Patents by Inventor Wendy S. Cook

Wendy S. Cook 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: 9967349
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system including a social client and an intermediate server. A social client may be implemented as a mobile application or embedded as a component of a hosted application. The social client may include features/functions for a user to follow, tag, post, and/or comment on a case, a topic, user(s) concerning the case and/or topic, post(s) tagged to a topic, case(s) tagged by the user, or a combination thereof. The intermediate server may serve as an intermediate between backend system(s) and social client(s). For example, the intermediate server may receive a work order from a backend system, place the work order in an event stream and/or a work folder for the user, mark the work order as in-process when the user completes work, and return the work order to the backend system. The backend system may then mark the work order as having been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Paul E. Brousseau, Wendy S. Cook
  • Publication number: 20150088981
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system including a social client and an intermediate server. A social client may be implemented as a mobile application or embedded as a component of a hosted application. The social client may include features/functions for a user to follow, tag, post, and/or comment on a case, a topic, user(s) concerning the case and/or topic, post(s) tagged to a topic, case(s) tagged by the user, or a combination thereof. The intermediate server may serve as an intermediate between backend system(s) and social client(s). For example, the intermediate server may receive a work order from a backend system, place the work order in an event stream and/or a work folder for the user, mark the work order as in-process when the user completes work, and return the work order to the backend system. The backend system may then mark the work order as having been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Paul E. Brousseau, Wendy S. Cook
  • Patent number: 7295669
    Abstract: A method and system for transferring telephone calls and data between computer programs in a call center. Flow connection modules associated with call center application programs allow data and telephone calls to be transferred from one computer program to another in the call center. The flow connection modules may be combined with a locator program such that the combination replaces the automatic call distributor (“ACD”) in a call center. The flow connection modules enable development of modular call centers, allowing call center agent workstations to be easily increased or decreased. In operation, an application notifies its flow connection module that a call on a telephone in the workstation should be transferred to another application. The flow connection module establishes a data connection with a flow connection module associated with the other application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Denton, Wendy S. Cook
  • Patent number: 6690788
    Abstract: The present integrated work management engine for customer care orchestrates all forms of work relating to the servicing of customer requests across the entire business enterprise. This integrated work management engine brings together all types of disparate communication system components, applications and information storage systems so the business which provides the customer care via these systems can respond to their customer requests in a unified, efficient and effective manner. The integrated work management engine also integrates the real time operation of the front office customer communications and the batch data processing mode of the back office. The integrated work management engine accepts work through multiple access channels, where each work request is automatically mapped to a process flow that specifies the task associated with the handling of the particular work item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Bauer, Keith R. McFarlane, Andrew Derek Flockhart, Lucinda M. Sanders, Gary S. King, Darryl J. Maxwell, Steve R. Russell, Robert Alan Stewart, Wendy S. Cook