Patents by Inventor Matt Heacock

Matt Heacock 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: 7778398
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a record with a customer. One method receives at a communication center a request for support from the customer. A data field is presented to an agent for entry of information identifying the customer. A menu of options is presented that allows the agent to make selections describing the customer's request for support. A preformatted note is populated with selections received from the agent. The preformatted note has fields corresponding to the menu of options, with the preformatted note formed by populating a particular field with the corresponding selection by the agent. The preformatted note is stored as the record of the customer's request for support, wherein the preformatted note has a standardized format regardless of the agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott M. Berger, Matt Heacock
  • Publication number: 20090076871
    Abstract: Methods and systems handle interactions relating to customer accounts by determining the status of existing trouble tickets and then taking an action on behalf of a customer service agent based on the determined status. If no trouble tickets are currently unclosed for the customer account, then a new trouble ticket is opened. If only one trouble ticket is unclosed for the customer account, then the one trouble ticket is statused for the agent. If multiple trouble tickets are unclosed for the customer account, then those unclosed tickets are displayed within a list for selection by the agent. The list may provide the agent with the option to select a new trouble ticket should the existing trouble tickets not be applicable to the current interaction with the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventor: Matt Heacock
  • Publication number: 20060126818
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a record with a customer. One method receives at a communication center a request for support from the customer. A data field is presented to an agent for entry of information identifying the customer. A menu of options is presented that allows the agent to make selections describing the customer's request for support. A preformatted note is populated with selections received from the agent. The preformatted note has fields corresponding to the menu of options, with the preformatted note formed by populating a particular field with the corresponding selection by the agent. The preformatted note is stored as the record of the customer's request for support, wherein the preformatted note has a standardized format regardless of the agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Scott Berger, Matt Heacock