AT&T Assigned Patent

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA, has been assigned a patent (8,924,879) developed by de los Reyes Gustavo, Fair Haven, NJ, Macwan Sanjay, Marlboro, NJ, Xu Gang, Piscataway, NJ, Shirokmann Howard, Point Pleasant, NJ, Rosencrantz Rachel, Boulder, CO, and Jayawardena Thusitha, Holmdel, NJ, for a “method and system for controlling physical components via a virtual environment.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that are executable by a processor, the set of instructions being operable to store a virtual representation of a plurality of physical components, display the virtual representation, receive user interaction with at least one of the virtual representations and send a command to the physical component corresponding to the user interaction.”

The patent application was filed on October 22, 2013(14/060,208)