Omnichannel AI Context and Intent Determination

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional customer conversation systems are static, one-size-fits-all platforms that lack proactive and adaptive approaches to understanding customer context and intent, leading to suboptimal customer experiences and inefficient interactions.

Innovation Solution

A machine learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that determines context and intent in omnichannel communications, providing personalized, dynamic conversations across multiple channels, enabling organizations to respond intuitively and efficiently to customer needs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional static customer conversation systems are used, then system simplicity and ease of implementation are maintained, but customer experience quality and adaptability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer experience qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic intent classification by training machine learning models on historical conversation data to adapt to evolving customer communication patterns. The system continuously learns from new interactions to improve its understanding of customer intent across different channels, transforming from a static to a dynamic system that evolves with customer behavior changes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where conversation outcomes and customer responses are fed back into the machine learning models for continuous retraining. This feedback loop enables the system to learn from actual customer interactions and refine its intent classification accuracy over time, improving adaptability without requiring manual reconfiguration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If machine learning based AI techniques are implemented to determine context and intent, then customer interaction quality and responsiveness are improved, but computational resources and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer interaction efficiencyVSAvoidcomputational resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing by pre-training machine learning models on historical data and pre-processing customer communication data into structured formats. This preparation work is done in advance, allowing the trained models to quickly classify intent in real-time conversations without requiring heavy computational resources during actual customer interactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses data copying and replication strategies where historical conversation data is replicated and processed to train multiple versions of the intent classification model. These pre-trained model copies can then serve multiple customers simultaneously, distributing the computational burden and improving efficiency through model reuse rather than creating new models for each interaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Loss of information

If omnichannel communication data is collected and analyzed, then customer journey understanding is improved, but data security risks and privacy concerns increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer journey insightVSAvoiddata security risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary information from omnichannel communication data for training purposes, separating useful patterns from sensitive personal details. By extracting only the features needed for intent classification and discarding or anonymizing personally identifiable information, the system reduces data security risks while maintaining customer journey understanding capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces data anonymization and aggregation as intermediary steps between raw customer communication data and the machine learning models. These intermediaries process and transform the data, removing direct identifiers and combining individual records into aggregated patterns, thereby reducing privacy exposure while preserving the insights needed for improving customer interactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11373045B2Determining context and intent in omnichannel communications using machine learning based artificial intelligence (AI) techniques
Publication Date: 2022.06.28 CONTACTENGINE LTD
  • US11373045B2 patent drawing
  • US11373045B2 patent drawing
  • US11373045B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A system for determining context and intent in a conversation using machine learning (ML) based artificial intelligence (AI) in omnichannel data communications is disclosed. The system may comprise a data store to store and manage data within a network, a server to facilitate operations using information from the one or more data stores, and a ML-based AI subsystem to communicate with the server and the data store in the network. The ML-based AI subsystem may comprise a data access interface to receive data associated with a conversation with a user via a communication channel. The ML-based AI subsystem may comprise a processor to provide a proactive, adaptive, and intelligent conversation by applying hierarchical multi-intent data labeling framework, training at least one model with training data, and generating and deploying a production-ready model based on the trained and retained at least one model.