Patents Assigned to West Corporation
  • Patent number: 10694036
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of applying user profile information to a customized application are disclosed. One example method of operation may include receiving an inquiry message or call from a user device, identifying and authorizing the user from inquiry message information received from the inquiry message, retrieving a user profile comprising at least one user preference, applying the at least one user preference to a user call processing application, and transmitting menu options to the user device based on the applied at least user preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventor: Craig A. Webster
  • Patent number: 10694025
    Abstract: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor perform receiving a telephony connection request at a location in a telephony network, the location separated from an intended recipient of the telephony connection request by a target telephony network, determining addressing information regarding the intended recipient, the addressing information including at least routing information or a phone number, determining a status characteristic of the intended recipient based on the addressing information, based on the status characteristic, and determining whether the intended recipient would successfully receive the telephony connection request if the telephony connection request was forwarded to the intended recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas L. Davis
  • Patent number: 10652192
    Abstract: In a system, method and computer readable medium for managing message delivery, message delivery jobs are dynamically prioritized into a plurality of priority queues based on a delivery timeframe for each job. A delivery manager controls delivery of the message delivery jobs through a number of delivery channels and ports. A priority manager reviews jobs pending in the queues. If the priority manager determines that a message delivery job will not be completed within its delivery timeframe, the priority manager assigns a higher priority to the message delivery job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Douglas Pulford, Bruce Pollock, Ian James Juliano, James P. Breen
  • Patent number: 10652346
    Abstract: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor perform receiving a list including a plurality of possible recipients of telephony network connections, the recipients identified by a telephony number, determining a status characteristic of the intended recipient based on the addressing information, based on the status characteristic, determining whether the intended recipient would successfully receive a telephony connection request if the telephony connection request was forwarded to the intended recipient, and indicating the determination of whether the intended recipient would successfully receive the telephony connection request on the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: WEST CORPORATION
    Inventor: Douglas L. Davis
  • Patent number: 10645215
    Abstract: Personal information, such as professional information normally associated with a business card may be identified and appended to a messaging sequence to provide automated user profile updates. One example embodiment may transmitting an initiation message from a service provider to a user device to initiate a communication session, transmitting a request message to the user device to accept contact information associated with the service provider, receiving a confirmation message responsive to the request message, transmitting the contact information responsive to receiving confirmation of the request, and automatically initiating a contact information update on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Kellan Stec, James K. Boutcher
  • Patent number: 10635805
    Abstract: A system and method for Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) access control for a mobile device. An entity requesting to utilize MRCP resources establishes a relationship with a MRCP resource provider. The MRCP resource provider maintains account information for the entity, and the entity receives a unique account number for identification purposes. The entity requests from the MRCP resource provider generation of at least one MRCP access PIN associated with the account information, and provides a data string associated with the MRCP access PIN to the MRCP resource provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Fox
  • Patent number: 10630841
    Abstract: Agents operating at call centers or other customer support service networks may assist large numbers of customers consecutively and in a dynamic manner. One example may include populating a portion of a first agent user interface of a first agent device with a first customer profile, identifying a second agent device currently assigned a second customer call with second customer call information related to the first customer call information, comparing the first customer call information to the second customer call information, determining the second customer call information exceeds a relevancy threshold when compared to first customer call information, populating a portion of a second agent user interface of the second agent device with the portion of the first agent user interface, and updating the first agent user interface by removing the first customer call information and providing another customer call to the first user agent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Dirienzi, Jonathan Levine, Eric Weaver
  • Patent number: 10630839
    Abstract: A Mobile Voice Self Service (MVSS) mobile system that includes an MVSS mobile device, on which a VoiceXML browser is implemented directly. The VoiceXML browser may request a VoiceXML application from a VoiceXML application server and process it. A client system may include the VoiceXML application server that the VoiceXML application is requested from. Upon request, the VoiceXML application may deliver the requested VoiceXML application to the VoiceXML application browser. A vendor media resource system may provide advanced Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) services, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Text-To-Speech (TTS), to the VoiceXML application that is being processed by the VoiceXML application browser. A call data manager may also be implemented on the MVSS mobile device and may provide call data that, in conjunction with data from the VoiceXML application server, may authorize access to advanced Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Fox
  • Patent number: 10623570
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer program receive a request message from a mobile device to connect with an agent and authenticate the request message and provisioning a database for enabled services and service location. A service provider is identified and selected from a plurality of service providers. As a result, the request message is transmitted to the service provider in order to determine availability of the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Mateer, James K. Boutcher, Jesse Andersen
  • Patent number: 10623328
    Abstract: One example method of operation may include one or more of receiving messages from different clients, storing the messages in a queue, identifying the clients assigned to the messages, assigning the messages to different threads in a thread pool based on the identified clients, and processing the messages via the different threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Karthika Balachandran, Kerry McMurtry, Jason Randall Nash, Subhash Parthibhan
  • Patent number: 10614169
    Abstract: Providing unique prompts for script, comprising sequencing, by a processor, at least one script in a design order having at least one prompt, identifying, by the processor, duplicate prompts of the at least one prompt, identifying, by the processor, unique prompts of the at least one prompt, translation tagging, by the processor, the identified unique prompts and replicating, by the processor, the translation tagged unique prompts to the identified duplicate prompts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: WEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terry Olson, John B. Bohan, Mark L. Sempek
  • Patent number: 10616166
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing notifications to a customer is disclosed. One example method of operation may include identifying a notification event associated with a customer via a customer management module and retrieving a customer preference record and determining a notification device preference for a customer Internet protocol (IP) device included in the customer preference record. The method may also include transmitting the notification event to the customer's IP device based on the notification device preference, the notification event may include a live agent support option which may be accessed in the event that the automated support options fail to satisfy the customer's questions and concerns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Cordell, James K. Boutcher
  • Patent number: 10601927
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for configuring context aware sessions. A first session is provided using a first communication channel Contextual information of the first session is used to provide a second session using a second communication channel, wherein the second session is associated with the first session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Michael T. Mateer, James K. Boutcher, Jesse Andersen
  • Patent number: 10599674
    Abstract: An apparatus, computer-implemented method, and computer program are provided. In one embodiment, data is transferred from a database to a staging table in another database. The data is extracted from the staging table in order to transform the data, and the extracted data is transmitted to a database of another computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Jaikishan Maru, Mark J. Holmes
  • Patent number: 10601743
    Abstract: A message receiving, intercepting and processing method and corresponding application and device may provide receiving a message at a message processing server, pre-processing the message to determine a particular contextual classification associated with a word included in the message and assigning the message to a predefined message bucket that has a number of automated responses. The method may also include identifying an automated response to the message that includes contextual information that is based on the parsed word from the message and processing the message to determine whether to generate the automated response and transmit the automated response to an end user device based on a confidence score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Caldwell, Jeffrey William Cordell, James K. Boutcher
  • Patent number: 10594799
    Abstract: Monitoring a particular home or place of business for activity may provide a remote subscriber with updated information regarding feedback from sensors at the remote location. One example method of operation may include receiving sensor data from one or more sensors that have been activated at the remote location, identifying a subscriber account associated with the sensor data, matching the sensor data with a predefined sensor identifier stored in the subscriber account, and generating a notification to include the predefined sensor identifier and a time reference indicator associated with a time the sensor data was activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Eileen Clare Frost, James K. Boutcher
  • Patent number: 10594840
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a bot communication request from a user device, the bot communication request comprising content from on one or more of a spoken utterance and a typed input received via the user device, retrieving configuration information comprising credentials and unique communication protocol information for each of a plurality of bot services, automatically determining a bot service for responding to the bot communication request from among the plurality of bot services, and establishing a communication channel with the determined bot service based on unique credentials of the determined bot service, and transmitting the bot communication request to the determined bot service via the established communication channel based on unique communication protocol information of the determined bot service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Darby, Geoffrey A. Finch, Sammy Sufian
  • Patent number: 10586233
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for authenticating a customer in an online transaction. In one embodiment, a method includes initiating, in conjunction with an online transaction, an authentication query via a communication device associated with a customer in the online transaction, receiving customer authentication data from the communication device, sending the customer authentication data to a third-party authentication server to authenticate the customer using the customer authentication data, receiving a determination from the third-party authentication server whether the customer is authenticated, and allowing the online transaction to proceed in response to receiving the determination that the customer is authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Trent Larson, Chad Lynn Brockman, April Lynn Peek, Eric A. Grun, Kenneth A. Marr
  • Patent number: 10587755
    Abstract: Agents operating at call centers or other customer support service networks may assist large numbers of customers consecutively and in a dynamic manner. One example may include receiving a plurality of calls for customer service support from a corresponding plurality of customer devices at a call routing server, retrieving user profiles associated with the plurality of calls and identifying call information for the plurality of calls, determining at least one call is associated with a first user profile having a task deadline approaching sooner than the other user profiles, and establishing a priority for the at least one call to be processed by an agent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Dirienzi, Jonathan Levine, Eric Weaver
  • Patent number: 10582045
    Abstract: Providing ported and disconnected wireless number distinction, comprising: receiving, by at least one processor, an aggregator data file containing at least one of at least one wireless number that has been ported and at least one wireless number that has been disconnected, accessing, by the at least one processor, a number portability database, receiving, by the at least one processor, at least one of text and voice call opted-in data file, determining, by the at least one processor, a conjunction of the aggregator data file and number portability database, the conjunction defining a ported data file, determining, by the at least one processor, a commonality of the at least one of a text and a voice call opted-in data file and the ported data file, the commonality defining a ported opted-in data file, recording, in at least one memory, a status of the commonality of the ported opted-in data file as opted-in wireless numbers, wherein the at least one processor and at least one memory are communicably coupled
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventor: Rebekah Johnson