Patents by Inventor Alan McCord

Alan McCord has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11922923
    Abstract: A system and method for emotion-enhanced natural speech using dilated convolutional neural networks, wherein an audio processing server receives a raw audio waveform from a dilated convolutional artificial neural network, associates text-based emotion content markers with portions of the raw audio waveform to produce an emotion-enhanced audio waveform, and provides the emotion-enhanced audio waveform to the dilated convolutional artificial neural network for use as a new input data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VONAGE BUSINESS LIMITED
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt, Brian Galvin
  • Patent number: 11741484
    Abstract: A system and method for customer interaction and experience enhancement which automatically gathers direct and indirect customer communications about products and services, converts them to text where necessary, and analyzes the communications for sentiment and emotional content, and scores and displays the information in a manner conducive to making business decisions based on the customer sentiment and emotion, such as making changes to products or services, troubleshooting customer service interactions, and better marketing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: VONAGE BUSINESS LIMITED
    Inventor: Alan McCord
  • Patent number: 11734329
    Abstract: A system and method for improved categorization and sentiment analysis which is fed textual data such as transcriptions or collated data from a network enabled service, or some other source, which then segments textual data into chunks, parses the data chunks, and analyzes it using a plurality of techniques and metadata gathering methods to determine the sentiment of participating individuals concerning entities mentioned in the textual data and to categorize the discussions, for the purpose of taking actions to improve business outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: VONAGE BUSINESS LIMITED
    Inventors: Jonathan Kershaw, Ashley Unitt, Alan McCord
  • Patent number: 11501232
    Abstract: A system for automatically automatic workflow triggering using real-time analytics, comprising an analytics server that receives and analyzes interaction information and a workflow server that produces workflow events based on the analysis, sends workflow events to handlers for processing, retrieves workflow-related data, and produces workflow reports for review, and a method for automatically automatic workflow triggering using real-time analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: VONAGE BUSINESS LIMITED
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt, Mark Fellowes, Andrew Carson, Selma Ardelean
  • Patent number: 11178285
    Abstract: A system and method for an optimized, self-learning and self-organizing contact center has been developed. This system and method uses principles and tools of information theory, including the latent Dirichlet allocation which reduces information to specific predetermined topics and a distribution of topic related words to infer its hidden, generative underpinnings so to self-organize a contact center, infer its desired electronic versus human make up, and optimally route all customer requests to an electronic resource or a specific human agent best suited to respond to the request for maximal business value per interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NEWVOICEMEDIA, LTD.
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt
  • Publication number: 20200320974
    Abstract: A system and method for emotion-enhanced natural speech using dilated convolutional neural networks, wherein an audio processing server receives a raw audio waveform from a dilated convolutional artificial neural network, associates text-based emotion content markers with portions of the raw audio waveform to produce an emotion-enhanced audio waveform, and provides the emotion-enhanced audio waveform to the dilated convolutional artificial neural network for use as a new input data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt, Brian Galvin
  • Publication number: 20200286013
    Abstract: A system for automatically automatic workflow triggering using real-time analytics, comprising an analytics server that receives and analyzes interaction information and a workflow server that produces workflow events based on the analysis, sends workflow events to handlers for processing, retrieves workflow-related data, and produces workflow reports for review, and a method for automatically automatic workflow triggering using real-time analytics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt, Mark Fellowes, Andrew Carson, Selma Ardelean
  • Publication number: 20200265076
    Abstract: A system and method for improved categorization and sentiment analysis which is fed textual data such as transcriptions or collated data from a network enabled service, or some other source, which then segments textual data into chunks, parses the data chunks, and analyzes it using a plurality of techniques and metadata gathering methods to determine the sentiment of participating individuals concerning entities mentioned in the textual data and to categorize the discussions, for the purpose of taking actions to improve business outcomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Kershaw, Ashley Unitt, Alan McCord
  • Publication number: 20200210900
    Abstract: A system and method for an optimized, self-learning and self-organizing contact center has been developed. This system and method uses principles and tools of information theory, including the latent Dirichlet allocation which reduces information to specific predetermined topics and a distribution of topic related words to infer its hidden, generative underpinnings so to self-organize a contact center, infer its desired electronic versus human make up, and optimally route all customer requests to an electronic resource or a specific human agent best suited to respond to the request for maximal business value per interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt
  • Publication number: 20200160356
    Abstract: A system and method for customer interaction and experience enhancement which automatically gathers direct and indirect customer communications about products and services, converts them to text where necessary, and analyzes the communications for sentiment and emotional content, and scores and displays the information in a manner conducive to making business decisions based on the customer sentiment and emotion, such as making changes to products or services, troubleshooting customer service interactions, and better marketing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Alan McCord
  • Patent number: 10586175
    Abstract: A system and method for an optimized, self-learning and self-organizing contact center has been developed. This system and method uses principles and tools of information theory, including the latent Dirichlet allocation which reduces information to specific predetermined topics and a distribution of topic related words to infer its hidden, generative underpinnings so to self-organize a contact center, infer its desired electronic versus human make up, and optimally route all customer requests to an electronic resource or a specific human agent best suited to respond to the request for maximal business value per interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NEWVOICEMEDIA LTD.
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt
  • Patent number: 10565244
    Abstract: A system and method for improved categorization and sentiment analysis which is fed textual data such as transcriptions or collated data from a network enabled service, or some other source, which then segments textual data into chunks, parses the data chunks, and analyzes it using a plurality of techniques and metadata gathering methods to determine the sentiment of participating individuals concerning entities mentioned in the textual data and to categorize the discussions, for the purpose of taking actions to improve business outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NEWVOICEMEDIA LTD.
    Inventors: Jonathan Kershaw, Ashley Unitt, Alan McCord
  • Patent number: 10332283
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to re-physicalization of captured physical signals and/or sensor measurements and to generation of user-perceivable output content from a computing device based at least in part on the re-physicalization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia of America Corporation
    Inventor: Alan McCord
  • Publication number: 20190171660
    Abstract: A system and method for improved categorization and sentiment analysis which is fed textual data such as transcriptions or collated data from a network enabled service, or some other source, which then segments textual data into chunks, parses the data chunks, and analyzes it using a plurality of techniques and metadata gathering methods to determine the sentiment of participating individuals concerning entities mentioned in the textual data and to categorize the discussions, for the purpose of taking actions to improve business outcomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Kershaw, Ashley Unitt, Alan McCord
  • Patent number: 10311454
    Abstract: A system and method for customer interaction and experience enhancement which automatically gathers direct and indirect customer communications about products and services, converts them to text where necessary, and analyzes the communications for sentiment and emotional content, and scores and displays the information in a manner conducive to making business decisions based on the customer sentiment and emotion, such as making changes to products or services, troubleshooting customer service interactions, and better marketing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: NewVoiceMedia Ltd.
    Inventor: Alan McCord
  • Publication number: 20190050875
    Abstract: A system and method for customer interaction and experience enhancement which automatically gathers direct and indirect customer communications about products and services, converts them to text where necessary, and analyzes the communications for sentiment and emotional content, and scores and displays the information in a manner conducive to making business decisions based on the customer sentiment and emotion, such as making changes to products or services, troubleshooting customer service interactions, and better marketing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventor: Alan McCord
  • Publication number: 20180373744
    Abstract: A system for using conversational similarity for dimension reduction in deep analytics, comprising a self-learning interaction optimizer that receives string-based data from a contact center and analyzes it to produce a plurality of information similarity vectors, provides the vectors to a neural network and receives output vectors from the neural network, and produces context data from the output vectors and associates the context data with the original string-based data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt
  • Patent number: 10162844
    Abstract: A system for using conversational similarity for dimension reduction in deep analytics, comprising a self-learning interaction optimizer that receives string-based data from a contact center and analyzes it to produce a plurality of information similarity vectors, provides the vectors to a neural network and receives output vectors from the neural network, and produces context data from the output vectors and associates the context data with the original string-based data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NEWVOICEMEDIA LTD.
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt
  • Patent number: 9972014
    Abstract: A system for automatically automatic workflow triggering using real-time analytics, comprising an analytics server that receives and analyzes interaction information and a workflow server that produces workflow events based on the analysis, sends workflow events to handlers for processing, retrieves workflow-related data, and produces workflow reports for review, and a method for automatically automatic workflow triggering using real-time analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: NewVoiceMedia Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt, Mark Fellowes, Andrew Carson, Selma Ardelean
  • Publication number: 20180121766
    Abstract: A system and method for enhanced human/machine workforce management using reinforcement learning, comprising a reinforcement learning server that produces a partially-observable Markov chain model, and an optimization server that uses the partially-observable Markov chain model to select work items and assign them to contact center resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Alan McCord, Ashley Unitt