IP Library Granted Patent US 9,609,135
Granted Patent B2
US 9,609,135 · App. 15/099,583 · Granted Mar 28, 2017

Day-level SLA-based routing

Inventors: Christian McArdle (Reading, GB); Tom Fairweather (Basingstoke, GB); Jonathan Alexander Wade (Bath, GB); James Swinhoe (Newbury, GB)
Assignee: NEWVOICEMEDIA LIMITED
H04M3/5235G06Q30/01H04L45/44H04M3/5183H04M3/5232H04M3/5238
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Patent No.
US 9,609,135
App. No.
15/099,583
Granted
Mar 28, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system for day-level SLA-based routing, comprising a statistics server configured to collect, store, and provide service level agreement data; and a routing server configured to receive at least a customer interaction via a network, and configured to compare an interaction against service level agreement data provided by the statistics server, and configured to produce an interaction priority based at least in part on the comparison, and configured to route the interaction based at least in part on the interaction priority.

Claims (22)

1. A system for day-level service level agreement-based routing, comprising:

a statistics server computer comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in its memory and operating on its processor and configured to receive event data regarding interactions received at a contact center and to provide day-level service level compliance data for each of a plurality of interaction types based on the received event data; and

a routing server computer comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in its memory and operating on its processor and configured to:

receive an interaction via a network;

determine an interaction type for the interaction;

retrieve day-level service level agreement compliance data for each interaction type from the statistics server;

establish a priority for the interaction at least by comparing the day-level service agreement compliance data for the determined interaction type to the day-level service agreement compliance data for each interaction type from the plurality of interaction types other than the determined interaction type; and

route the interaction based at least in part on the established priority for the interaction;

wherein the day-level service compliance data for a specific interaction type is determined by:

determining whether a number of interactions of the specific interaction meets a type threshold; and

if the type threshold is met, computing, on a per-day or per-shift basis, a percentage of interactions of the specific interaction type that have been answered within a specific time limit.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the service level agreement compliance data further comprises an interaction count threshold, the interaction count threshold comprising at least a quantity of interactions of the interaction type required before considering the interaction type in day-level service level agreement routing decisions.

3. A method for day-level service level agreement-based routing, comprising the steps of:

receiving, at a routing server computer comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in its memory and operating on its processor, an interaction;

determining the interaction's type;

retrieving day-level service level agreement compliance data for each interaction type from a statistics server computer comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in its memory and operating on its processor and configured to receive event data regarding interactions received at a contact center and to provide day-level service level compliance data for each of a plurality of interaction types based on the received event data;

establishing a priority for the interaction at least by comparing the day-level service agreement compliance data for the determined interaction type to the day-level service agreement compliance data for each interaction type from the plurality of interaction types other than the determined interaction type; and

routing the interaction based at least in part on the established priority for the interaction;

wherein the day-level service compliance data for a specific interaction type is determined by:

determining whether a number of interactions of the specific interaction meets a type threshold; and

if the type threshold is met, computing, on a per-day or per-shift basis, a percentage of interactions of the specific interaction type that have been answered within a specific time limit.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the service level agreement compliance data further comprises an interaction count threshold, the interaction count threshold comprising at least a quantity of interactions of the interaction type required before considering the interaction type in day-level service level agreement routing decisions.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 3, 2022
From: NEWVOICEMEDIA LIMITED
To: VONAGE BUSINESS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 058879/0481 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY NAME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 039437 FRAME: 0841. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Feb 21, 2018
From: MCARDLE, CHRISTIAN; FAIRWEATHER, TOM; WADE, ALEX; SWINHOE, JAMES
To: NEWVOICEMEDIA LTD.
Reel/Frame 045273/0077 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2017
From: NEWVOICEMEDIA LIMITED
To: SILICON VALLEY BANK
Reel/Frame 044462/0691 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2016
From: MCARDLE, CHRISTIAN; FAIRWEATHER, TOM; WADE, ALEX; SWINHOE, JAMES
To: NEWVOICEMEDIA LIMITED
Reel/Frame 039437/0841 →
Continuity (6)
Continuation In Part 14754459 · Jun 29, 2015
Continuation 13835933 · Mar 15, 2013
Continuation In Part 13550587 · Jul 16, 2012
Provisional Application 62293311 · Feb 9, 2016
Provisional Application 61607909 · Mar 7, 2012
Related Publication 20160219151A1 · Jul 28, 2016