Inventors:
Joseph Khouri - San Jose CA, US
Mukul Jain - San Jose CA, US
Laurent Philonenko - San Francisco CA, US
Sanjeev Kumar - Sunnyvale CA, US
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:
H04M 3/00, H04M 5/00, H04M 3/42, H04M 1/56, H04M 15/06
US Classification:
37926501, 37926502, 37926511, 37920201, 37914201, 37914204, 37914206
Abstract:
A data processing apparatus is configured for receiving a call comprising multiple callers who are identified in a multi-party caller identification value that is received with the call; retrieving from a database, based on the multi-party caller identification value, information about each of the multiple callers; based on the retrieved information and a collective importance algorithm, determining or selecting one or more call treatment attributes for the call; and processing the call using the one or more call treatment attributes that are determined or selected. For example, a contact center or call center can provide differentiated services based on collective attributes or profiles, or a weighted average priority, of multiple people who are calling together, rather than only taking into account information about a single calling party. Call processing attributes such as priority, queuing, routing, and screen pop-up content, may be selected based on collective data about multiple callers.