Patents Assigned to West Corporation
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Patent number: 10694036Abstract: A method and apparatus of applying user profile information to a customized application are disclosed. One example method of operation may include receiving an inquiry message or call from a user device, identifying and authorizing the user from inquiry message information received from the inquiry message, retrieving a user profile comprising at least one user preference, applying the at least one user preference to a user call processing application, and transmitting menu options to the user device based on the applied at least user preference.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventor: Craig A. Webster
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Patent number: 10694025Abstract: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor perform receiving a telephony connection request at a location in a telephony network, the location separated from an intended recipient of the telephony connection request by a target telephony network, determining addressing information regarding the intended recipient, the addressing information including at least routing information or a phone number, determining a status characteristic of the intended recipient based on the addressing information, based on the status characteristic, and determining whether the intended recipient would successfully receive the telephony connection request if the telephony connection request was forwarded to the intended recipient.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventor: Douglas L. Davis
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Patent number: 10652192Abstract: In a system, method and computer readable medium for managing message delivery, message delivery jobs are dynamically prioritized into a plurality of priority queues based on a delivery timeframe for each job. A delivery manager controls delivery of the message delivery jobs through a number of delivery channels and ports. A priority manager reviews jobs pending in the queues. If the priority manager determines that a message delivery job will not be completed within its delivery timeframe, the priority manager assigns a higher priority to the message delivery job.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Gary Douglas Pulford, Bruce Pollock, Ian James Juliano, James P. Breen
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Patent number: 10652346Abstract: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor perform receiving a list including a plurality of possible recipients of telephony network connections, the recipients identified by a telephony number, determining a status characteristic of the intended recipient based on the addressing information, based on the status characteristic, determining whether the intended recipient would successfully receive a telephony connection request if the telephony connection request was forwarded to the intended recipient, and indicating the determination of whether the intended recipient would successfully receive the telephony connection request on the list.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: WEST CORPORATIONInventor: Douglas L. Davis
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Patent number: 10645215Abstract: Personal information, such as professional information normally associated with a business card may be identified and appended to a messaging sequence to provide automated user profile updates. One example embodiment may transmitting an initiation message from a service provider to a user device to initiate a communication session, transmitting a request message to the user device to accept contact information associated with the service provider, receiving a confirmation message responsive to the request message, transmitting the contact information responsive to receiving confirmation of the request, and automatically initiating a contact information update on the user device.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Kellan Stec, James K. Boutcher
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Patent number: 10635805Abstract: A system and method for Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) access control for a mobile device. An entity requesting to utilize MRCP resources establishes a relationship with a MRCP resource provider. The MRCP resource provider maintains account information for the entity, and the entity receives a unique account number for identification purposes. The entity requests from the MRCP resource provider generation of at least one MRCP access PIN associated with the account information, and provides a data string associated with the MRCP access PIN to the MRCP resource provider.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventor: Chad Daniel Fox
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Patent number: 10630839Abstract: A Mobile Voice Self Service (MVSS) mobile system that includes an MVSS mobile device, on which a VoiceXML browser is implemented directly. The VoiceXML browser may request a VoiceXML application from a VoiceXML application server and process it. A client system may include the VoiceXML application server that the VoiceXML application is requested from. Upon request, the VoiceXML application may deliver the requested VoiceXML application to the VoiceXML application browser. A vendor media resource system may provide advanced Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) services, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Text-To-Speech (TTS), to the VoiceXML application that is being processed by the VoiceXML application browser. A call data manager may also be implemented on the MVSS mobile device and may provide call data that, in conjunction with data from the VoiceXML application server, may authorize access to advanced Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) services.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventor: Chad Daniel Fox
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Patent number: 10630841Abstract: Agents operating at call centers or other customer support service networks may assist large numbers of customers consecutively and in a dynamic manner. One example may include populating a portion of a first agent user interface of a first agent device with a first customer profile, identifying a second agent device currently assigned a second customer call with second customer call information related to the first customer call information, comparing the first customer call information to the second customer call information, determining the second customer call information exceeds a relevancy threshold when compared to first customer call information, populating a portion of a second agent user interface of the second agent device with the portion of the first agent user interface, and updating the first agent user interface by removing the first customer call information and providing another customer call to the first user agent device.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Jonathan R. Dirienzi, Jonathan Levine, Eric Weaver
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Patent number: 10623328Abstract: One example method of operation may include one or more of receiving messages from different clients, storing the messages in a queue, identifying the clients assigned to the messages, assigning the messages to different threads in a thread pool based on the identified clients, and processing the messages via the different threads.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Karthika Balachandran, Kerry McMurtry, Jason Randall Nash, Subhash Parthibhan
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Patent number: 10623570Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer program receive a request message from a mobile device to connect with an agent and authenticate the request message and provisioning a database for enabled services and service location. A service provider is identified and selected from a plurality of service providers. As a result, the request message is transmitted to the service provider in order to determine availability of the service provider.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Michael T. Mateer, James K. Boutcher, Jesse Andersen
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Patent number: 10614169Abstract: Providing unique prompts for script, comprising sequencing, by a processor, at least one script in a design order having at least one prompt, identifying, by the processor, duplicate prompts of the at least one prompt, identifying, by the processor, unique prompts of the at least one prompt, translation tagging, by the processor, the identified unique prompts and replicating, by the processor, the translation tagged unique prompts to the identified duplicate prompts.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: WEST CORPORATIONInventors: Terry Olson, John B. Bohan, Mark L. Sempek
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Patent number: 10616166Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing notifications to a customer is disclosed. One example method of operation may include identifying a notification event associated with a customer via a customer management module and retrieving a customer preference record and determining a notification device preference for a customer Internet protocol (IP) device included in the customer preference record. The method may also include transmitting the notification event to the customer's IP device based on the notification device preference, the notification event may include a live agent support option which may be accessed in the event that the automated support options fail to satisfy the customer's questions and concerns.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Jeffrey William Cordell, James K. Boutcher
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Patent number: 10601743Abstract: A message receiving, intercepting and processing method and corresponding application and device may provide receiving a message at a message processing server, pre-processing the message to determine a particular contextual classification associated with a word included in the message and assigning the message to a predefined message bucket that has a number of automated responses. The method may also include identifying an automated response to the message that includes contextual information that is based on the parsed word from the message and processing the message to determine whether to generate the automated response and transmit the automated response to an end user device based on a confidence score.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Adam Caldwell, Jeffrey William Cordell, James K. Boutcher
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Patent number: 10601927Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for configuring context aware sessions. A first session is provided using a first communication channel Contextual information of the first session is used to provide a second session using a second communication channel, wherein the second session is associated with the first session.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Michael T. Mateer, James K. Boutcher, Jesse Andersen
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Patent number: 10599674Abstract: An apparatus, computer-implemented method, and computer program are provided. In one embodiment, data is transferred from a database to a staging table in another database. The data is extracted from the staging table in order to transform the data, and the extracted data is transmitted to a database of another computing system.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Jaikishan Maru, Mark J. Holmes
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Patent number: 10594799Abstract: Monitoring a particular home or place of business for activity may provide a remote subscriber with updated information regarding feedback from sensors at the remote location. One example method of operation may include receiving sensor data from one or more sensors that have been activated at the remote location, identifying a subscriber account associated with the sensor data, matching the sensor data with a predefined sensor identifier stored in the subscriber account, and generating a notification to include the predefined sensor identifier and a time reference indicator associated with a time the sensor data was activated.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Eileen Clare Frost, James K. Boutcher
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Patent number: 10594840Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a bot communication request from a user device, the bot communication request comprising content from on one or more of a spoken utterance and a typed input received via the user device, retrieving configuration information comprising credentials and unique communication protocol information for each of a plurality of bot services, automatically determining a bot service for responding to the bot communication request from among the plurality of bot services, and establishing a communication channel with the determined bot service based on unique credentials of the determined bot service, and transmitting the bot communication request to the determined bot service via the established communication channel based on unique communication protocol information of the determined bot service.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Kenneth A. Darby, Geoffrey A. Finch, Sammy Sufian
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Patent number: 10587755Abstract: Agents operating at call centers or other customer support service networks may assist large numbers of customers consecutively and in a dynamic manner. One example may include receiving a plurality of calls for customer service support from a corresponding plurality of customer devices at a call routing server, retrieving user profiles associated with the plurality of calls and identifying call information for the plurality of calls, determining at least one call is associated with a first user profile having a task deadline approaching sooner than the other user profiles, and establishing a priority for the at least one call to be processed by an agent device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Jonathan R. Dirienzi, Jonathan Levine, Eric Weaver
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Patent number: 10586233Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for authenticating a customer in an online transaction. In one embodiment, a method includes initiating, in conjunction with an online transaction, an authentication query via a communication device associated with a customer in the online transaction, receiving customer authentication data from the communication device, sending the customer authentication data to a third-party authentication server to authenticate the customer using the customer authentication data, receiving a determination from the third-party authentication server whether the customer is authenticated, and allowing the online transaction to proceed in response to receiving the determination that the customer is authenticated.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Larry Trent Larson, Chad Lynn Brockman, April Lynn Peek, Eric A. Grun, Kenneth A. Marr
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Patent number: 10582047Abstract: A call center system is configured to record call data into call records. A transfer center within the call center transfers the call records to a database. A query engine, controlled from an interactive user interface, executes queries on the call data records in the database, allowing real-time analysis of the call data.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: West CorporationInventors: Michael J. Moore, Anne Marie Giles, Denise Ann Mallory, Erika Nelson Kessenger, Bruce Pollock, Claire Denise Matt