WO1995008236A3 - Telephone call center - Google Patents

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WO1995008236A3
WO1995008236A3 PCT/US1994/010516 US9410516W WO9508236A3 WO 1995008236 A3 WO1995008236 A3 WO 1995008236A3 US 9410516 W US9410516 W US 9410516W WO 9508236 A3 WO9508236 A3 WO 9508236A3
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outbound
calls
agent
telephone
agents
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PCT/US1994/010516
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Danny Ramot
Jeffrey L Blamey
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Executone Inf Sys Inc
Danny Ramot
Jeffrey L Blamey
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Priority to AU77306/94A priority Critical patent/AU7730694A/en
Priority to CA002171937A priority patent/CA2171937C/en
Publication of WO1995008236A2 publication Critical patent/WO1995008236A2/en
Publication of WO1995008236A3 publication Critical patent/WO1995008236A3/en

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
    • H04M3/50—Centralised arrangements for answering calls; Centralised arrangements for recording messages for absent or busy subscribers ; Centralised arrangements for recording messages
    • H04M3/51—Centralised call answering arrangements requiring operator intervention, e.g. call or contact centers for telemarketing
    • H04M3/523—Centralised call answering arrangements requiring operator intervention, e.g. call or contact centers for telemarketing with call distribution or queueing
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/22—Arrangements for supervision, monitoring or testing
    • H04M3/36—Statistical metering, e.g. recording occasions when traffic exceeds capacity of trunks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
    • H04M3/50—Centralised arrangements for answering calls; Centralised arrangements for recording messages for absent or busy subscribers ; Centralised arrangements for recording messages
    • H04M3/51—Centralised call answering arrangements requiring operator intervention, e.g. call or contact centers for telemarketing
    • H04M3/5158—Centralised call answering arrangements requiring operator intervention, e.g. call or contact centers for telemarketing in combination with automated outdialling systems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2201/00—Electronic components, circuits, software, systems or apparatus used in telephone systems
    • H04M2201/38—Displays
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/22—Arrangements for supervision, monitoring or testing
    • H04M3/2281—Call monitoring, e.g. for law enforcement purposes; Call tracing; Detection or prevention of malicious calls
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
    • H04M3/50—Centralised arrangements for answering calls; Centralised arrangements for recording messages for absent or busy subscribers ; Centralised arrangements for recording messages
    • H04M3/51—Centralised call answering arrangements requiring operator intervention, e.g. call or contact centers for telemarketing
    • H04M3/5175—Call or contact centers supervision arrangements

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Business, Economics & Management (AREA)
  • Marketing (AREA)
  • Telephonic Communication Services (AREA)

Abstract

A telephone system provides dynamic inbound/outbound call management for a telemarketing campaign to automatically initiate outbound telephone calls for outbound agents, with outbound agents redesignated as inbound agents to answer inbound calls as needed according to at least one threshold of number or duration of waiting calls or number or duration of waiting inbound agents. Each agent's work area (35) includes a telephone station (40) having a display (30) and an input device (32). The telephone stations (40) are coupled to a server (20) via a network, and the telephone system includes appointment and calendar functions with pop-up menus. The server (20) is also coupled to an automatic dialer (50) and to a private branch exchange (60). When the server (20) assigns an outbound call to an outbound agent, the server sends information about the party called to the outbound agent's telephone station for display simultaneous with connecting the called party to the outbound agent. The telephone system allows each agent to control all telephone functions through the telephone station using the display (30) and input device (32). Each agent may dial and control additional calls using the input device (32), including central office calls, intercom calls and paging. As each outbound call is initiated or completed, system parameters are adjusted to maintain a predetermined minimum number of busy outbound agents. The adjustments also maintain the percentage of unattended outbound calls for which no outbound agent is available.
PCT/US1994/010516 1993-09-17 1994-09-16 Telephone call center WO1995008236A2 (en)

Priority Applications (2)

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AU77306/94A AU7730694A (en) 1993-09-17 1994-09-16 Apparatus and method for dynamic inbound/outbound call management and for scheduling appointments
CA002171937A CA2171937C (en) 1993-09-17 1994-09-16 Apparatus and method for dynamic inbound/outbound call management and for scheduling appointments

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US12330993A 1993-09-17 1993-09-17
US08/123,309 1993-09-17

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WO1995008236A3 true WO1995008236A3 (en) 1995-05-26

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