A dynamic call connection distributor and a related method, the distributor including an agent pool, having information of call agents, the agent pool is at least partly configurable by a plurality of individual call agents, a recipient dialer, including circuitry for dialing at least one number of predefined potential recipients for establishment of a recipient connection, an agent dialer including circuitry for establishing an agent connection from the dynamic connection distributor to a call agent, and a call linker, having circuitry for linking the agent connection with the recipient call.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for coordinating callers with customer service representatives. One of the methods includes in response to receiving identification information from a caller, selecting a virtual machine from a plurality of virtual machines, the virtual machine configured to generate a virtual user interface for an application executing on the virtual machine. The method includes populating the virtual user interface with information about the caller based on the received identification information. The method includes sharing the virtual user interface with an application executing on a computer of a customer service representative. The method includes connecting the caller with the customer service representative.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are used for coordinating callers with customer service representatives. One of the methods includes identifying a number of callers. The method also includes dynamically adjusting a number of customer service representatives based on the number of callers.

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for unlocking and locking enclosures or lockers of a customer service center, for example, responsive to a real-time customer-agent interaction. One disclosed method includes using a remote server to determine a solution to a user request, where the solution includes an identification of a selected locker of a plurality of lockers located at the customer service center, and using the remote server to communicate the selected locker identification and an unlock code to the user via the customer service session of the computer system, where the selected locker includes equipment for the user to satisfy the user request.

A remote assistance controller serves as an intermediary between a user requesting remote assistance and a remote assistor. A remote assistance policy determines what the remote assistor can see or not see on the requestor's computer system, and may additionally determine allowed or disallowed actions by the remote assistor. The remote assistance policy may be defined by the requesting user, or can be a default policy for the remote assistance controller. The remote assistance controller generates views for the requestor and for the remote assistor. When the remote assistor requests an operation on the requestor's computer system, the remote assistance controller checks the remote assistance policy to determine whether the remote assistor is allowed to perform the requested operation. When the requested operation is allowed according to the remote assistance policy, the remote assistance controller allows the requested operation, and refreshes the views for the requestor and the remote assistor.

Technologies for scaling call center support staff include one or more local agent computing devices of a call center that includes an interaction management computing device communicatively coupled to one or more customer computing devices and one or more remote agent computing devices. The interaction management computing device is configured to receive inbound service calls and insert them into a respective service queue. The interaction management computing device is additionally configured to determine whether a service queue response threshold associated with the service queue has been violated as a function of each service call having been inserted into the service queue, identify, in response to a determination that the service queue response threshold associated with the service queue has been violated, one or more remote agents from a queue of available remote agents, and add the identified one or more remote agents to an agent pool associated with the service queue. Additional embodiments are described herein.

A method includes in response to receiving identification information from a caller, selecting a virtual machine from a plurality of virtual machines, the virtual machine configured to generate a virtual user interface for an application executing on the virtual machine. The method includes populating the virtual user interface with information about the caller based on the received identification information. The method includes sharing the virtual user interface with an application executing on a computer of a customer service representative. The method includes connecting the caller with the customer service representative.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are used for coordinating callers with customer service representatives. One of the methods includes identifying a number of callers. The method also includes dynamically adjusting a number of customer service representatives based on the number of callers.

A contact center system and related methods for handling teleservices in voice and data through a plurality of mobile devices such as smartphones is provided. The contact center system is characterized by a very wide functional platform for contact center fully integrated in a single system, with maximum elasticity to increase or decrease capacities based on the characteristics of the cloud, and capable to deliver via an agent mobile platform all the functionality of a fixed-up workstation into a smartphone. The contact center system according to the embodiments is capable to route a call from a customer's device, using a local telecommunications network, to the contact center system, which transforms it into a digital call; the call is assigned to an agent using a mobile platform.

A user of a personal computing device may identify an item of interest displayed in a user interface provided by a network-based service and would like to obtain more information. The user may submit one or more electronic contact requests to a contact service in communication with a contact distribution system in order to obtain more information. The contact distribution system determines accurate, real-time availability of service agents and enables communications between the customer and an agent to be established in accordance with user contact information provided by the user.