Patents by Inventor Colin D. Crossley

Colin D. Crossley 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: 6766012
    Abstract: A method for allocating agents to telephone call campaigns by a telephony system is disclosed. The disclosed method is aimed at maximizing productivity of successful agents by prioritizing call distribution to those agents enjoying a high level of success with respect to a particular call campaign during a particular period of time. The method includes providing a plurality of agent resources to participate in at least one call campaign, establishing success criteria for each call campaign, assigning a success index to each agent for each call campaign, directing calls to the plurality of agent resources in a prioritized manner, whereby calls are connected to available agents in accordance with the value of agent success indexes from highest to lowest The method also includes updating each agent success index is based on the established success criteria while the call campaign is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Concerto Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Colin D. Crossley
  • Patent number: 6751310
    Abstract: A system and method automatically allocates agent resources and prioritizes call campaigns to maximize productivity of a call center by prioritizing call distribution along with agent resource allocation to those campaigns enjoying a high level of success, such as sales success, during a particular period of time. A plurality of call campaigns are grouped together to form a pacing group. Each call campaign in the pacing group is then assigned a campaign pacing ratio each having a sales success criteria. During the processing of the call campaigns, the pacing ratio of each call campaign will then be adjusted, whereby those campaigns realizing higher levels of current sales success will have their pacing ratios increased while those experiencing lower levels of current success will have their pacing ratios decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Concerto Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Colin D. Crossley