Mattersight Granted Two New Patents for Behavioral Analytics Applications

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Jul 16, 2015) - Mattersight Corporation (NASDAQ: MATR), the pioneer in personality-based software applications, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued to the company two new patents.

Mattersight's unique applications leverage advanced linguistic algorithms with consumer behavioral data to improve customer call center interactions and employee performance. Both new patented inventions have enhanced the solutions' ability to more accurately predict and precisely facilitate the scenarios that drive these outcomes.

U.S. Patent Number 9,083,804, titled Optimized Predictive Routing and Methods, relates to Mattersight's Predictive Behavioral Routing solution. The patent covers predicting customer personality types and routing those customers to available agents who are best capable of handling those personalities.

U.S. Patent Number 9,083,801, titled Method and Systems for Analyzing Multichannel Electronic Communication Data, relates to Mattersight's Performance Coaching application. The patent covers aggregating customer communication data from one or more sources and applying a language-based behavioral model to the communication data, as well as providing coaching to call center agents based on the results of the behavioral model.

President and CEO Kelly Conway says that the latest expansion of Mattersight's patent portfolio -- now at 16 -- reflects the company's fundamental and ongoing commitment to technological innovation. "As our clients seek more and better ways to elevate both customer experience and operational value, we are continually pursuing opportunities to advance our technologies. These new inventions enable us to provide our clients with even more robust solutions that help them meet and exceed their goals."

Mattersight offers a complimentary ROI calculator for businesses interested in seeing how its routing solution can improve customer experience and bottom-line metrics. To calculate your company's ROI with Mattersight, visit roi.mattersight.com.

About Mattersight

Mattersight's mission is to help brands have more effective and effortless conversations with their customers. Using a suite of innovative personality-based software applications, Mattersight can analyze and predict customer behavior based on the language exchanged during service and sales interactions. This insight can then facilitate real-time connections between customers and the agents best capable of handling their needs. Mattersight's patented stack of SaaS applications has influenced hundreds of millions of shorter, more satisfying customer interactions. Organizations across the Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology and Telco industries rely on Mattersight to drive customer retention, employee engagement and operating efficiency. An independent research study documents the average return on investment for these organizations is 344%. To learn more about how Mattersight can help your company, please visit www.mattersight.com. Follow Mattersight on Twitter at @Mattersight.