Patents by Inventor David Owen Peterson

David Owen Peterson 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: 8351595
    Abstract: A method for an automated call distribution system to re-associate a caller with a queue position previously established in an on-hold queue. The method includes receiving a first incoming call from a caller and assigning the caller to a position in an on-hold queue when the caller is placed on-hold by the automated call distribution system. A placeholder for the caller may then be assigned in the on-hold queue when the caller disconnects with the automated call distribution system. The placeholder corresponds to the position of the caller in the on-hold queue and is associated with a caller identifier. The method further includes receiving a second incoming call from the caller and associating the second incoming call with the caller identifier. It is then determined that the caller is associated with the placeholder. The caller is placed back into the on-hold queue at the position of the placeholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Incontact, Inc.
    Inventors: David Owen Peterson, Tim Harris, Brian Douglas Minert, Bryan Craig Pino, Nicholas Bauer Ramond, Mark Erik Rasi-Koskinen
  • Publication number: 20110179304
    Abstract: One example embodiment includes a method for providing multi-tenancy in a computing environment. The method includes receiving a script in a computing environment, where the script includes one or more actions to be completed by the computing environment. The method further includes providing one or more computing resources in the computing environment and building an action list for the one or more computing resources, where the action list is a data structure that contains a list of one or more actions to be executed by the one or more computing resources. The method further includes transmitting a first action to one of the one or more computing resources, where the first action is one of the one or more actions. The method further includes executing the first action in the one of the one or more computing resources and indicating to the action list the completion of the first action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: INCONTACT, INC.
    Inventor: David Owen Peterson
  • Publication number: 20110179398
    Abstract: One example embodiment includes a method for compiling one or more scripts on a per-action basis. The method includes receiving a script including one or more actions to be accomplished by a script application. The method further includes determining if the script has been previously compiled and determining if the script has been changed since it was last compiled. The method further includes retrieving the compiled script from a memory if the script was previously compiled and if the script has not been changed since it was last compiled. The method further includes compiling the script if it has not been previously compiled or if the script has been changed since it was last compiled. Compiling the script includes translating the script from source code to machine code, saving the machine code to the memory and identifying the script as compiled. The method further includes executing the compiled script.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: INCONTACT, INC.
    Inventor: David Owen Peterson
  • Publication number: 20110178946
    Abstract: One example embodiment includes a method for computing environment redundancy with check pointing. The method includes receiving a script application in a first computing environment and a second computing environment. The method further includes receiving the one or more scripts in the first computing environment and the second computing environment. The method further includes executing the script application and at least one of the one or more scripts in the first computing environment and preparing a snapshot of the state of the first computing environment at predetermined checkpoints in the script application and the one or more scripts. The method further includes saving the snapshot to a memory in the first computing environment, transmitting the snapshot to the second computing environment and saving the snapshot to a memory in the second computing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: INCONTACT, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Douglas Minert, David Owen Peterson