IP Library Granted Patent US 11,659,093
Granted Patent B2
US 11,659,093 · App. 17/837,094 · Granted May 23, 2023

Systems and methods for prioritizing emergency calls

Inventors: Roman Frenkel (Ashdod, IL); Tal Raskin (Ramle, IL); Adi Ben Zeev (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, IL); Stav Mishory (Givat Hen, IL); Dan Teplitski (Tel Aviv, IL); Hadas Katz (Givatayim, IL)
Assignee: NICE LTD.
H04M3/5235G06F40/295G10L15/02G10L15/26H04M3/5116H04M3/5166H04M3/5183H04M2201/405
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Patent No.
US 11,659,093
App. No.
17/837,094
Granted
May 23, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems for and methods of determining the priority of a call interaction include receiving a call interaction from a call center; validating, by a validation and transcription engine, that the call interaction is authentic; converting, by the validation and transcription engine, the call interaction into text; extracting, by a data calculation engine, organization, location, and time information from the text; calculating, by the data calculation engine, a priority of the call interaction from the extracted information and the text by determining an important of words in the text and correlating the words to a priority class using a pre-trained algorithm that is trained on emergency-type and emergency services-type language; determining that the call interaction should be transmitted to a queue of the call center for initial handling by a call center agent; and transmitting the call interaction, the calculated priority, and the extracted information to the call center.

Claims (42)

1. A call priority analysis system comprising:

a processor and a computer readable medium operably coupled thereto, the computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions stored in association therewith that are accessible to, and executable by, the processor, to perform operations which comprise:

receiving a call interaction from a call center;

validating, by a validation and transcription engine, that the call interaction is authentic;

converting, by the validation and transcription engine, the call interaction into text;

extracting, by a data calculation engine, organization, location, and time information from the text;

calculating, by the data calculation engine, a priority of the call interaction from the extracted information and the text, wherein calculating the priority of the call interaction comprises determining an importance of words in the text and correlating the words in the text to a priority class by using a pre-trained algorithm that is trained on emergency-type and emergency services-type language;

determining that the call interaction should be transmitted to a queue of the call center for initial handling by a call center agent; and

transmitting the call interaction, the calculated priority, and the extracted information to the call center.

2. The call priority analysis system of claim 1 , wherein the pre-trained algorithm is pre-trained on hand-crafted probabilistic grammar.

3. The call priority analysis system of claim 1 , wherein the pre-trained algorithm comprises a trained tree algorithm.

4. The call priority analysis system of claim 3 , wherein the trained tree algorithm comprises a trained gradient-boosted tree algorithm.

5. The call priority analysis system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise saving the calculated priority and the extracted information in a database.

6. The call priority analysis system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise transmitting the calculated priority and the extracted information to an emergency service.

7. The call priority analysis system of claim 1 , wherein validating the call interaction comprises analyzing an amount of noise on the call interaction, detecting whether there is laughter on the call interaction, evaluating words in the call interaction, or any combination thereof.

8. The call priority analysis system of claim 1 , wherein extracting the organization, location, and time information comprises applying a named entity recognition (NER) model to the text.

9. The call priority analysis system of claim 1 , wherein determining the importance of the words in the text comprises applying term frequency-inverse document frequency (TFIDF) to the text.

10. A method of determining the priority of a call interaction, which comprises:

receiving a call interaction from a call center;

validating, by a validation and transcription engine, that the call interaction is authentic;

converting, by the validation and transcription engine, the call interaction into text;

extracting, by a data calculation engine, organization, location, and time information from the text;

calculating, by the data calculation engine, a priority of the call interaction from the extracted information and the text, wherein calculating the priority of the call interaction comprises determining an importance of words in the text and correlating the words in the text to a priority class by using a pre-trained algorithm that is trained on emergency-type and emergency services-type language;

determining that the call interaction should be transmitted to a queue of the call center for initial handling by a call center agent; and

transmitting the call interaction, the calculated priority, and the extracted information to the call center.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the pre-trained algorithm is pre-trained on hand-crafted probabilistic grammar.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the pre-trained algorithm comprises a trained tree algorithm.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the trained tree algorithm comprises a trained gradient-boosted tree algorithm.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein extracting the organization, location, and time information comprises applying a named entity recognition (NER) model to the text.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein determining the importance of the words in the text comprises applying term frequency-inverse document frequency (TFIDF) to the text.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions executable by a processor to perform operations which comprise:

receiving a call interaction from a call center;

validating, by a validation and transcription engine, that the call interaction is authentic;

converting, by the validation and transcription engine, the call interaction into text;

extracting, by a data calculation engine, organization, location, and time information from the text;

calculating, by the data calculation engine, a priority of the call interaction from the extracted information and the text, wherein calculating the priority of the call interaction comprises determining an importance of words in the text and correlating the words in the text to a priority class by using a pre-trained algorithm that is trained on emergency-type and emergency services-type language;

determining that the call interaction should be transmitted to a queue of the call center for initial handling by a call center agent; and

transmitting the call interaction, the calculated priority, and the extracted information to the call center.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the pre-trained algorithm is pre-trained on hand-crafted probabilistic grammar.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the pre-trained algorithm comprises a trained tree algorithm.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the trained tree algorithm comprises a trained gradient-boosted tree algorithm.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein extracting the organization, location, and time information comprises applying a named entity recognition (NER) model to the text.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2026
From: NICE LTD; NICE SYSTEMS INC.; NICE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES INC.; INCONTACT, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 074986/0208 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2022
From: FRENKEL, ROMAN; RASKIN, TAL; ZEEV, ADI BEN; MISHORY, STAV; TEPLITSKI, DAN; KATZ, HADAS
To: NICE LTD.
Reel/Frame 060765/0409 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17197742 · Mar 10, 2021
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