Abstract:
A telephony call center has agent workstations having telephones connected to station-side ports of a telephone switching apparatus adapted to receive and switch conventional telephone calls to the telephones, and also computer platforms connected on a local area network (LAN). A processor also connected on the LAN has a wide area network (WAN) port and is adapted to receive and distribute computer-simulated telephone calls from the WAN to computer platforms at the agent stations. At individual agent stations the telephone and computer platform is connected by a Telephone Application Programming Interface (TAPI)-compliant bridge. Status of calls of both types at agent workstations is communicated to a network-level router by the processor having a WAN connection, which may also receive computer-simulated calls. The router may then make routing decisions based on agent status relative to both kinds of calls.
Abstract:
A call center system supports remote agent stations (126) through a network (125) by establishing a data link (119, 129) between a computer platform (131) at the remote agent station (126) and a computer-telephony integration (CTI) processor (111) connected to a telephony switch (109) at a call center (101) and switching incoming calls from the call center (101) to a telephone (133) at the remote agent station (126) while sending data pertaining to the calls via the data link (119, 129) to the computer platform (131) at the remote agent station (126) to be displayed.
Abstract:
A client-server telephone call router system as part of a customer premises system has a client-server router adapted to execute on a telephony switch, such as a public branch exchange (PBX) or other telephony switch, or on a processor connected by CTI link to a telephony switch. The telephony switch or processor executing the router is connected to a local area network (LAN) that also interconnects computer workstations proximate to telephones connected to the telephony switch. Client user interface applications run on the computer workstations, allowing clients to edit routing rules for the router, which has a list of routing rules keyed to users and workstations of the customer premises system. The editing rules are kept by the router in portions dedicated to individual users. With this system a user can edit at a workstation on the LAN his/her own routing rules, and transmit the edits to the client-server router where the rules will be followed to route calls for that user and protocol.
Abstract:
A call center system supports remote agent stations through a network by establishing a data link between a computer platform at the remote agent station and a CTI-processor connected to a telephony switch at the call center, and switching incoming calls from the call center to a telephone at the remote agent station while sending data pertaining to the calls via the data link to the computer platform at the remote agent station to be displayed. Data pertaining to calls is retrieved from a data base at the call center and sent via the data link to be displayed on a video display at the remote agent station. The data can include scripts for an agent at the remote station. Call center services are supported by cooperation between software at the CTI processor and the computer platform at the remote station. In one embodiment the data link, once established, is kept open while calls continue to be switched to the remote station. In another, after an initial log in, dial up is done from the remote station upon detecting calls from the call center by a TAPI compliant device, and a reduced log in is performed at the CTI processor to save time. In a third alternative, the CTI processor, via a modem bank adapted for dialing, establishes the data connection each time a call is switched from the call center to the remote station. A plurality of remote stations may be thus supported.
Abstract:
A call center system supports remote agent stations (126) through a network (125) by establishing a data link (119, 129) between a computer platform (131) at the remote agent station (126) and a computer-telephony integration (CTI) processor (111) connected to a telephony switch (109) at a call center (101) and switching incoming calls from the call center (101) to a telephone (133) at the remote agent station (126) while sending data pertaining to the calls via the data link (119, 129) to the computer platform (131) at the remote agent station (126) to be displayed.
Abstract:
A call center system supports remote agent stations (126) through a network (125) by establishing a data link (119, 129) between a computer platform (131) at the remote agent station (126) and a computer- telephony integration (CTI) processor (111) connected to a telephony switch (109) at a call center (101) and switching incoming calls from the call center (101) to a telephone (133) at the remote agent station (126) while sending data pertaining to the calls via the data link (119, 129) to the computer platform (131) at the remote agent station (126) to be displayed.
Abstract:
An agent station for a call-in center has a telephone for an agent's use connected by a communication link with a computer workstation adpated for monitoring transaction and status for the telephone and calls received on the telephone. In a preferred embodiment the computer workstation is connected on a local area network (LAN) to a processor running and instance of a telephony server (T-Server) application, and the computer workstation reports telephone transaction and status data to the T-Server, which uses the data to effect call routing at a remote telephony switch. In some embodiments the computer workstations are personal computers (PCs) and the communication link between telephones and PCs is a PC-compatible serial data link.