Patents Assigned to Nice Systems Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20080195387
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining whether a speaker uttering an utterance belongs to a predetermined set comprising known speakers, wherein a training utterance is available for each known speaker. The method and apparatus test whether features extracted from the tested utterance provide a score exceeding a threshold when matched against one or more of models constructed upon voice samples of each known speaker. The method and system further provide optional enhancements such as determining, using, and updating model normalization parameters, a fast scoring algorithm, summed calls handling, or quality evaluation for the tested utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: NICE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaniv ZIGEL, Moshe WASSERBLAT
  • Publication number: 20080189171
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automated categorization of an interaction between a member of an organization and a second party. The method comprises defining one or more criteria and one or more categories, wherein each category relates to a combination of one or more criteria. The criteria involve data extracted from the interactions as well as external data. Each interaction is checked against the criteria, and is then assigned to one or more categories according to the met criteria. An optional evaluation of the categorization step, and improvement of the categorization if the evaluation results fall below a threshold are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Wasserblat, Oren Pereg, Tsvika Rabkin, Dvir Hofman, Ilan Kor, Ilan Yossef
  • Publication number: 20080181417
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for segmenting an audio interaction, by locating anchor segment from each side of the interaction, iteratively classifying additional segments into one of the two sides, and scoring the resulting segmentation, If the score result is below a threshold, the process is repeated until the segmentation score is satisfactory or until a stopping criterion is met. The anchoring and the scoring steps comprise using additional data associated with the interaction, a speaker thereof, internal or external information related to the interaction or to a speaker thereof or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: NICE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Oren Pereg, Moshe Waserblat
  • Publication number: 20080154609
    Abstract: A fraud detection method for generating a first fraud or fraud attempt probability, within an at least one captured or recorded interaction, is provided. The method comprises a scoring step for scoring an at least one voice belonging to an at least one tested speaker in the at least one captured or recorded interaction against an at least one voice print within an at least one entry in a voice print collection, the scoring step generating an at least one probability that the at least one voice in the captured or recorded interaction belongs to an at least one second speaker associated with the at least one voice print, said at least one probability represents the probability that the at least one captured or recorded interaction is fraudulent; and an auditing step for auditing the at least one probability and the at least one captured or recorded interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: Nice Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Wasserblat, Barak Eilam, Oren Pereg, Ilan Kor
  • Publication number: 20080152122
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatic quality evaluation of an activity related to an organization, such as an agent of an organization which interacts with a calling party, a product, a campaign or the like, based on any combination of one or more of the following: the interaction itself and particularly its vocal part; meta data related to the call, to the call parties or to the environment; information extracted from the call or general information. The method may be activated off-line or on-line, in which case all alert can be generated for one or more calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: NICE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Yizhak Idan, Moshe Wasserblat, Offer Hassidi
  • Publication number: 20080148397
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for web based mail lawful interception. The method and apparatus enable the detection and automatic analysis of web based mail interactions out of all intercepted web pages. The method and apparatus use and possibly generate scripts for identifying a web page as comprising a web mail message, and scripts for analyzing the web mail messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: NICE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Daphna LITVIN, Adam WEINBERG
  • Patent number: 7386105
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting a fraud or fraud attempt in a captured interaction. The method comprising a selection step in which interactions suspected as capturing fraud attempts are selected for further analysis, and assigned a first fraud probability, and a fraud detection step in which the voice is scored against one or more voice prints, of the same alleged customer or of known fraudsters. The first fraud or fraud attempt probability is combined with the result of the scoring of the fraud detection step, to generate a total fraud or fraud attempt probability. If the total fraud or fraud attempt probability exceeds a threshold, a notification is issued. The selection, scoring and combination thereof are performed using user-defined rules and thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd
    Inventors: Moshe Wasserblat, Barak Eilam, Oren Pereg, Ilan Kor
  • Patent number: 7346186
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to various methods and systems for analysis and processing of video and audio signals from a plurality of sources in real-time or off-line. According to some embodiments of the present invention, analysis and processing applications are dynamically installed ill the processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd
    Inventors: David Sharoni, Hagai Katz, Yehuda Katzman, Doron Girmonski
  • Patent number: 7333445
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for monitoring and recording voice from circuit-switched switches via a packet-switched network. A circuit-switched or VoIP recording system may record and/or live-monitor telephone calls by trunk and/or extension tapping over a packet-switched network Alternatively, a circuit-switched or VoIP recording system may record and/or live-monitor telephone calls over a packet-switched network by activating the service observation feature of the circuit-switched switch either by feature code dialing or a computer telephony integration (CTI) link command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomer Ilan, Eran Halbraich, Ilan Yosef
  • Publication number: 20080040110
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting an emotional state of a speaker participating in an audio signal. The apparatus and method are based on the distance in voice features between a person being in an emotional state and the same person being in a neutral state. The apparatus and method comprise a training phase in which a training feature vector is determined, and an ongoing stage in which the training feature vector is used to determine emotional states in a working environment. Multiple types of emotions can be detected, and the method and apparatus are speaker-independent, i.e., no prior voice sample or information about the speaker is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: NICE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Oren Pereg, Moshe Wasserblat
  • Patent number: 7305082
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for monitoring and evaluating multimedia telephonic and computer-communication interactions. The multimedia quality monitoring system may include an event manager, which may receive a notification associated with a communication between an agent and a customer and recording servers, which record data associated with the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Avishai Elazar, Ilan Freedman
  • Patent number: 7240328
    Abstract: A method and system for creating distributed applications without programming is disclosed. A Connection Editor interacts with an interface manager attached to each program in the visual development system. The interface manager allows connections to be made using the Connection Editor between the compatible properties of disparate programs by a visual process. Upon connection, the interface manager automates data flow between disparate properties without requiring any additional programming. Furthermore, the interface manager allows for dynamic properties to be exposed based on the run-time discovery of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: NICE Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Beckett, Santino Lamberti, Todd Palmer, Becky Beckett, Henry Yoder, Ray Donnelly, Danny McDougald, Donald House
  • Publication number: 20070122003
    Abstract: System for identifying a threat associated person among a crowd in a protected area, the system including an expert system network, and a supervising system coupled with the expert system network, the expert system network including a plurality of local expert systems, each of the local expert systems being associated with a respective one of a plurality of surveillance fields within the protected area, each the local expert systems being coupled with a plurality of data acquisition systems of various types, each of the data acquisition systems acquiring threat related data and marking related data respective of selected persons among the crowd within the respective surveillance field, each the local expert systems determining a respective local threat level for every one of the selected persons within the respective surveillance field, according to the threat related data and the marking related data, the supervising system coordinating the operation of the local expert systems, the supervising system receiv
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicants: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD., NICE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Uri Dobkin, Moti Shabtai, Igal Dvir, Ariel Zilberstein
  • Publication number: 20060268847
    Abstract: An apparatus for Voice over IP capturing in a network, comprising: a data receiver, tapping the network and configured to receive at least one data packet transmitted in the network, a VoIP identifier, associated with the data receiver, configured to determine if the received data packet is a VoIP data packet qualifying for forwarding to a capture device, and a forwarder, associated with the VoIP identifier, configured to forward a copy of the qualifying VoIP data packet to at least one capture device, and to forward the received data packets back to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Eran Halbraich, Reuven Knoll, Leon Portman, Yariv Lenchner, Gal Yachil
  • Publication number: 20060227719
    Abstract: A method or apparatus for managing monitoring of packet data traffic of a packet switched telephony trunk connection, such as an IP trunk, wherein the data packets identify ports but monitoring is based on extension lines and the like. A mapping unit is used for obtaining mapping data that relates ports to respective individual connections or extension lines. A packet duplication unit copies data traffic from the trunk, and an associative access unit either stores or allows direct use of the data via the mapping information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Eran Halbraich
  • Publication number: 20060133624
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the analysis, marking and summing of audio channel content and control data, the apparatus and method generating a summed signal carrying combined audio content, marking and summing data in the summed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Waserblat, Gili Aharoni, Aviv Bachar, Barak Eliam, Ilan Freedman
  • Patent number: 7010106
    Abstract: A system and method for recording and/or otherwise monitoring IP multimedia sessions. The present invention features a recording and/or monitoring device, referred to hereinafter as “a recording device” for the purposes of clarity only and without any intention of being limiting. The recording device is a participant in the IP multimedia session, although preferably the recording device only receives data for recording and/or otherwise monitoring the session. Therefore, the IP multimedia session is preferably a multi-user session, such as a “conference call” for example, even if data is being provided for recording from only one of the participants in the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Hagay Gritzer, Ilan Freedman, Ilan Yosef, Danny Shporer
  • Patent number: 7010109
    Abstract: A system and method for recording and/or otherwise monitoring IP multimedia sessions. The present invention features a recording and/or monitoring device, referred to hereinafter as “a recording device” for the purposes of clarity only and without any intention of being limiting. The recording device is a participant in the IP multimedia session, although preferably the recording device only receives data for recording and/or otherwise monitoring the session. Therefore, the IP multimedia session is preferably a multi-user session, such as a “conference call” for example, even if data is being provided for recording from only one of the participants in the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Hagay Gritzer, Ilan Freedman, Ilan Yosef, Danny Shporer
  • Patent number: 6959079
    Abstract: A monitoring system for monitoring agent telephonic interactions with customers and a method thereof is provided. The system may comprise a voice logger to receive and record audio of a telephone call received by the agent, a screen logger to receive and record video screen data associated with interactions of the agent with a computer during the telephone call and an event manager to determine whether the interactions meet at least one predefined monitoring condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Avishai Elazar
  • Publication number: 20050123115
    Abstract: A system and method for recording and/or otherwise monitoring IP multimedia sessions. The present invention features a recording and/or monitoring device, referred to hereinafter as “a recording device” for the purposes of clarity only and without any intention of being limiting. The recording device is a participant in the IP multimedia session, although preferably the recording device only receives data for recording and/or otherwise monitoring the session. Therefore, the IP multimedia session is preferably a multi-user session, such as a “conference call” for example, even if data is being provided for recording from only one of the participants in the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: NICE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hagay Gritzer, Ilan Freedman, Ilan Yosef, Danny Shporer