IP Library Granted Patent US 10,986,230
Granted Patent B1
US 10,986,230 · App. 16/685,353 · Granted Apr 20, 2021

Method and apparatus to capture, analyze, organize, and present support chat information

Inventors: Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhian, IN); Avinash Vishwanath (Bangalore, IN)
Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
H04M3/5191G06Q30/016H04L51/046H04M3/5322
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Patent No.
US 10,986,230
App. No.
16/685,353
Granted
Apr 20, 2021
Kind
B1
Abstract

An information handling system receives messages of a chat conversation, and may convert the messages into request and response pairs. The information handling system may also determine customer reaction determinations for respective ones of the request and response pairs, integrate the request and response pairs and the customer reaction determinations into a customer reaction timeline, and generate a chatbook from the customer reaction timeline.

Claims (36)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at an information handling system (IHS), a plurality of messages of a chat conversation;

converting, at the IHS, the messages into request and response pairs;

determining, at the IHS, customer reaction determinations for respective ones of the request and response pairs;

integrating, at the IHS, the request and response pairs and the customer reaction determinations into a customer reaction timeline; and

generating, at the IHS, a chatbook from the customer reaction timeline, wherein the chatbook is created specifically for the chat conversation, wherein the chatbook includes a plurality of pages corresponding, respectively, to the request and response pairs.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the customer reactions determinations is performed using natural language processing (NLP) at the IHS.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

applying best-practices recommendations at points along the customer reaction timeline.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying an unresolved query among the messages, wherein the unresolved query was not resolved during the chat conversation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the chatbook comprises a customer reaction indicator, the customer reaction indicator selected from a group consisting of a customer dissatisfaction indicator, a customer neutrality indicator, and a customer satisfaction indicator.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the customer reaction timeline is generated in real time during the chat conversation.

7. An information handling system (IHS) comprising:

memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to receive a plurality of messages of a chat conversation, to convert the messages into request and response pairs, to determine customer reaction determinations for respective ones of the request and response pairs, to integrate the request and response pairs and the customer reaction determinations into a customer reaction timeline, and to generate a chatbook from the customer reaction timeline, wherein the chatbook is created specifically for the chat conversation, wherein the chatbook includes a plurality of pages corresponding, respectively, to the request and response pairs.

8. The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the customer reactions determinations are performed using natural language processing at the IHS.

9. The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to apply best-practices recommendations at points along the customer reaction timeline.

10. The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to identify an unresolved query among the messages, wherein the unresolved query was not resolved during the chat conversation.

11. The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the chatbook comprises a customer reaction indicator, the customer reaction indicator selected from a group consisting of a customer dissatisfaction indicator, a customer neutrality indicator, and a customer satisfaction indicator.

12. The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the customer reaction timeline is generated in real time during the chat conversation.

13. A method comprising:

receiving, at an information handling system (IHS), a plurality of messages of a chat conversation;

converting, at the IHS, the messages into request and response pairs;

determining, at the IHS, customer reaction determinations for respective ones of the request and response pairs;

integrating, at the IHS, the request and response pairs and the customer reaction determinations into a customer reaction timeline; and

generating a chatbook from the customer reaction timeline, wherein the chatbook is created specifically for the chat conversation, the chatbook expressing the request and response pairs as text bubbles.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the determining the customer reactions determinations is performed using natural language processing at the IHS.

15. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

applying best-practices recommendations at points along the customer reaction timeline.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the chatbook comprises a plurality of pages, the pages corresponding, respectively, to the request and response pairs.

17. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

identifying an unresolved query among the messages, wherein the unresolved query was not resolved during the chat conversation.

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein the chatbook comprises a customer reaction indicator, the customer reaction indicator selected from a group consisting of a customer dissatisfaction indicator, a customer neutrality indicator, and a customer satisfaction indicator.

19. The method of claim 13 wherein the text bubbles comprise one or more customer chat communication bubbles.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the text bubbles comprise one or more technical support advisor chat communication bubbles.

Assignments (9)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (052216/0758) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 060438/0680 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053311/0169) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 060438/0742 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053546/0001) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL MARKETING L.P. (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.); DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; DELL MARKETING CORPORATION (SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC. AND WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.); EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 071642/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST AF REEL 052243 FRAME 0773 Recorded Nov 2, 2021
From: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 058001/0152 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 5, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 053311/0169 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 22, 2020
From: CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES INC.; DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL MARKETING L.P.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
Reel/Frame 053546/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 26, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
Reel/Frame 052243/0773 →
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (NOTES) Recorded Mar 24, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 052216/0758 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 15, 2019
From: SETHI, PARMINDER SINGH; VISHWANATH, AVINASH
To: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
Reel/Frame 051022/0090 →
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