US 12,190,868 B2
Customer advocacy through a virtual assistant coupled to a contact center
Jonathan Braganza, Ottawa (CA); and Logendra Naidoo, Ottawa (CA)
Assigned to Mitel Networks Corporation, Ontario (CA)
Filed by MITEL NETWORKS CORPORATION, Kanata (CA)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/884,148.
Prior Publication US 2024/0054993 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. H04M 3/493 (2006.01); G06Q 30/016 (2023.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 15/08 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/016 (2013.01); H04M 3/4936 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented on a computing system, wherein the method comprises:
analyzing a transcript, by a service analyzer of a contact center application being executed by the computing system, of a communications session between a customer operating a customer device and a virtual assistant to determine a customer query;
the service analyzer analyzing the customer query and a search engine generating supplemental information from a customer interaction database including extracted information from the transcript and an original conversation between an agent and a customer, the customer interaction database including the supplemental information stored in response to the customer query, wherein analyzing the customer query further comprises:
extracting one or more triples describing relationships between entities and objects of the customer query;
aligning the one or more triples with a seed dictionary including a collection of linguistic rules based in part on customer-based artifact;
extracting one or more topics from the customer query by categorizing text of the customer query and segmenting the customer query into a plurality of discrete bins; and
storing one or more aligned triples and one or more topics in the customer interaction database; and
the contact center application sending the supplemental information during the communication session or in a subsequent communication session to the customer device by the virtual assistant.