Patents by Inventor Dwayne W. Ockel

Dwayne W. Ockel 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: 11528365
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables communications among users having communication session requests waiting in a queue. In a particular embodiment, a method includes determining that a first communication session request from a first endpoint is in a queue for establishing a communication session with a receiving endpoint to which the queue is regulating access. While the first communication session request is in the queue, the method includes connecting the first endpoint to a communication channel between the first endpoint and a second endpoint having a second communication session request in the queue. Also, while the first communication session request is in the queue, the method includes exchanging user communications between the first endpoint and the second endpoint over the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventors: Roger I. Krimstock, Kevin Archer, Rusty Gerald Nelson, Gregory Paul Schin, Dwayne W. Ockel
  • Patent number: 10999440
    Abstract: Dynamically routing and re-evaluating a work item based on actions taken on the work item (e.g., adding context information). The augmented routing system categories a work item into one or more dynamic work categories and identifies active knowledge workers and/or knowledge articles based on the work categories. The work item is displayed in a dynamic knowledge worker view, which allows the knowledge worker to take action on the work item. The actions a knowledge worker may take are based on permissions of the knowledge worker, one of the actions that a knowledge worker may take on a work item is to add context information to the work item. After an action is taken on a work item, the system re-evaluates the work item, which may result in the work item being added/removed from one or more work categories; and added/removed from one or more dynamic customized knowledge worker views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Archer, Dwayne W. Ockel, Rusty G. Nelson, Roger I. Krimstock, Gregory P. Schin
  • Patent number: 10827074
    Abstract: Routing one or more routing characteristics of a communication session/or agent session are identified in real-time. For example, a routing characteristic is captured for a communication session (e.g., a voice call) as it goes into a contact center queue and then to an agent communication endpoint. The routing characteristics of the communication session/agent sessions is compared to one or more predefined routing characteristics that identify a wanted and/or unwanted communication session routing behavior/agent session in the contact center network. In response to identifying the wanted and/or unwanted communication session routing behavior in the contact center network, routing of the communication session and/or agent session in the contact center network are automatically changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Roger I. Krimstock, Dwayne W. Ockel, Gregory P. Schin, Kevin Archer, Rusty Nelson
  • Publication number: 20200137232
    Abstract: Routing one or more routing characteristics of a communication session/or agent session are identified in real-time. For example, a routing characteristic is captured for a communication session (e.g., a voice call) as it goes into a contact center queue and then to an agent communication endpoint. The routing characteristics of the communication session/agent sessions is compared to one or more predefined routing characteristics that identify a wanted and/or unwanted communication session routing behavior/agent session in the contact center network. In response to identifying the wanted and/or unwanted communication session routing behavior in the contact center network, routing of the communication session and/or agent session in the contact center network are automatically changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Roger I. Krimstock, Dwayne W. Ockel, Gregory P. Schin, Kevin Archer, Rusty Nelson
  • Patent number: 10587727
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to efficiently editing data requests sent from devices, allowing for an improved database information delivery system. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an administrator device limits an amount of data requested based on a number of factors prior to sending the request to a server. In some embodiments, a server, after receiving a request for refreshed data, reduces the amount of data requested based on a number of factors prior to retrieving the requested data from a source and delivering the requested data to an administrator device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Lynn Smith, Sheila Higgins, Marc A. Geist, Hongguang Li, Stan Wilkison, Stuart M. Shepherd, Dwayne W. Ockel, Gregory P. Schin
  • Patent number: 10282456
    Abstract: A contact center includes: a microprocessor; a computer readable medium, coupled to the microprocessor, to store, for one or more contact center objects, contact center information; and a microprocessor executable report generator, The report generator, when executed, receives, from a user, a selected contact center object, retrieves, from the computer readable medium, a set of data elements associated with the selected contact center object, the set of data elements defining a first space having a first dimension, projects the set of data elements onto a subspace of the first space to form a transformed set of data elements, the subspace having a second dimension less than the first dimension, and provides, for display to a user, the transformed set of data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brown, Marc A. Geist, Sheila Higgins, Michael R. Levacic, Hongguang Li, Dwayne W. Ockel, Gregory P. Schin, Stuart M. Shepherd, Lynn R. Smith, Stan W. Wilkison
  • Publication number: 20170097971
    Abstract: A contact center includes: a microprocessor; a computer readable medium, coupled to the microprocessor, to store, for one or more contact center objects, contact center information; and a microprocessor executable report generator, The report generator, when executed, receives, from a user, a selected contact center object, retrieves, from the computer readable medium, a set of data elements associated with the selected contact center object, the set of data elements defining a first space having a first dimension, projects the set of data elements onto a subspace of the first space to form a transformed set of data elements, the subspace having a second dimension less than the first dimension, and provides, for display to a user, the transformed set of data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brown, Marc A. Geist, Sheila Higgins, Michael R. Levacic, Hongguang Li, Dwayne W. Ockel, Gregory P. Schin, Stuart M. Shepherd, Lynn R. Smith, Stan W. Wilkison