Contact Center Dialogue Analysis for High Customer Effort Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing contact center systems struggle to identify and address interactions associated with high customer effort, leading to customer dissatisfaction and inefficient resource utilization due to systemic and representative-related issues, which are often not adequately detected in random sampling reviews.

Innovation Solution

A contact center system that generates dialogue data, identifies communication sessions with high customer effort through keyword analysis, and displays user-selectable records, enabling comprehensive review and coaching opportunities for representatives.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If random sampling reviews are used to evaluate customer interactions, then review complexity is reduced, but detection precision of high customer effort interactions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereview complexityVSAvoiddetection precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual random sampling review with an automated keyword analysis system. The contact center system automatically generates dialogue data, identifies keywords associated with high customer effort, and flags relevant communication sessions without requiring manual review of random samples. This substitution of mechanical/manual processes with automated computational analysis resolves the contradiction by achieving both low complexity and high precision simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive review of all communication sessions is conducted, then detection precision improves, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection precisionVSAvoidreview efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the most relevant communication sessions for review by identifying keywords associated with high customer effort. Instead of reviewing all communication sessions or random samples, the system extracts and flags specifically those sessions containing keywords that indicate high customer effort perceptions. This extraction approach achieves high detection precision while maintaining productivity by focusing review resources only on relevant cases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Productivity

If keyword analysis is implemented to identify high effort interactions, then resource utilization improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The contact center system performs self-service by automatically generating dialogue data, identifying keywords, and flagging high customer effort interactions without requiring external manual analysis. The system uses its own computational resources to analyze communication sessions and identify patterns, eliminating the need for extensive external review resources. This self-service capability improves resource utilization while the automation actually reduces overall system complexity compared to manual processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12530707B2Customer effort evaluation in a contact center system
Publication Date: 2026.01.20 STATE FARM MUTAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
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AI summary

A contact center system can track and evaluate dialogue data, telephony data, and/or application usage data associated with communication sessions between customers and representatives. The contact center system can identify communication sessions that have dialogue data containing keywords of one or more keyword categories, such as keyword categories associated with perceptions of high customer effort, and/or based on values of other key performance indicators. Users can use the contact center system to investigate the dialogue data, telephony data, and/or application usage data for identified communication sessions, for example to identify opportunities to train representatives to use alternate language during communication sessions, revise procedures in the contact center, or otherwise reduce perceptions of customer effort.