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).

  • Patent number: 10268571
    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 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10230836
    Abstract: A system for automated audio quality testing, comprising a plurality of endpoint emulators, call engines, and optionally audio generator devices and head and torso simulator devices, and a method for using such a system for testing of audio quality over a variety of system architectures for optimization of contact center operations and improvement of customer experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20190007550
    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: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10127513
    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: June 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20180315000
    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: June 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 10091356
    Abstract: A system for interactive voice response system crawling, comprising an IVR crawler that may be VXML, design specification, DTMF or ASR/NLSR speech-based in nature and traverses an IVR menu to discover possible interaction paths and produces test cases based on those paths, and a database that stores test cases produced by the IVR crawler during operation, and a method for interactive voice response system crawling utilizing the IVR crawler of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Thomas Fejes
  • Patent number: 10057410
    Abstract: A system for bi-directional quality testing of a telephony system or network using an audio generation device configured to automate Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality assessments and connect to a communication endpoint through computer telephony integration (CTI) instruction or system configuration to enable auto-answering of the communication endpoint, listen, record, and process signals and audio data, calculate Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), generate signals and audio for playback, compare files using a full reference algorithm, and store data with MOS results displayed in data naming structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Tony Dux, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20180167303
    Abstract: A system for case-based automated email testing, comprising a test case management server that produces test case configurations comprising email message information and execution configuration, and configured to operate an administration interface to receive user interaction and direct the operation of the test case management server, and configured to direct the operation of a plurality of email servers accessible via the network based at least in part on a test case configuration, and configured to compare at least a plurality of email messages against at least a portion of the email message information of a test case configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Publication number: 20180159974
    Abstract: A system for bi-directional quality testing of a telephony system or network using an audio generation device configured to automate Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality assessments and connect to a communication endpoint through computer telephony integration (CTI) instruction or system configuration to enable auto-answering of the communication endpoint, listen, record, and process signals and audio data, calculate Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), generate signals and audio for playback, compare files using a full reference algorithm, and store data with MOS results displayed in data naming structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Tony Dux, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20180034753
    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: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20180034754
    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: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Gavin Sansom
  • Publication number: 20170264575
    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: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventor: Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20170257482
    Abstract: A system and methods for reliable call recording testing and proprietary customer information retrieval, wherein recording may be both active and passive in nature, recording call audio from the moment a call begins such as to include dial tones, IVR interactions, and other non-conversation call contents that may generally be omitted in traditional recordings. These recordings may then be compared to similar recordings collected by traditional systems to “align” the recordings, identifying portions of the call that may have been omitted from one recording by using audio fingerprinting to match recordings up for improved analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Chapman, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20170220459
    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: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 9667776
    Abstract: A system for bi-directional quality testing of a telephony system or network using an audio generation device configured to automate Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality assessments and connect to a communication endpoint through computer telephony integration (CTI) instruction or system configuration to enable auto-answering of the communication endpoint, listen, record, and process signals and audio data, calculate Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), generate signals and audio for playback, compare files using a full reference algorithm, and store data with MOS results displayed in data naming structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Tony Dux, Geoff Willshire
  • Patent number: 9544251
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated chat-based contact center testing, comprising a test case management platform, “chat cruncher”, contact center manager, chat classifier, and desktop automation engine, and method for using such a system for automated testing of a contact center's chat-based interactions environment and reporting of test results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20160323215
    Abstract: A system for flexible and scalable automated chat-based contact center testing, comprising a test case management platform, “chat cruncher”, contact center manager, chat classifier, and desktop automation engine, and method for using such a system for automated testing of a contact center's chat-based interactions environment and reporting of test results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20160261738
    Abstract: A system for automated audio quality testing, comprising a plurality of endpoint emulators, call engines, and optionally audio generator devices and head and torso simulator devices, and a method for using such a system for testing of audio quality over a variety of system architectures for optimization of contact center operations and improvement of customer experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire
  • Publication number: 20160227034
    Abstract: A system for interactive voice response system crawling, comprising an IVR crawler that may be VXML, design specification, DTMF or ASR/NLSR speech-based in nature and traverses an IVR menu to discover possible interaction paths and produces test cases based on those paths, and a database that stores test cases produced by the IVR crawler during operation, and a method for using an IVR crawler to perform a system migration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire, Ian Ng
  • Publication number: 20160212073
    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: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Alok Kulkarni, Geoff Willshire