APPARATUS AND METHODS ENHANCING CALL ROUTING TO AND WITHIN CALL-CENTERS

摘要

A computerized telephony call center (121) for serving a customer base has a central switch (123) connected to a plurality of telephones (136, 138) at operator workstations (131, 132) and adapted to route the calls to individual ones of the telephones, and also connected to a public switched telephone network (100), and a first processor (223) connected to the central switch (123) by a high-speed data link (212) and to the telephone network by a digital network connection. The first processor (223) is adapted to monitor transactional activity of the central switch (123), to process the activity information according to selected routines in the processor, and to communicate processed information to a second processor (224) over the digital network connection. The digital connections may be a TCP/IP connection. In a preferred embodiment, the first processor is connected by a LAN (301) to network interfaces including a video display unit and input apparatus proximate individual ones of the plurality of telephones connected to the central switch.