IP Library Patent Application 14176725
Patent Application
App. No. 14/176,725

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

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App. No.
14/176,725
Abstract

A system and method for automated customer feedback allows for automatically collecting and analyzing customer feedback data regarding customer satisfaction and customer task completion with respect to self-service applications and live agents. When contacting a customer service center, customers provide one or more customer tasks. The customers are routed within the customer service center based on the customer task and/or one or more customer characteristics. While interacting with the customer service center, the customers are automatically asked one or more specific survey questions relating to the customers' interaction with the customer service center and the customers' satisfaction levels. The customers provide one or more survey responses to the survey questions. The survey responses are recorded and analyzed in order to modify and update the customer service center and the survey questions in order to increase customer satisfaction and increase customer task completion.

Claims (36)

1 - 20 . (canceled)

21 . A call handling method, the method comprising:

receiving, by an automated self-service application, from an interactive voice response system, a call of a caller;

presenting a user interface menu to the caller;

before terminating the call, presenting to the caller a set of survey questions concerning interaction of the caller with the self-service application;

receiving from the caller a response to a question included in the set of survey questions; and

altering, by the interactive voice response system, the user interface menu based on the response.

22 . The method of claim 21 , wherein the question included in the set of survey questions is based on a task, indicated by the caller, associated with the call.

23 . The method of claim 21 , further comprising obtaining caller identification information and using the caller identification information to retrieve caller characteristics.

24 . The method of claim 23 , wherein the caller characteristics include account activity information.

25 . The method of claim 21 , wherein the question included in the set of survey questions asks the caller to indicate a level of caller satisfaction.

26 . The method of claim 25 , wherein the level of caller satisfaction is selected from a set of defined satisfaction levels.

27 . The method of claim 21 , further comprising, responsive to determining that the response exceeds a threshold value, asking the caller additional survey questions.

28 . A method of improving caller satisfaction, the method comprising:

receiving, by an automated self-service application, an inbound inquiry from an interactive voice response system, wherein the automated self-service application is associated with a task indicated by a caller;

presenting, by the automated self-service application, a user interface menu to the caller;

before terminating the inbound inquiry, asking the caller a set of survey questions regarding the automated self-service application;

receiving from the caller a response to at least one of the survey questions; and

updating, by the interactive voice response system, the set of survey questions based at least in part on the response.

29 . The method of claim 28 , further comprising storing the response in a database.

30 . The method of claim 28 , further comprising obtaining caller identification information and using the caller identification information to retrieve caller characteristics.

31 . The method of claim 30 , wherein the caller characteristics include account activity information.

32 . The method of claim 30 , wherein the caller characteristics include caller status information indicative of a premium status of the caller.

33 . The method of claim 30 , wherein routing the call comprises routing the call based at least in part on the caller characteristics.

34 . The method of claim 28 , further comprising using automated number identification to determine the identity of the caller and using the identity to retrieve caller characteristics.

35 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including processor executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by an automated self-service application, from an interactive voice response system, a call of a caller;

presenting a user interface menu to the caller;

before terminating the call, presenting to the caller a set of survey questions concerning interaction of the caller with the self-service application;

receiving from the caller a response to a question included in the set of survey questions; and

altering, by the interactive voice response system, the user interface menu based on the response.

36 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 35 , wherein the operations include selecting a question included in the set of survey questions based on a task, indicated by the caller, associated with the call.

37 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 35 , wherein the operations include obtaining caller identification information and using the caller identification information to retrieve caller characteristics.

38 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 37 , wherein the caller characteristics include account activity information.

39 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 35 , wherein a question included in the set of survey questions asks the caller to indicate a level of caller satisfaction and wherein the level of caller satisfaction is selected from a set of defined satisfaction levels.

40 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 35 , wherein the operations include asking the caller additional survey questions responsive to determining that the response exceeds a threshold value.

Assignments (6)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 19, 2021
From: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
To: SERVICENOW, INC.
Reel/Frame 054953/0566 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE NAME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 032185 FRAME: 0250. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Dec 18, 2020
From: PASQUALE, THEODORE B.; BUSHEY, ROBERT R.; KNOTT, BENJAMIN A.
To: SBC PROPERTIES, L.P.
Reel/Frame 054806/0510 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 18, 2020
From: SBC PROPERTIES, L.P.
To: SBC KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
Reel/Frame 054810/0414 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 18, 2020
From: SBC KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
To: AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
Reel/Frame 054810/0508 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 18, 2020
From: AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Reel/Frame 054810/0602 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2014
From: PASQUALE, THEODORE B.; BUSHEY, ROBERT R.; KNOTT, BENJAMIN A.
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., F/K/A SBC PROPERTIES, L.P.
Reel/Frame 032185/0250 →