Patents by Inventor Thomas Lyerly

Thomas Lyerly 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: 8117064
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a content recorder configured to record content of plurality of agent interactions; an analytics component configured to perform speech analysis on at least a portion of the agent interactions, and further configured to evaluate the interactions based on a plurality of criteria, producing a score; and a quality monitor configured to associate the analyzed interactions with interaction metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Gordon Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Patent number: 8112306
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein provide a notification engine that facilitates integration of solutions for performing workforce management, quality monitoring, e-learning, performance management, and analytics functionality. The notification engine facilitates combining quality monitoring/call recording with performance management and e-learning functionality as a unified integrated solution. The combination can be delivered through a single platform and enables users to gain more insight and make smarter decisions faster about sales, service, and overall operations. This takes customer center tools beyond the traditional “suite” approach to a true single workforce optimization platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Lyerly, Nick McLean, Shimon Keren
  • Patent number: 8112298
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an integrated process for optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, the method comprises: defining contact center business goals; planning at least one campaign to implement the goals; scheduling and deploying a workforce in accordance with the campaign to produce agent-customer interactions; measuring agent performance on the interactions to produce quality metrics; analyzing the metrics to produce a rating; combining quality metrics to produce performance indicators; and using the performance indicators in the planning step of a second campaign or another iteration of the first campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Gordon Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Patent number: 8108237
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a workforce manager comprising a scheduler and a tracking function; and a lesson assignment function configured to receive at least one indicator of performance of the agent, and further configured to assign a lesson to the agent based on the at least one indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Gordon Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Patent number: 7913063
    Abstract: A first performance indicator associated with a first agent is received from a workforce management system. A second performance indicator associated with a second agent is also received from the workforce management system. The first agent and the second agent are ranked in a queue of available agents based upon at least the first performance indicator and the second performance indicator. This produces a first queue rank associated with the first agent. An incoming call directed to the queue of available agents is received. An agent to service the incoming call is selected from the queue of available agents based upon the first queue rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Lyerly
  • Patent number: 7792278
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating contact center surveys are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: obtaining performance data pertaining to a contact center agent, the agent being designated to assist a customer of the contact center; providing a survey to the customer; receiving survey data responsive to the survey and corresponding to interaction with the customer by the contact center agent; and correlating the performance data with the survey data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Watson, Thomas Lyerly, Nick McLean
  • Publication number: 20070233549
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating contact center surveys are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: obtaining performance data pertaining to a contact center agent, the agent being designated to assist a customer of the contact center; providing a survey to the customer; receiving survey data responsive to the survey and corresponding to interaction with the customer by the contact center agent; and correlating the performance data with the survey data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Joseph Watson, Thomas Lyerly, Nick McLean
  • Publication number: 20070198323
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a content recorder configured to record content of plurality of agent interactions; an analytics component configured to perform speech analysis on at least a portion of the agent interactions, and further configured to evaluate the interactions based on a plurality of criteria, producing a score; and a quality monitor configured to associate the analyzed interactions with interaction metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Nies, Thomas Lyerly
  • Publication number: 20070198329
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein provide a notification engine that facilitates integration of solutions for performing workforce management, quality monitoring, e-learning, performance management, and analytics functionality. The notification engine facilitates combining quality monitoring/call recording with performance management and e-learning functionality as a unified integrated solution. The combination can be delivered through a single platform and enables users to gain more insight and make smarter decisions faster about sales, service, and overall operations. This takes customer center tools beyond the traditional “suite” approach to a true single workforce optimization platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Lyerly, Nick McLean, Shimon Keren
  • Publication number: 20070198325
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein provide a notification engine that facilitates integration of solutions for performing workforce management, quality monitoring, e-learning, performance management, and analytics functionality. The notification engine facilitates combining quality monitoring/call recording with performance management and e-learning functionality as a unified integrated solution. The combination can be delivered through a single platform and enables users to gain more insight and make smarter decisions faster about sales, service, and overall operations. This takes customer center tools beyond the traditional “suite” approach to a true single workforce optimization platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Lyerly, Nick McLean, Shimon Keren
  • Publication number: 20070198322
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an integrated process for optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, the method comprises: defining contact center business goals; planning at least one campaign to implement the goals; scheduling and deploying a workforce in accordance with the campaign to produce agent-customer interactions; measuring agent performance on the interactions to produce quality metrics; analyzing the metrics to produce a rating; combining quality metrics to produce performance indicators; and using the performance indicators in the planning step of a second campaign or another iteration of the first campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: John Bourne, Ed Murray, Jeff Iannone, Shimon Keren, Nick McLean, Mike Bourke, Jason Fama, Joseph Watson, James Nies, Thomas Lyerly