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US 8,078,605 B2Granted
User-specific contact apparatus and method
AssigneeInsideSales.com, Inc.
InventorsDaniel E. Telschow, David Randal Elkington, Thomas Jeffrey Purdy
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Abstract
An apparatus and method are disclosed for detecting online activity by a user and contacting the user in conjunction with a preferred response plan.
Claims10
A system for detecting user activity and connecting active users to agents matching skill sets, the system comprising:
- a connection device including processing facilities for executing software and further including network facilities for electronic communication over a network, said connection device further including a storage device group containing at least one storage device operable to contain operating system files and applications;
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- instructions stored to said storage device group, said instructions being further executable by said processing facilities to achieve the functions of:
- (i) receiving contact information for a user, the contact information including a telephone number,
- (ii) storing contact information received for a user in a user-specific profile,
- (iii) creating a user-specific access token corresponding to a user from which contact information has been received,
- (iv) transmitting a user-specific access token to its corresponding user by way of said network facilities,
- (v) selecting a response plan for a user corresponding to a created user-specific access token, the selected response plan specifying a delay time and an agent skill set,
- (vi) following said transmission, receiving by way of said network facilities at times of user activity the user-specific access token corresponding to the active user,
- (vii) upon reception of a user-specific access token, identifying the response plan selected for the user corresponding to the received user-specific access token,
- (viii) upon identification of a response plan, executing a delay time specified by the identified response plan selected for the user of the corresponding received user-specific access token,
- (ix) following reception of a user-specific access token, retrieving the telephone number included within the received contact information for the user of the corresponding received user-specific access token,
- (x) following the execution of a delay time specified by an identified response plan, executing a step to initiate a telephone call to the retrieved telephone number included within the received contact information for the user of the corresponding received user-specific access token, and
- (xi) following the identification of a response plan, selecting an agent having a skill set specified by the identified response plan.
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A method for detecting user activity and connecting active users to agents matching skill sets, said method utilizing a network and a storage device, said method comprising:
- receiving contact information for a user, the contact information including a telephone number;
- storing contact information received for a user in a user-specific profile on the storage device;
- transmitting a user-specific access token to its corresponding user over the network;
- selecting a response plan for a user corresponding to a transmitted user-specific access token, the selected response plan specifying a delay time and an agent skill set;
- receiving over the network at times of user activity the user-specific access token corresponding to the active user;
- identifying the response plan selected for the user corresponding to the received user-specific access token;
- upon identification of a response plan, executing a delay time specified by the identified response plan selected for the user of the corresponding received user-specific access token;
- retrieving the telephone number included within the stored contact information for the user of the corresponding received user-specific access token;
- following the execution of a delay time specified by an identified response plan, placing a telephone call to the telephone number included within the received contact information for the user of the corresponding received user-specific access token;
- selecting an agent having a skill set specified by the identified response plan;
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- connecting the user to the selected agent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.