IP Library Granted Patent US 9,325,843
Granted Patent B1
US 9,325,843 · App. 14/167,361 · Granted Apr 26, 2016

Real-time monitoring of agent adherence

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Patent No.
US 9,325,843
App. No.
14/167,361
Granted
Apr 26, 2016
Kind
B1
Abstract

A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for real-time monitoring of agent adherence. The method comprises collecting events and data for an agent from at least one phone router, collecting time keeping data from a time clock system, collecting data and events from a scheduling system, normalizing the events, data, and generating at least one user interface comprising normalized data, presenting at least one view of the at least one user interface to at least one application, and refreshing the at least one view with updated events and data.

Claims (52)

1. A method, comprising:

collecting, by a web application server of a real-time monitoring system, events and data for an agent from a scheduling system and a phone router;

collecting, by a server of the real-time monitoring system, events and data for the agent from the phone router, wherein the phone router comprises a phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and comprises a state of the agent's phone at that time, the state of the agent's phone comprising active or inactive on the phone router, the phone skill name comprising a skill name the agent is currently working;

collecting, by the web application server of the real-time monitoring system, time keeping events and data from a time keeping system, the time keeping data comprising clocked-in time, clocked-out time, lunch time and break time, the time keeping events comprising whether the agent is out on break, on lunch or sick;

normalizing the events, data, the time keeping data of multiple data formats and generating normalized data and at least one user interface comprising the normalized data, by a server side process of the real-time monitoring system; and

wherein the at least one user interface is one of a staff application user interface and a desktop application user interface;

providing the normalized data to a message broker of the real-time monitoring system;

presenting, by the message broker, at least one view of the at least one user interface of the normalized events and data to one of the staff application user interface and the desktop application user interface;

wherein the display of details for the particular skill of the at least one agent comprises details of the at least one agent for the particular skill, and wherein the details comprise an adherence state, a reason for being out of adherence, an adherence percentage, and a working skill;

wherein the reason for being out of adherence comprises a number of agents inactive on the switch, working but not scheduled, working and schedule mismatch, working the wrong skill, clocked in but not working and not scheduled, on break but working, at lunch but working and clocked out but scheduled;

wherein the display of details for a particular agent comprises working skills of the particular agent, and adherence history of the particular agent; and

periodically fetching the events and data from the phone router, including a change to at least one of the phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and a change to the phone state of the agent;

wherein the at least one view comprises: at least one level of display, wherein the at least one level of display includes a display of details across a plurality of sites, a display of details for a particular site, a display of details for a particular skill, and a display of details for a particular agent; and

wherein the display of details for the particular site comprises details of at least one agent in the particular site, wherein the details comprises an adherence percentage, a reason for not being in adherence, a working skill of the at least one agent, a scheduled skill of the at least one agent, a time clock state of the at least one agent, real-time statistics for the particular site, the real-time statistics comprise a number of total agents, a number of agents scheduled, a number of agents clocked-in, a number of working agents, a number of agents who are inactive on a switch, a number of agents who are working but not scheduled, a number of agents who are working a wrong skill, a percentage of agents in adherence, and a number of agents out of adherence.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the phone skill that the agent is currently taking calls for is also referred to as a working skill and wherein a phone skill name that the agent is currently scheduled to take calls for is also referred to as a scheduled skill.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein non-adherence by the agent is indicated when the working skill differs from the scheduled skill.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the scheduling system generates at least one schedule for an agent.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein normalizing the events, data, time keeping data comprises computing the event, data, and time keeping data in a high performance computing server.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one view comprises at least one level of display, wherein the at least one level of display includes a display of details across a plurality of sites, a display of details for a particular site, a display of details for a particular skill, and a display of details for a particular agent.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adherence percentage is calculated by dividing the number of agents who are in adherence over the number of total agents and multiplying the result by 100.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the number of agents who are in adherence is calculated by subtracting the number of agents who are out of adherence from the number of total agents.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprises locating and monitoring at least one agent.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein locating at least one agent comprises performing a search for at least one agent across a plurality of sites, in a particular site, or for a particular skill.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein monitoring at least one agent

comprises at least one of: adding at least one agent to a watch list;

selecting an agent from the at least one agent; viewing details of the agent in the at least one view; and

notifying the at least one user in response to the at least one agent in the watch list one of initially becoming active on a switch, initially being scheduled, and exhibiting an initial time clock state other than Logged Out.

12. A system, comprising:

a Web application server, collecting events and data for an agent from a scheduling system; the web application server, collecting time keeping events and time keeping data from a time keeping system, the time keeping data comprising clocked-in time, clocked-out time, lunch time and break time, the time keeping events comprising whether the agent is out on break, on lunch or sick;

a server, collecting events and data for the agent from at least one phone router wherein the at least one phone router comprises a phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and comprises a state of the agent's phone at that time, the state of the agent's phone comprising active or inactive on the at least one phone router, the phone skill name comprising a skill name the agent is currently working; a high performance computing system, normalizing the events, data, the time keeping data and generating normalized data and at least one user interface comprising the normalized data;

wherein the at least one user interface is one of a staff application user interface and a desktop application user interface;

providing the normalized data to a message broker; the message broker, presenting at least one view of the at least one user interface to one of the staff application user interface and the desktop application user interface;

wherein the at least one view comprises: at least one level of display, wherein the at least one level of display includes a display of details across a plurality of sites, a display of details for a particular site, a display of details for a particular skill, and a display of details for a particular agent;

wherein the display of details for the particular site comprises details of at least one agent in the particular site, wherein the details comprises an adherence percentage, a reason for not being in adherence, a working skill of the at least one agent, a scheduled skill of the at least one agent, a time clock state of the at least one agent, real-time statistics for the particular site, the real-time statistics comprise a number of total agents, a number of agents scheduled, a number of agents clocked-in, a number of working agents, a number of agents who are inactive on a switch, a number of agents who are working but not scheduled, a number of agents who are working a wrong skill, a percentage of agents in adherence, and a number of agents out of adherence;

wherein the display of details for the particular skill of the at least one agent comprises details of the at least one agent for the particular skill, and wherein the details comprise an adherence state, a reason for being out of adherence, an adherence percentage, and a working skill;

wherein the reason for being out of adherence comprises a number of agents inactive on the switch, working but not scheduled, working and schedule mismatch, working the wrong skill, clocked in but not working and not scheduled, on break but working, at lunch but working and clocked out but scheduled;

wherein the display of details for a particular agent comprises working skills of the particular agent, and adherence history of the particular agent; and

the web application server, periodically fetching the events and data from the phone router, including a change to at least one of the phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and a change to the phone state of the agent.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform:

collecting, by a web application server of a real-time monitoring system, events and data for an agent from a scheduling system;

collecting, by a server of the real-time monitoring system, events and data for the agent from at least one phone router wherein the at least one phone router comprises a phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and comprises &he a state of the agent's phone at that time, the state of the agent's phone comprising active or inactive on the at least one phone router, the phone skill name comprising a skill name the agent is currently working;

collecting, by the web application server of the real-time monitoring system, time keeping events and data from a time keeping system, the time keeping data comprising clocked-in time, clocked-out time, lunch time and break time, the time keeping events comprising whether the agent is out on break, on lunch or sick;

normalizing the events, data, the time keeping data and generating normalized data and at least one user interface comprising the normalized data, by a server side process of the real-time monitoring system;

wherein the at least one user interface is one of a staff application user interface and a desktop application user interface;

providing the normalized data to a message broker of the real-time monitoring system;

presenting, by the message broker, at least one view of the at least one user interface to one of the staff application user interface and the desktop application user interface;

wherein the at least one view comprises: at least one level of display, wherein the at least one level of display includes a display of details across a plurality of sites, a display of details for a particular site, a display of details for a particular skill, and a display of details for a particular agent;

wherein the display of details for the particular site comprises details of at least one agent in the particular site, wherein the details comprises an adherence percentage, a reason for not being in adherence, a working skill of the at least one agent, a scheduled skill of the at least one agent, a time clock state of the at least one agent, real-time statistics for the particular site, the real-time statistics comprise a number of total agents a number of agents scheduled, a number of agents clocked-in, a number of working agents, a number of agents who are inactive on a switch, a number of agents who are working but not scheduled, a number of agents who are working a wrong skill, a percentage of agents in adherence, and a number of agents out of adherence;

wherein the display of details for the particular skill of the at least one agent comprises details of the at least one agent for the particular skill, and wherein the details comprise an adherence state, a reason for being out of adherence, an adherence percentage, and a working skill;

wherein the reason for being out of adherence comprises a number of agents inactive on the switch, working but not scheduled, working and schedule mismatch, working the wrong skill, clocked in but not working and not scheduled, on break but working, at lunch but working and clocked out but scheduled;

wherein the display of details for a particular agent comprises working skills of the particular agent, and adherence history of the particular agent; and

periodically fetching the events and data from the phone router, including a change to at least one of the phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and a change to the phone state of the agent.

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