IP Library Granted Patent US 10,021,249
Granted Patent B2
US 10,021,249 · App. 15/472,127 · Granted Jul 10, 2018

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 LTD.
H04M3/5235H04M2203/558
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Patent No.
US 10,021,249
App. No.
15/472,127
Granted
Jul 10, 2018
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 (18)

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 that, when operating on its processor, causes its processor 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 that, when operating on its processor, cause the processor to:

receive an interaction via a network;

determine an interaction type for the interaction;

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

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

route the interaction based on the established priority for the interaction;

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

retrieving day-level service level agreement compliance data for the 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;

establishing a priority for the interaction at least by comparing the day-level service agreement compliance data for the interaction type to the day-level service agreement compliance data for each of a plurality of other interaction types; 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 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 (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 3, 2022
From: NEWVOICEMEDIA LIMITED
To: VONAGE BUSINESS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 058879/0481 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 14, 2018
From: MCARDLE, CHRISTIAN; FAIRWEATHER, TOM; WADE, ALEX; SWINHOE, JAMES
To: NEWVOICEMEDIA LTD.
Reel/Frame 046088/0613 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2017
From: NEWVOICEMEDIA LIMITED
To: SILICON VALLEY BANK
Reel/Frame 044462/0691 →
Continuity (10)
Continuation 15099583 · Apr 14, 2016
Continuation In Part 14754459 · Jun 29, 2015
Continuation 13835933 · Mar 15, 2013
Continuation In Part 13602048 · Aug 31, 2012
Continuation In Part 13550587 · Jul 16, 2012
Continuation In Part 13357502 · Jan 24, 2012
Provisional Application 62293311 · Feb 9, 2016
Provisional Application 61672240 · Jul 16, 2012
Provisional Application 61607909 · Mar 7, 2012
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