Patents by Inventor Leonard Michael Newnham

Leonard Michael Newnham 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: 11451668
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Publication number: 20210250444
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Patent number: 11019210
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Publication number: 20200304640
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz PIAGGIO, Leonard Michael NEWNHAM
  • Patent number: 10715667
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Publication number: 20200153968
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz PIAGGIO, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Patent number: 10567585
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Publication number: 20190342451
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz PIAGGIO, Leonard Michael NEWNHAM
  • Patent number: 10404860
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Patent number: 10360574
    Abstract: Methods and systems for calculating a current response rate to an offer are disclosed. Examples of offers include but are not limited to design options for a web page and scripts used by operators in a call center. An offer may be served multiple times to one or more users and the current response rate may be determined for a point in time. The method may comprise obtaining estimates of response rate in successive iterations of response rate estimation. Each estimate may be determined over a period of time ending at the point in time, and each estimate may be determined over a larger period of time than the previous estimate. A range of uncertainty may be defined by upper and lower bounds for the estimates of response rate, with at least the first estimate being within the range of uncertainty. Each estimate may be compared to one or both of the upper and lower bounds and the result of the comparison may be used in the selection of one of the estimates as the calculated current response rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventor: Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Publication number: 20190208060
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz PIAGGIO, Leonard Michael NEWNHAM
  • Patent number: 10304070
    Abstract: Methods and systems predict a reward resulting from serving one of a set of offers to one or more potential respondents, for example via a webpage, using one or more processors to calculate a predicted reward according to a model. The model may include one or more variables characterizing the respondent, a set of offer-specific coefficients comprising at least one coefficient for each of said one or more variables for each offer, and a set of common coefficients comprising a separate coefficient for each of said one or more variables, each coefficient of said set of common coefficients being common to all of said offers. The model may be trained in a two stage update process including a first update operation updating at least one common coefficient and a second update operation updating at least one offer-specific coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NICE Ltd.
    Inventor: Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Patent number: 10270912
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Publication number: 20190089834
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Patent number: 10142475
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Nice Ltd.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Publication number: 20180270354
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz PIAGGIO, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Patent number: 9986094
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz Piaggio, Leonard Michael Newnham
  • Patent number: 9961202
    Abstract: A computing system is configured to categorize digital data records each relating to an interaction between a call center agent and a customer. The system includes a rules module to determine a first probability that a data record belongs to a category based one or more rules each rule defining a relationship between one or more features of the data record and the category; a probabilistic module to determine a second probability that the data record belongs to the category based on one or more probabilistic models of relationships between one or more of the features and the category; an arbitration module to determine whether or not the data record belongs to the category based on the first and second probabilities; and an action module to receive from the arbitration processor an indication that the interaction belongs to the category and to initiate an action appropriate to the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Facundo Bellosi, Leonard Michael Newnham, Tomer Ram
  • Publication number: 20170310824
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Natalia Beatriz PIAGGIO, Leonard Michael NEWNHAM
  • Publication number: 20170195487
    Abstract: A computing system is configured to categorize digital data records each relating to an interaction between a call center agent and a customer. The system includes a rules module to determine a first probability that a data record belongs to a category based one or more rules each rule defining a relationship between one or more features of the data record and the category; a probabilistic module to determine a second probability that the data record belongs to the category based on one or more probabilistic models of relationships between one or more of the features and the category; an arbitration module to determine whether or not the data record belongs to the category based on the first and second probabilities; and an action module to receive from the arbitration processor an indication that the interaction belongs to the category and to initiate an action appropriate to the category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Facundo Bellosi, Leonard Michael Newnham, Tomer Ram