agent based on the analyzed communication;

providing, by the processor, on a graphical user interface accessible to a supervisor of the contact center agent, data relating to the detected topic or emotional state; and

receiving, by the processor, in response to interaction by the supervisor with the graphical user interface, selection of an action to be taken in response to the topic or the emotional state, wherein the action includes providing real-time advice to the contact center agent.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the real-time advice comprises a script for guiding the contact center agent.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

verifying, by the processor, an identity of the customer, wherein the providing of the real-time advice to the contact center agent is, at least in part, in response to the identity of the customer being verified.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the action comprises rerouting the customer from the contact center agent to another contact center agent.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the analyzing of the real-time communication further comprises monitoring, by the processor, an answer by the customer to a security question for detecting fraud.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the data further comprises statistics of how many current conversations have customers who are suspected of fraud.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein analyzing the real-time communication further comprises comparing, by the processor, a voice of the customer to a voice sample.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the real-time communication comprises a text communication.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising analyzing, by the processor, the text communication for detecting the emotional state of the customer or contact center agent based on phrase interpretation, character state interpretation, or emotion icon recognition.

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NOTICE OF SUCCESSION OF SECURITY INTERESTS AT REEL/FRAME 040815/0001 Recorded Feb 3, 2025
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CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 13, 2024
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