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US 10,313,524 B2Granted
System and method for web-based real time and out-of-band communications with contact centers
OwnerSlava Saykoinventor
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Abstract
A method for connecting a website user to a contact center includes: establishing a communication channel between a user and an agent of the contact center, the communication channel comprising a voice communication channel; establishing a supplemental channel between the user and the contact center for exchanging data between the user and the contact center; and storing the data exchanged in the supplemental channel in association with the communication channel.
Claims20
A method for connecting a website user to a contact center, the method comprising:
- monitoring activity of the website user on a website to derive information regarding the monitored activity of the user;
- receive a request from the website user, via the website, to connect to an agent of the contact center;
- determine whether the information regarding the monitored activity of the website user is sufficient to identify an intent of the website user;
- in response to determining that the information is sufficient to identify the intent of the user, routing the request to an agent of the agents identified based on the intent;
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- in response to determining that the information is insufficient to identify the intent of the user, prompting the user for additional information and routing the request to the agent identified based on the monitored activity and the additional information;
- establishing a communication channel between the website user and the agent of the contact center, the communication channel comprising a browser-based audio communication channel and being associated with a session identifier;
- establishing a supplemental communication channel in accordance with the session identifier, the supplemental communication channel being configured to transmit data from a web browser of the website user to the agent of the contact center in association with the communication channel;
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- displaying the supplemental communication channel and the website concurrently in the web browser of the website user.
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A system comprising:
- a call server configured to establish a plurality of communication channels between a plurality of users of a website and a plurality of agents of a contact center, each of the communication channels comprising a browser-based audio communication channel and being associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of session identifiers, a corresponding one of the plurality of users of the website, and a corresponding one of the agents of the contact center;
- a web monitor server configured to monitor activity of the users on the website;
- a routing server configured to route a plurality of requests for connections to the plurality of agents of the contact center, the routing server being configured to route a request of the requests by:
- receiving, from the web monitor server, information regarding the monitored activity of a user on the website;
- determining whether the information regarding the monitored activity of a user on the website is sufficient to identify an intent of the user;
- in response to determining that the information is sufficient to identify the intent of the user, routing the request to an agent of the agents based on the intent;
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- in response to determining that the information is insufficient to identify the intent of the user, prompting the user for additional information and routing the request to the agent based on the monitored activity and the additional information;
- a supplemental application server configured to:
- establish a plurality of supplemental communication channels between a plurality of web browsers associated with the plurality of users and the plurality of agents in accordance with corresponding ones of the session identifiers, the supplemental communication channels being configured to transmit data from the web browsers to the agents;
- and
- display the supplemental communication channels and the website concurrently in the web browsers of the users.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.