System and method for calculating and displaying estimated wait times for transaction request based on the skill required to process the transaction request

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PATENT NO 8209210
APP PUB NO 20080300956A1
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12026803

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A reception management system for handling transactions includes a plurality of ACMs (Automated Contract/Consulting Terminals) for receiving procedure requests for predetermined transactions from customers, a plurality of ROTs (Remote Operation Terminals) to be employed by an operator for handling the procedure requests, a server for storing information for managing the operators for each transaction skill, and information about queues formed for each transaction skill upon a procedure request accepted from an ACM, and a queue monitoring terminal for monitoring the queues by receiving information from the SACD server.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Moriya, Tsutomu Kanagawa-ken, JP 11 275
Nishikawa, Akira Tokyo-to, JP 76 780
Yokote, Masato Kanagawa-ken, JP 9 296

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