Abstract: Robotic customer service agents may require verification of a human. The verification may be of the identity of the human and/or a capability of the human. If verified, the robot operates in a verified mode and otherwise operates in a non-verified mode. The robot performs a customer service task in one of the verified mode or the non-verified mode, which may alter, omit, or substitute actions as appropriate for the mode.

Abstract: Robotic customer service agents are provided such that, when properly configured, they are operable to perform a customer service task. A contact center may dispatch a robot, an accessory for a customer-owned robot, or instructions to transform an unconfigured robot, such as a generic robot, into a configured robot operable to perform the task. The robot may provide certain data to a contact center or a third-party to ensure compliance with operating practices to protect persons, property, and data and reduce the unnecessary acquisition of sensitive data, as well as, execute on-board risk mitigation applications.

Abstract: A customer service robot may be selected, or configured, to address a particular work item. Robots may comprise different functionality due to absent software or hardware or due to existent but worn or non-compliant components. A particular work item may have several means of resolution. A particular resolution path is selected in accord with the ability of a robot. Should no path exist, the robot may be transformed by the addition or installation of hardware and/or software to provide the absent functionality. Resolution paths may also be weighted based on the level of success provided by prior resolution paths and/or the requirement for human involvement. Accordingly, a resolution path may be provided that balances robot capability with the likelihood of success and an appropriate level of human involvement.

Abstract: A service robot is provided to communicate with other devices of a service location, such as another robot. A first and second robot may be tasked with performing a customer service task requiring a physical interaction. The first robot may determine that the second robot lacks instructions to perform the customer service task. Upon making the determination, the first robot retrieves physical interaction instructions and causes the second robot to load and execute the physical interaction instructions. The second robot is then transformed, by the first robot, into a configured robot able to perform the customer service task.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatically generating expanded and derivative tags associated with digital content. The methods and systems provide multi-dimensional, layered tagging with stored audio/video conference contents, creating relationships and a tag network between links and nodes in a communication system.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatically generating expanded and derivative tags associated with digital content. The methods and systems provide multi-dimensional, layered tagging with stored audio/video conference contents, creating relationships and a tag network between links and nodes in a communication system.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for dynamically changing between contexts running simultaneously on a single communication device, such as a mobile communication device. More particularly, each context can be run as a virtual machine on the same communication device and context-related parameters can be used to determine which context or combination of contexts should be applied at a particular time.

Abstract: First communication information is received from a first communication session in a first communication medium. The first information has an associated first topic identifier. The first communication information may be a media stream, such as a voice media stream. Second communication information is received from a second communication session in a second communication medium associated with the first topic identifier. The first and second communication mediums are different communication mediums. The second communication session occurs after the first communication session has ended. For example, the second communication medium may be an email that occurs after a voice call has completed. The first information and the second information are stored in a first topic record based on the first topic identifier. A user can then access the topic record to view the first and second communication information for the topic.

Abstract: The sentiment of a message may not be obtainable from the message itself. However, many messages have an associated context that provides information useful in determining the sentiment of a message. Messages may include links to other resources, such as graphics or videos, which in turn include titles, comments, viewer ratings or other attributes that may provide a sentiment of the message.

Abstract: Media files are often tagged, such as by XML or other tagging paradigms, in order to indicate aspects of certain portions of the media file. Disclosed herein, security policy tagging is provided that supports a logically nested or hierarchical structure. Tags may be time- and/or event-altered, such as when a user who is denied access at one point in time may be granted access at a later point in time. The need to amend the security policy based upon the passage of time is reduced or eliminated as portions, or sub-portions, of a media file that may be selectively tagged with security tags may be presented or downloaded based upon the security policy. The a security policy may incorporate rules that change permissions upon the passage of time or the occurrence of an event, without requiring the modification of the presentation, the security tags of the presentation portion, or the security tag associated with a parent portion of the presentation or the presentation itself.

Abstract: Banks and other financial institutions struggle to determine when to authorize and when to deny a transaction, such as credit card transactions, for customers. Customers, such as those who travel infrequently or otherwise make purchases at unusual locations, may have transactions denied at such locations. Conversely, stolen credit cards or their numbers, are often utilized in atypical locations for the customer. The provision of a secondary indicator of the customer's location to a bank, such as via an application or a check-in operation on a social media website, allows the bank to determine that the customer is likely at a location associated with a prospective transaction. Confirming a customer's location via a check-in operation, which may require the customer's device and/or social media credentials, provides an extra level of security while minimizing undue denial of legitimate transactions.

Abstract: Contact centers often balance the business needs to efficiently operate with the objective of providing timely service to customers interacting with the contact center. Often contact centers are unable to connect customers to live agents without a period of hold time, usually to wait for an agent to become available. Automated resources, such as interactive voice response or automated text-based response components, may gather information from the customer. When an estimated wait time for a live agent is longer than the estimated time required to perform that automated interaction, artificial delays (e.g., slow-downs, pauses, echoes, etc.) may be inserted to keep the customer engaged in an effort to retain the customer beyond an estimated abandonment time.

Abstract: A method, a device and a system selects an optimal resource and/or channel. The device of a contact center receives transaction data and interaction data corresponding to a transaction between the contact center and a user device. The transaction data includes one of a current resource being utilized for the transaction or a current channel indicating a communication channel being utilized for the transaction. The interaction data corresponds to interaction information of the current resource and the user device. The device generates a current score value of the transaction based on the transaction data and the interaction data. The device determines one of a further resource or a further channel to be used for the transaction based on the current score value and a predictive model. The predictive model defines relations between score values with the resources or the channels.

Abstract: Associating callers of a contact center with their social media identity may provide mutual benefits to the caller and contact center. For example, a business operating a contact center can receive information about their current and potential customers and customers can receive additional information, incentives, or other perks by allowing access to their social media profile. When a caller initially calls a contact center, they are prompted, and possibly incentivized, to provide a social media identity. The social media identity may or may not have an affinity with an organization on the social media website. If not, the caller is provided with the opportunity to establish the affinity. If the caller does establish the affinity, the call may be identified as having a positive sentiment or negative sentiment if the caller does not do so. The call, or future calls, with the caller may then be processed accordingly.

Abstract: Associating customers of a contact center with their social media presence may provide mutual benefits to the customer and contact center. For example, a business operating a contact center can receive information about their current and potential customers and customers can receive additional information, incentives, or other perks by allowing access to their social media profile. When a customer initially calls a contact center, they are provided with a code and asked to post the code on a page or other aspect of the company's social media presence. The social media identity of the customer can then be associated with the customer placing the call. The call center can then access additional information about the customer and respond accordingly.

Abstract: Associating callers of a contact center with their social media identity may provide mutual benefits to the caller and contact center. For example, a business operating a contact center can receive information about their current and potential customers and customers can receive additional information, incentives, or other perks by allowing access to their social media profile. When a caller initially calls a contact center, they are prompted, and possibly incentivized, to check into a virtual venue. The caller may then be known, via an associated social media identity, to the contact center. The virtual venue may then receive access to comments and other posts, such as endorsements, provided by connects to the social media identity and process the call in accordance with the sentiment or utilize the social media network for post-call follow-up.

Abstract: Associating callers of a contact center with their social media identity may provide mutual benefits to the caller and contact center. For example, a business operating a contact center can receive information about their current and potential customers and customers can receive additional information, incentives, or other perks by allowing access to their social media profile. When a caller initially calls a contact center, they are prompted, and possibly incentivized, to provide a social media identity. The social media identity may or may not have an affinity with an organization on the social media website. If not, the caller is provided with the opportunity to establish the affinity. If the caller does establish the affinity, the call may be identified as having a positive sentiment or negative sentiment if the caller does not do so. The call, or future calls, with the caller may then be processed accordingly.

Abstract: A user profile is temporarily accessed by an accessor. A method performed by the accessor of a contact center includes receiving access data. The access data includes a user identifier for a user, an identifier identifying a third party having profile data of the user, and a user-predefined condition which must be satisfied for the profile data to be temporarily accessible by the contact center. The method includes transmitting a request to the third party to temporarily access the profile data during a time period when the condition is satisfied, the request including the user identifier. The method includes temporarily accessing the user profile when the request is granted.

Abstract: A dialog aggregator provided by a contact center communication system for text-based interaction chains is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. The dialog aggregator produces a summary, in real-time, of questions posed and existing answers in the interaction chain while identifying outstanding questions that have not been answered for display to an agent. The display includes any current answer the agent is working on as well as completed items and additionally executes rules based on the status of the remaining questions. The display in canonical form of the summary and outstanding question set enables a contact center agent or other observer of the interaction to quickly and efficiently assess the interaction history.

Abstract: Tagging media streams allows topics and other items of interest to be readily identified. As provided herein, stateful tags are provided, which comprise a value determined from a link to another data source, such as a calendar, inventory, accounting, project management, or other application. Media streams, such as audio/video confines, may be tagged with stateful tags to identify items of interest and comprise a value that is dynamically determined. Subsequent playback of the media streams allows the stateful tags to be presented as comprising a then-current or other value, which may have changed since the time of the media stream's creation.