Patents by Inventor Alok KULKARNI

Alok KULKARNI 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: 11948160
    Abstract: A system and method for autogenerated synthetic operational customer satisfaction scoring and analysis, that generates synthetic calls and follows customer interactions across multiple channels as a single journey, which monitors synthetic calls for a plurality of failure events that may represent infrastructure related operational deficiencies that may adversely affect customer satisfaction and sentiment, which assigns a synthetic operational customer satisfaction score for each synthetic call, and which uses machine learning to optimize infrastructure configurations to improve customer satisfaction and sentiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Linda Chen
  • Patent number: 11799808
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 11790886
    Abstract: A system for synthesizing real IVR scenarios, automatically reproducing test scenarios, and providing accurate reports on those scenarios. An IVR tester uses a telephony device (website, mobile app, VOIP, etc.) and an automated IVR test case generator to place test calls to an IVR system. The automated IVR test case generator intercepts and collects the phone call's audio stream, dual-tone multi-frequency signals, and available metadata (e.g., response times, post-speech silence timeout, etc.). Once the call is complete, the automated IVR test case generator pre-populates a webpage or other user-interface technology and a database with the audio stream, dual-tone multi-frequency signals, and available metadata from the test scenario phone call. The IVR tester may then save that test scenario and continue to the next scenario. The saved scenario may now be used automatically by the IVR test case generator for regression testing or duplicated and edited for use in other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Thomas Fejes
  • Patent number: 11783267
    Abstract: A system and method for automated multi-channel customer journey testing, that links communication channels and follows a customer interaction across multiple channels as a single journey, incorporating data and interaction content from each channel utilized to maintain a “big picture” view of a customer's journey across these channels during an interaction. The invention also provides flexible success indicators to accommodate virtual assistant and chat bot programs, by accommodating variances in expected test results such as to handle natural language variance, time of day, context, and other factors that may cause variances in interaction content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20230252496
    Abstract: A system and method for autogenerated synthetic operational customer satisfaction scoring and analysis, that generates synthetic calls and follows customer interactions across multiple channels as a single journey, which monitors synthetic calls for a plurality of failure events that may represent infrastructure related operational deficiencies that may adversely affect customer satisfaction and sentiment, which assigns a synthetic operational customer satisfaction score for each synthetic call, and which uses machine learning to optimize infrastructure configurations to improve customer satisfaction and sentiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Linda Chen
  • Patent number: 11588766
    Abstract: A mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing gives up-to-the-minute status reports on your customer experience, enabling you to make operational decisions and drill down to the source of an issue while on the go. A mobile-optimized executive dashboard display can be customized for each unique user, so business and technical stakeholders can filter the display for the customer experience (CX) metrics that are most relevant to them, and configure push notification alerts accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Publication number: 20220255887
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20220148568
    Abstract: A system for synthesizing real IVR scenarios, automatically reproducing test scenarios, and providing accurate reports on those scenarios. An IVR tester uses a telephony device (website, mobile app, VOIP, etc.) and an automated IVR test case generator to place test calls to an IVR system. The automated IVR test case generator intercepts and collects the phone call's audio stream, dual-tone multi-frequency signals, and available metadata (e.g., response times, post-speech silence timeout, etc.). Once the call is complete, the automated IVR test case generator pre-populates a webpage or other user-interface technology and a database with the audio stream, dual-tone multi-frequency signals, and available metadata from the test scenario phone call. The IVR tester may then save that test scenario and continue to the next scenario. The saved scenario may now be used automatically by the IVR test case generator for regression testing or duplicated and edited for use in other systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Thomas Fejes
  • Publication number: 20220124057
    Abstract: A mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing gives up-to-the-minute status reports on your customer experience, enabling you to make operational decisions and drill down to the source Of an issue while on the go. A rookie-optimized executive dashboard display can be customized for each unique user, so business and technical stakeholders can filter the display for the customer experience (CX) metrics that re most relevant to them, and configure push notification alerts accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Patent number: 11265272
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 11178080
    Abstract: A mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing gives up-to-the-minute status reports on your customer experience, enabling you to make operational decisions and drill down to the source of an issue while on the go. A mobile-optimized executive dashboard display can be customized for each unique user, so business and technical stakeholders can filter the display for the customer experience (CX) metrics that are most relevant to them, and configure push notification alerts accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Patent number: 11178276
    Abstract: A system comprising a call center, contact system test engine, plurality of networks, at least one remote server, at least one remote database, which allows users to automate call center testing and combine synchronized results for agent-customer calls (AX-CX test synchronization). The system is further accomplished with methods, using different techniques for synchronizing the testing for both customer and agent results, and producing these test results in a mobile dashboard and web-accessible dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20210304106
    Abstract: A system and method for automated multi-channel customer journey testing, that links communication channels and follows a customer interaction across multiple channels as a single journey, incorporating data and interaction content from each channel utilized to maintain a “big picture” view of a customer's journey across these channels during an interaction. The invention also provides flexible success indicators to accommodate virtual assistant and chat bot programs, by accommodating variances in expected test results such as to handle natural language variance, time of day, context, and other factors that may cause variances in interaction content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 11010704
    Abstract: A system and method for automated multi-channel customer journey testing, that links communication channels and follows a customer interaction across multiple channels as a single journey, incorporating data and interaction content from each channel utilized to maintain a “big picture” view of a customer's journey across these channels during an interaction. The invention also provides flexible success indicators to accommodate virtual assistant and chat bot programs, by accommodating variances in expected test results such as to handle natural language variance, time of day, context, and other factors that may cause variances in interaction content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20210006653
    Abstract: A system comprising a call center, contact system test engine, plurality of networks, at least one remote server, at least one remote database, which allows users to automate call center testing and combine synchronized results for agent-customer calls (AX-CX test synchronization). The system is further accomplished with methods, using different techniques for synchronizing the testing for both customer and agent results, and producing these test results in a mobile dashboard and web-accessible dashboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10877876
    Abstract: A system for centralized testing of web-based agent desktops has been devised. The invention uses a test control portal. The test control portal acts as the interface between the client interaction software systems testing system and analyst controlled test device, executes an extensive set of robust test directive commands with underlying routines to be used to specify test conditions without the use of programming ability on the part of the analyst, uses a robust set of report item and format choice designators to allow easy selection of a range of report content and styles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20200389419
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20200236073
    Abstract: A mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing gives up-to-the-minute status reports on your customer experience, enabling you to make operational decisions and drill down to the source of an issue while on the go. A mobile-optimized executive dashboard display can be customized for each unique user, so business and technical stakeholders can filter the display for the customer experience (CX) metrics that are most relevant to them, and configure push notification alerts accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Patent number: 10694027
    Abstract: A system for automated audio quality testing, comprising a plurality of endpoint emulators, call engines, and optionally audio generator devices and head and torso simulator devices, and a method for using such a system for testing of audio quality over a variety of system architectures for optimization of contact center operations and improvement of customer experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CYARA SOUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10659601
    Abstract: A system comprising a call center, contact system test engine, plurality of networks, at least one remote server, at least one remote database, which allows users to automate call center testing and combine synchronized results for agent-customer calls (AX-CX test synchronization). The system is further accomplished with methods, using different techniques for synchronizing the testing for both customer and agent results, and producing these test results in a mobile dashboard and web-accessible dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire