Abstract: A method embodiment for assigning support in a customer support system comprising receiving a support request, identifying evaluation criteria corresponding to the request based upon a predetermined set of criteria types, comparing the evaluation criteria with support profiles of a plurality of support engineers, identifying a selected support engineer based upon the results of the comparison, and assigning the request to the selected support engineer.

Abstract: Polling is disclosed. A client rule set, associated with a service level, is provided. Based upon the client rule set, a polling interval for a request type is determined. A message associated with the request type is provided, and a server is polled with the message in accordance with the polling interval. A response to the message is received, and the polling interval is adjusted.

Abstract: An embodiment of a framework for servicing a client computer has a coordination engine and a data retrieval service for receiving a diagnostic data set from a client computer, an analysis service for analyzing said diagnostic data set and for generating a recommendation using the results of said analyzing. Functional modules may be executable by the services. The modules include a plurality of analysis modules for analyzing the diagnostic data set. The coordination engine is arranged to receive data from the functional modules, select modules on the basis of the diagnostic data set, and pass the data to the selected modules.

Abstract: Various system and method embodiments are disclosed that include using a first node to receive messages including error information from a plurality of client computers via a computer network. Recommendations for resolving errors associated with the error information are made available to the client computers via the computer network.