Mobile Dashboard for Contact Center Testing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current contact center testing solutions are inflexible, require significant preplanning and resources, lack ability to test mobile devices, have limited modification capabilities, and provide inflexible result reporting, making it difficult to diagnose issues during actual use and monitor ongoing operations effectively.

Innovation Solution

A mobile dashboard system for automated contact center testing, comprising a dashboard server, notification hub, messaging server, and mobile devices, which allows real-time data updates, customizable reporting, and remote monitoring, enabling easy deployment and modification without complex procedures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional contact center testing solutions are deployed, then testing coverage is achieved, but flexibility and ease of modification are poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetesting flexibilityVSAvoiddeployment complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The testing system is designed to be dynamically configurable, allowing test parameters, thresholds, and monitoring preferences to be changed in real-time without redeployment. The mobile dashboard allows executives to dynamically adjust which metrics are monitored and how results are presented, making the system adaptable to changing testing needs while maintaining simple initial deployment through standardized infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows modification of testing parameters, notification thresholds, and dashboard display preferences through configuration files and user settings rather than code changes. Test engineers can adjust sampling rates, alert thresholds, and report formats by changing parameters in configuration files, enabling flexible adaptation without complex deployment procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If comprehensive real-time monitoring is implemented, then issue detection capability is improved, but resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveissue detection capabilityVSAvoidsystem resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements selective monitoring where only critical metrics and anomalies are tracked in real-time with high granularity, while less important metrics are monitored at lower frequencies or aggregated over time periods. The notification hub filters and prioritizes alerts, sending only significant issues to the mobile dashboard, reducing overall resource consumption while maintaining strong issue detection for critical problems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback mechanisms where the mobile dashboard and notification hub learn from historical data and user interactions to optimize monitoring intensity. When systems are operating normally, monitoring intensity is reduced to conserve resources, while automatic intensity increases when anomalies are detected, ensuring high reliability during critical periods while minimizing resource usage during stable operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If mobile dashboard access is provided, then operational accessibility is improved, but data synchronization complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemobile accessibilityVSAvoiddata synchronization complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification hub serves as an intermediary between the contact center testing infrastructure and mobile dashboard devices. It receives test data from the testing system, processes and formats it appropriately, then distributes it to multiple mobile devices through standard messaging protocols. This intermediary layer handles all synchronization complexity centrally, allowing executives to access data on any mobile device without increasing client-side complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified copies of the comprehensive testing data suitable for mobile display. Rather than transmitting raw comprehensive datasets to mobile devices, the notification hub generates condensed, formatted representations of test results optimized for mobile screens and networks. These copied data representations maintain essential information while reducing synchronization complexity and bandwidth requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11178080B2Mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing
Publication Date: 2021.11.16 CYARA SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
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AI summary

A mobile dashboard for automated contact center testing gives up-to-the-minute status reports on your customer experience, enabling you to make operational decisions and drill down to the source of an issue while on the go. A mobile-optimized executive dashboard display can be customized for each unique user, so business and technical stakeholders can filter the display for the customer experience (CX) metrics that are most relevant to them, and configure push notification alerts accordingly.