Patents by Inventor Ed Murray

Ed Murray 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: 8117064
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a content recorder configured to record content of plurality of agent interactions; an analytics component configured to perform speech analysis on at least a portion of the agent interactions, and further configured to evaluate the interactions based on a plurality of criteria, producing a score; and a quality monitor configured to associate the analyzed interactions with interaction metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Gordon Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Patent number: 8112298
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an integrated process for optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, the method comprises: defining contact center business goals; planning at least one campaign to implement the goals; scheduling and deploying a workforce in accordance with the campaign to produce agent-customer interactions; measuring agent performance on the interactions to produce quality metrics; analyzing the metrics to produce a rating; combining quality metrics to produce performance indicators; and using the performance indicators in the planning step of a second campaign or another iteration of the first campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Gordon Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Patent number: 8108237
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a workforce manager comprising a scheduler and a tracking function; and a lesson assignment function configured to receive at least one indicator of performance of the agent, and further configured to assign a lesson to the agent based on the at least one indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Gordon Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Publication number: 20080181389
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a workforce manager comprising a scheduler and a tracking function; and a lesson assignment function configured to receive at least one indicator of performance of the agent, and further configured to assign a lesson to the agent based on the at least one indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Gordon Nies, Thomas Lverly
  • Publication number: 20070206768
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a workforce manager comprising a scheduler and a tracking function; and a lesson assignment function configured to receive at least one indicator of performance of the agent, and further configured to assign a lesson to the agent based on the at least one indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Nies, Thomas Lverly
  • Publication number: 20070198322
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an integrated process for optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, the method comprises: defining contact center business goals; planning at least one campaign to implement the goals; scheduling and deploying a workforce in accordance with the campaign to produce agent-customer interactions; measuring agent performance on the interactions to produce quality metrics; analyzing the metrics to produce a rating; combining quality metrics to produce performance indicators; and using the performance indicators in the planning step of a second campaign or another iteration of the first campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Publication number: 20070198323
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a content recorder configured to record content of plurality of agent interactions; an analytics component configured to perform speech analysis on at least a portion of the agent interactions, and further configured to evaluate the interactions based on a plurality of criteria, producing a score; and a quality monitor configured to associate the analyzed interactions with interaction metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Nies, Thomas Lyerly