Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for providing customer activities while in queue
- Patent Title (中): 在队列中提供客户活动的系统和方法
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Application No.: US12177011Application Date: 2008-07-21
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Publication No.: US08229102B2Publication Date: 2012-07-24
- Inventor: Benjamin A. Knott , Theodore B. Pasquale , Kurt M. Joseph , Scott H. Mills , James T. Miller , Robert R. Bushey , John M. Martin
- Applicant: Benjamin A. Knott , Theodore B. Pasquale , Kurt M. Joseph , Scott H. Mills , James T. Miller , Robert R. Bushey , John M. Martin
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Jackson Walker L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04M3/00
- IPC: H04M3/00 ; H04M5/00

Abstract:
A system and method for providing customer activities while in queue allows for one or more customers to interact with one or more customer activities while waiting to speak with a live agent. The customers engage the customer activities while holding in a queue where the customer activities reduce the boredom, frustration, and perceived hold duration associated with holding to speak to a live agent. The customers are offered one or more options of the customer activities to interact with and the system and method monitors the customers' selections and interaction with the customer activities. As agents become available, each customer is transferred to an agent along with information regarding the customer's interaction with a selected customer activity. Upon completion of the interaction between the agent and the customer, the customer has the option to return to the selected customer activity and continue interacting with the selected customer activity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080273687A1 System and Method for Providing Customer Activities While in Queue Public/Granted day:2008-11-06
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