Patents by Inventor Edward Dale Victor McCoy

Edward Dale Victor McCoy 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: 10841428
    Abstract: In a method for managing a contact center, the method includes: receiving, by a processor, a first incoming communication from a communication device associated with a customer; determining, by the processor, the first incoming communication should not be routed to any agents from among a first group of agents; routing, by the processor, the first incoming communication to an electronic device operated by an agent from among a second group of agents; monitoring, by the processor, an outcome of an interaction between the agent and the customer; determining, by the processor, a quality level for the agent in handling the interaction with respect to the first incoming communication; and routing, by the processor, a second incoming communication to the second agent based on the quality level for the agent in handling the interaction with respect to the second incoming communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventor: Edward Dale Victor McCoy
  • Patent number: 10382629
    Abstract: A method of routing social media communication in a contact center system supporting an organization includes receiving, by a processor, a plurality of communications by one or more users from one or more social media platforms, determining, by the processor, valuation scores for the communications, filtering, by the processor, the communications based on a criteria, reorganizing, by the processor, the filtered communications based on the valuation scores, and routing, by the processor, the communications to a plurality of agents of the contact center system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Edward Dale Victor McCoy
  • Publication number: 20180191905
    Abstract: In a method for managing a contact center, the method includes: receiving, by a processor, a first incoming communication from a communication device associated with a customer; determining, by the processor, the first incoming communication should not be routed to any agents from among a first group of agents; routing, by the processor, the first incoming communication to an electronic device operated by an agent from among a second group of agents; monitoring, by the processor, an outcome of an interaction between the agent and the customer; determining, by the processor, a quality level for the agent in handling the interaction with respect to the first incoming communication; and routing, by the processor, a second incoming communication to the second agent based on the quality level for the agent in handling the interaction with respect to the second incoming communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventor: Edward Dale Victor McCoy
  • Publication number: 20180176380
    Abstract: A method of routing social media communication in a contact center system supporting an organization includes receiving, by a processor, a plurality of communications by one or more users from one or more social media platforms, determining, by the processor, valuation scores for the communications, filtering, by the processor, the communications based on a criteria, reorganizing, by the processor, the filtered communications based on the valuation scores, and routing, by the processor, the communications to a plurality of agents of the contact center system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Edward Dale Victor McCoy
  • Publication number: 20180174085
    Abstract: According to some example embodiments, in a method for managing a contact center, the method includes: receiving, by a processor, an instruction to initiate a plurality of outbound communications; identifying, by the processor, a plurality of time slots for each of a plurality of communication channels; assigning, by the processor, users to the time slots for one or more of the communication channels; and transmitting, by the processor, an outbound communication, by way of a corresponding communication channel, to each of the users assigned to one of the time slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Edward Dale Victor McCoy
  • Publication number: 20180165692
    Abstract: A method for managing social media communications of an organization supported by a contact center system includes receiving a communication by a user from a social media platform, determining a relevance of the communication to the organization, analyzing the communication to generate a suggested response to the communication, routing the communication to an agent of the contact center system, and displaying the suggested response on a display device of the agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventor: Edward Dale Victor McCoy
  • Publication number: 20180139328
    Abstract: In a method for managing a contact center, the method includes: receiving, by a processor, a first plurality of communications from a server during a training period; transmitting, by the processor, a pair of the communications to a device operated by a first contact center agent; receiving, by the processor, a signal from the device operated by the first contact center agent indicating a selection, by the first contact center agent, of a ranking between the pair of the communications; receiving, by the processor, a second plurality of communications from the server during a non-training period; reorganizing, by the processor, the second plurality of communications based on the selection of the ranking between the pair of communications to generate a reorganized second plurality of communications; and routing, by the processor during the non-training period, one or more of the reorganized second plurality of communications according to rank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: William Anthony Alford, Edward Dale Victor McCoy