Patents by Inventor Derek Beauregard

Derek Beauregard 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: 8700665
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that integrates with conferencing platforms and provides real-time information by having intelligent agents running on a networked server that is integrated with the conferencing platform. The intelligent agents may be customized or adapted “on the fly” or be preprogrammed by a user or caller to examine real-time data feeds or actively search websites and other information sources. The agents then report any relevant information or content to the system for injection or broadcast into the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Beauregard, Vivek Bhatnager, Roger Toennis
  • Patent number: 8155276
    Abstract: An IVR session brokering service provides as one core mechanism, a pool of intelligent software agents residing on a cluster-able software services platform. These agents could be designed to act as stateful and customized interaction brokers for interacting automatically and semi-automatically with existing IVR systems. Customers and users would use this brokering service as an IVR normalization and aggregation mechanism for centralizing and personalizing their user experience with a full range of IVR systems that are of interest to them. The service could consume, operate on and transform voice and touchtone communication information that is transmitted between IVR systems and the end-user customers that are currently using those IVR systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Beauregard, Vivek Bhatnagar
  • Publication number: 20110077947
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to generate a software agent that is initiated to continue the business process flow during a conference. Upon initiating a teleconference in response to a selection associated with the business process or predefined rule associated with the business process that requires a conference, an instance of a software agent is instantiated and associated with the teleconference. The software agent may be a sub-process of the conference bridge that conducts the teleconference or a separate process that interacts with the conference bridge as another party to the teleconference. The software agent is initiated with information about the business process step that requires an action or a decision. During the teleconference, the software agent listens for a command from one of the parties and acts on any command given. The commands can send another event or action back to a business process application to continue or complete the business process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Avaya, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Beauregard, Vivek Bhatnagar, Praveen K. Mamnani
  • Publication number: 20100278316
    Abstract: An IVR session brokering service provides as one core mechanism, a pool of intelligent software agents residing on a cluster-able software services platform. These agents could be designed to act as stateful and customized interaction brokers for interacting automatically and semi-automatically with existing IVR systems. Customers and users would use this brokering service as an IVR normalization and aggregation mechanism for centralizing and personalizing their user experience with a full range of IVR systems that are of interest to them. The service could consume, operate on and transform voice and touchtone communication information that is transmitted between IVR systems and the end-user customers that are currently using those IVR systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: AVAYA INC.
    Inventors: Derek Beauregard, Vivek Bhatnagar
  • Publication number: 20100274796
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that integrates with conferencing platforms and provides real-time information by having intelligent agents running on a networked server that is integrated with the conferencing platform. The intelligent agents may be customized or adapted “on the fly” or be preprogrammed by a user or caller to examine real-time data feeds or actively search websites and other information sources. The agents then report any relevant information or content to the system for injection or broadcast into the conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Avaya, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Beauregard, Vivek Bhatnager, Roger Toennis