Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Call redirection to customer-facing user interface
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Application No.: US16024504Application Date: 2018-06-29
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Publication No.: US10341493B1Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Jeffrey Iacono
- Applicant: Square, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Square, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Square, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04M7/00
- IPC: H04M7/00 ; H04M3/42 ; G06Q30/06 ; G06Q10/10 ; H04M1/725

Abstract:
Techniques described herein are directed to utilizing an interposing phone number and associated phone tree to direct phone calls intended for a merchant to a customer-facing user interface that facilitates online requests to integrate multiple input channels (e.g., requests made by phone and requests made online) into a single output workflow. An interposing phone number provided by a third-party service can be associated with a merchant profile and an interposing phone tree can be implemented in association with an incoming call directed to the interposing phone number. A path of the interposing phone tree can cause a message including a link to be sent to a mobile device associated with the incoming call. Responsive to receiving an indication of activation of the link, an instruction can be sent to the mobile device causing a customer-facing user interface to be presented to enable a customer to interact with the merchant.
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