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Assignee: IEX Corporation


Location: Richardson, TX
No. of patents: 14

NumberTitleIssue Date
8050955Method for forecasting and managing multimedia contacts
Multimedia contacts are forecasted, propagated, and managed for each period in a range. The number of contacts received in a period is forecasted using historical methods and is propagated to succeeding periods based on the business goals, such as how quickly a cert...
11/01/2011
7848947Performance management system
A performance management system (1) has a database (9) with KPI (10), Results & Ratings (11), and configuration date (12) tables. Configuration functions (8) configure the system to the environment and information management...
12/07/2010
7720706Method and system for providing performance statistics to agents
A method and a system for providing and presenting performance statistics to an agent. A further embodiment of the present invention provides performance comparison reporting between an agent and an agent data group and/or a management unit. This is achieved by coll...
05/18/2010
7383199Method for forecasting and managing multimedia contacts
Multimedia contacts are forecasted, propagated, and managed for each period in a range. The number of contacts received in a period is forecasted using historical methods and is propagated to succeeding periods based on the business goals, such as how quickly a cert...
06/03/2008
7203655Method and system for providing performance statistics to agents
A method and a system for providing and presenting performance statistics to an agent. A further embodiment of the present invention provides performance comparison reporting between an agent and an agent data group and/or a management unit. This is achieved by coll...
04/10/2007
7085728Method for forecasting and managing multimedia contracts
Multimedia contacts are forecasted, propagated, and managed for each period in a range. The number of contacts received in a period are forecasted using historical methods and are propagated to succeeding periods based on the business goals, such as how quickly a ce...
08/01/2006
7058589Method and system for employee work scheduling
A method is provided for assigning a group of agents to a plurality of available schedules, including determining preferences for a plurality of factors for each agent. Each agent provides an order of importance for the plurality of factors. For each factor, a diffe...
06/06/2006
6970829Method and system for skills-based planning and scheduling in a workforce contact center environment
A method of forecasting, allocating and scheduling in a single or multi-site skills-based contact or call center environment organized into a hierarchy of zero or more business units at a first, upper level, one or more contact types at a second, intermediate level,...
11/29/2005
6192346Vacations and holiday scheduling method and system having a bidding object which enables employees to bid and prevent from bidding if higher priority employees have not bid
The present invention provides a vacation and holiday scheduling system. The system includes a variety of objects to assist a business in controlling and managing the scheduling of vacations by their employees and for assisting the employees in bidding on...
02/20/2001
6115746Distributed control of AIN and non-AIN switches and resources in an advanced intelligent network
An apparatus for use in an advanced intelligent network (AIN) having a service control point (SCP) . The apparatus includes a number of functional components "abstracted" into a control hierarchy including a rules engine, one or more enhanced service appl...
09/05/2000
6044355Skills-based scheduling for telephone call centers
A method for scheduling personnel (e.g., agents) in a work environment based on personnel "skill" levels. The method facilitates true skills-based scheduling of agents in a telephone call center using a simulation tool to predict what fraction of schedule...
03/28/2000
5911134Method for planning, scheduling and managing personnel
A method for planning, scheduling and managing personnel in an environment in which there is a varying workload by time of day and by day of week to be staffed with a team having a variable number of servers. The method begins by organizing the team of se...
06/08/1999
5590188Rules-based call routing
A method, using a call processor, for selecting one of a plurality of call centers in a telephone network. The method begins by generating a routing plan comprising one or more rules that control how calls are to be distributed among the call centers. For...
12/31/1996
5289368Force management system user interface
A force management system includes a unique management display system for managing server schedules during a forecast time period. The system generates a schedule management screen which includes a timescale and a set of schedule activity codes for each s...
02/22/1994
 
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