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System for routing electronic mails
Assignee: Alcatel Lucent SAS
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Filing: 1997-02-06
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Granted: 1998-06-09
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Expires: 2017-02-06
Abstract
Abstract A system for routing electronic mails to one of a plurality of support persons in a processing center is disclosed. Each person has a skill set that is suitable for responding to a certain type of e-mails. The system comprises an e-mail server for receiving the e-mail from a sender, an information extractor for extracting relevant information from the e-mail, and a router for routing the e-mail. The system contains a database for storing information related to all persons who can answer e-mails. The system also contains a server for storing the history of all activities in the system. The router can make routing decisions based on the information stored in the database and the server.
Inventors
- 👤 Alec Miloslavsky
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 12:30
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N7/00; H04N7/14; H04N7/15; G; G06; G06Q; G06Q10/00; G06Q10/10; G06Q10/107; H04L; H04L51/00; H04L51/21; H04L51/214; H04N7/141; H04N7/148; H04M; H04M2201/00; H04M2201/50; H04M2242/00; H04M2242/22; H04M3/00; H04M3/42; H04M3/42025; H04M3/42034; H04M3/42059; H04M3/42314; H04M3/42323; H04M3/50; H04M3/51; H04M3/5183; H04M3/53; H04M3/5307; H04M7/00; H04M7/0024; H04M7/0054; H04M7/12; H04M7/1205; H04M7/128
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
119 words
A system for routing electronic mail (e-mail) to one of a plurality of support persons in a processing center, each of said support persons having a skill set suitable for responding to a certain type of e-mails, the system comprising: an e-mail server for receiving said e-mail from a sender; an information extractor adapted for extracting relative information from said e-mail; and a router for routing said e-mail to a selected one of said support persons based on said skill set and said extracted information; wherein the system is adapted to further process said e-mail in the event the support person to which the e-mail is first routed does not respond to the e-mail within a pre-programmed time interval.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
119 words
A system for routing electronic mail (e-mail) to one of a plurality of support persons in a processing center, each of said support persons having a skill set suitable for responding to a certain type of e-mails, the system comprising: an e-mail server for receiving said e-mail from a sender; an information extractor adapted for extracting relative information from said e-mail; and a router for routing said e-mail to a selected one of said support persons based on said skill set and said extracted information; wherein the system is adapted to further process said e-mail in the event the support person to which the e-mail is first routed does not respond to the e-mail within a pre-programmed time interval.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
35 words
The system of claim 1 further comprising a server for recording activity of said processing center, and wherein said routing performed by said router uses said recorded activity in said server in making routing decisions.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
30 words
The system of claim 2 wherein said activity includes number of e-mails processed by said selected support person and number of e-mails waiting to be processed by said selected person.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
45 words
The system of claim 1 further comprising a database for storing information on said plurality of support persons in said center, including the skill sets of the support persons and wherein said router uses said stored information in said data base in making routing decisions.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
The system of claim 4 wherein said database further stores information about said sender, and said router further uses said sender information in said database in making routing decisions.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
40 words
The system of claim 4 wherein prior contacts between said support persons and senders of said e-mail are stored in the database, and said routing performed by said router uses said stored information about prior contacts in making routing decisions.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
12 words
The system of claim 1 wherein said extractor comprises plural extraction algorithms.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
19 words
The system of claim 7 wherein different extraction algorithms may be selected from among the plurality of extraction algorithms.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
The system of claim 1 further comprising a parser, wherein said information extractor directs said parser to search for keywords in said e-mail.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
18 words
The system of claim 1 wherein said information extractor extracts one or more e-mail addresses from said e-mail.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
17 words
The system of claim 1 wherein said information extractor extracts a time stamp related to said e-mail.
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