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Systems and methods for providing telephone prompts to a client based on web site activities of the client

US8634540B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateNov 13, 2008
Grant dateJan 21, 2014
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Expiry dateDec 3, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M2203/408
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Activities performed by a client at a site of an organization are monitored and stored in an activity database. A call is thereafter received from the client at a telephone system of the organization, which performs an identification of the client. The identification is provided to a cross-channel router as a request for a prediction on where the call from the client should be routed, and the router indexes into the activity database based on the identification of the client to obtain the monitored activity of the client. The router employs predicting rules and the obtained activity to generate a prediction of client needs, and returns the generated prediction to the telephone-based system, which presents prioritized telephone prompts to the client according to the returned prediction to help in routing the call.

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