Patents by Inventor Denis Derville

Denis Derville 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: 6222918
    Abstract: The facility gives users of a telecommunications network access to services provided by agents. Call-directors receive the calls, groups of agents process them, and transit units serve as interfaces between the call-directors and the agents. First means select a transit unit for a call that has reached a call-director, as a function of a minimum cost obtained by comparing costs which are established for the various transit units. Second means select a processing group for a call that has reached a transit unit that was previously empty of calls, with selection being as a function of a minimum cost obtained by comparing costs established for the various processing roups. Third means select a transit unit for processing a call waiting in a transit unit as soon as an agent becomes available, as a function of a maximum cost obtained by comparing costs established for the various transit units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Nicolas De Kouchkovsky, Denis Derville, Jean-Yves Bizien, Sauveur Baruch