Patents by Inventor Geoff Willshire

Geoff Willshire 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).

  • Publication number: 20220252666
    Abstract: A system and methods for adaptive bi-direction audio wiring, in which a circuit may be attached via a headset port using RJ9 pin configurations in a phone handset, and dynamically test many different phone handset configurations for optimal audio pathing and processing for speaker and microphone audio generation with minimal noise, static, or power fluctuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Tony Dux, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20220255887
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20220148568
    Abstract: A system for synthesizing real IVR scenarios, automatically reproducing test scenarios, and providing accurate reports on those scenarios. An IVR tester uses a telephony device (website, mobile app, VOIP, etc.) and an automated IVR test case generator to place test calls to an IVR system. The automated IVR test case generator intercepts and collects the phone call's audio stream, dual-tone multi-frequency signals, and available metadata (e.g., response times, post-speech silence timeout, etc.). Once the call is complete, the automated IVR test case generator pre-populates a webpage or other user-interface technology and a database with the audio stream, dual-tone multi-frequency signals, and available metadata from the test scenario phone call. The IVR tester may then save that test scenario and continue to the next scenario. The saved scenario may now be used automatically by the IVR test case generator for regression testing or duplicated and edited for use in other systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Thomas Fejes
  • Publication number: 20220124057
    Abstract: A mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing gives up-to-the-minute status reports on your customer experience, enabling you to make operational decisions and drill down to the source Of an issue while on the go. A rookie-optimized executive dashboard display can be customized for each unique user, so business and technical stakeholders can filter the display for the customer experience (CX) metrics that re most relevant to them, and configure push notification alerts accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Patent number: 11265272
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20220060581
    Abstract: A system and method for operating and testing real-time communications between web browsers and contact centers, comprising an operator network, cloud contact center, cloud contact center agent application, and a synthetic software agent comprised of agent automation software, injected API shim code, virtual audio devices, audio processing applications, and media servers, capable of performing automated and to end communication testing. In order to provide end to end testing, especially with respect to voice quality, the synthetic agent software may control and monitor the audio channels (both send and receive) of the browser communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 11255910
    Abstract: A system and methods for adaptive bi-direction audio wiring, in which a circuit may be attached via a headset port using RJ9 pin configurations in a phone handset, and dynamically test many different phone handset configurations for optimal audio pathing and processing for speaker and microphone audio generation with minimal noise, static, or power fluctuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Tony Dux, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 11178080
    Abstract: A mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing gives up-to-the-minute status reports on your customer experience, enabling you to make operational decisions and drill down to the source of an issue while on the go. A mobile-optimized executive dashboard display can be customized for each unique user, so business and technical stakeholders can filter the display for the customer experience (CX) metrics that are most relevant to them, and configure push notification alerts accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Patent number: 11178276
    Abstract: A system comprising a call center, contact system test engine, plurality of networks, at least one remote server, at least one remote database, which allows users to automate call center testing and combine synchronized results for agent-customer calls (AX-CX test synchronization). The system is further accomplished with methods, using different techniques for synchronizing the testing for both customer and agent results, and producing these test results in a mobile dashboard and web-accessible dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20210328901
    Abstract: A system and method for interactivity testing of text-based customer communications which allows for interactivity testing of different forms of text-based communications with a contact center including two-factor authentication testing, multi-modal communication testing, and load testing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Publication number: 20210304106
    Abstract: A system and method for automated multi-channel customer journey testing, that links communication channels and follows a customer interaction across multiple channels as a single journey, incorporating data and interaction content from each channel utilized to maintain a “big picture” view of a customer's journey across these channels during an interaction. The invention also provides flexible success indicators to accommodate virtual assistant and chat bot programs, by accommodating variances in expected test results such as to handle natural language variance, time of day, context, and other factors that may cause variances in interaction content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 11095774
    Abstract: A system and method for operating and testing real-time communications between web browsers and contact centers, comprising an operator network, cloud contact center, cloud contact center agent application, and a synthetic software agent comprised of agent automation software, injected API shim code, virtual audio devices, audio processing applications, and media servers, capable of performing automated and to end communication testing. In order to provide end to end testing, especially with respect to voice quality, the synthetic agent software may control and monitor the audio channels (both send and receive) of the browser communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTONS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 11010704
    Abstract: A system and method for automated multi-channel customer journey testing, that links communication channels and follows a customer interaction across multiple channels as a single journey, incorporating data and interaction content from each channel utilized to maintain a “big picture” view of a customer's journey across these channels during an interaction. The invention also provides flexible success indicators to accommodate virtual assistant and chat bot programs, by accommodating variances in expected test results such as to handle natural language variance, time of day, context, and other factors that may cause variances in interaction content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10965579
    Abstract: A system and method for interactivity testing of text-based customer communications which allows for interactivity testing of different forms of text-based communications with a contact center including two-factor authentication testing, multi-modal communication testing, and load testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Patent number: 10965627
    Abstract: An automated contact center agent mobile device client infrastructure testing system comprising a mobile device command repository is disclosed. The system also has a mobile device control module that retrieves mobile device commands from the repository, receives instructions, data, and parameters for contact center device testing, runs predesignated contact center device test suites on at least one mobile device, receives contact center device test suite result data from mobile devices, and forwards the contact center device test suite result data received from mobile devices to a contact center device test manager system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20210092229
    Abstract: A system and method for automated customer response system mapping and duplication to provide for a common Interactive Voice Response (“IVR”) system import language or structure, comprising a contact center crawler which connects with an existing automated contact center system, may navigate and map that system by recording and selecting each available option or by interfacing with the code that makes up the IVR itself to generate a model, records the response to each selected option, and feeds the options and responses to a tree creator; a CX model generator which organizes the options and responses into a data map such as a tree or more graph-like or map-like structure, where logical conditions or operations such as loops and recursion may be present; and a coding engine that generates programmatic code representing the data model that is imported into another IVR platform for execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20210006653
    Abstract: A system comprising a call center, contact system test engine, plurality of networks, at least one remote server, at least one remote database, which allows users to automate call center testing and combine synchronized results for agent-customer calls (AX-CX test synchronization). The system is further accomplished with methods, using different techniques for synchronizing the testing for both customer and agent results, and producing these test results in a mobile dashboard and web-accessible dashboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10877876
    Abstract: A system for centralized testing of web-based agent desktops has been devised. The invention uses a test control portal. The test control portal acts as the interface between the client interaction software systems testing system and analyst controlled test device, executes an extensive set of robust test directive commands with underlying routines to be used to specify test conditions without the use of programming ability on the part of the analyst, uses a robust set of report item and format choice designators to allow easy selection of a range of report content and styles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10873546
    Abstract: A system for automated contact center agent thick client workstation testing. The invention uses a workstation test execution manager. The workstation test execution manager acts as the interface between the client interaction software systems testing system and analyst controlled test device, executes an extensive set of robust test directive commands with underlying routines to be used to specify test conditions without the use of programming ability on the part of the analyst, uses a robust set of report item and format choice designators to allow easy selection of a range of report content and styles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20200389419
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire