SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ROUTING CALLS TO CALL CENTER AGENTSIN AN AGENT SURPLUS CONDITION BASED ON SERVICE LEVELS

摘要

The system for automatically routing calls to call center agents in an age nt surplus condition provides the call center administrator with an automatic agent assignment paradigm which functions to automatically increase the efficiency of assigning multiple skill agents to contacts. The presence of an agent surplu s condition provides the present system with a plurality of choices in the assignment of the agent to process a presently received contact. Since the agents who staff the call center include multiple skill agents, the system must make a determination of not only which of the available agents is the best equipped to handle the present contact, but also how that assignment statistically effects the efficiency of successive assignments of agents to contacts next received, based upon the past performance of the agents and the call center. Since the traffic load presented to the call center tends to be highly variable and of content that is difficult to predict, the present system provides several automatic agent assignment paradigms tha t each have a statistically different impact on the performance of the call center, based upon the quality and quantity of the incoming calls.