Patents by Inventor Timothy M. Leonard

Timothy M. Leonard 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: 6377567
    Abstract: A distribution system makes reports available to customers of call centers. The report may provide information regarding calls handled by the call center on behalf of the customer. For example, the report provide call statistics, including summary call statistic and individuals call statistic. The report may also include billing detail records. The reports are automatically generated and distributed for access by the customers via computing resources. The distribution may be accomplished in near real time. The reports may consolidate data gathered from multiple agent consoles and from multiple call centers, including geographically call centers. Separate reports may be provided for each of the customers served by the call centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy M. Leonard
  • Patent number: 5953406
    Abstract: A profile editor is provided for creating and editing customer profiles. The customer profiles hold information regarding customers of a call center. Each customer profile encapsulates information regarding call flow of a call serviced by the call center on behalf of the customer. For example, a customer profile may hold product information, pricing information, shipping information, call flow information, scripts, and other information for a customer that may be used by an operator to service a call on behalf of the customer. The profile editor may also include a test operator console program to test how an operator console program that is used to assist an operator in servicing calls on behalf of a customer in the call center will use a customer profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: David L. LaRue, James Brian Ivey, Timothy M. Leonard