AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA, has been assigned a patent (10,680,902) developed by Garrison, Joseph, Villa Rica, GA, Haislip, Kim, Stone Mountain, GA, and Webb, Frank, Snohomish, WA, for “virtual agents for facilitation of network based storage reporting.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques for virtual agent facilitation of network-based storage reporting are provided. A method can comprise determining, by a virtual agent comprising a processor and located at a node, first information indicative of data storage associated with the node, wherein the virtual agent is configured to be instantiated at the node in response to an instantiation instruction, and comprises non-proprietary, publicly available open source software. The method can also comprise outputting, by the virtual agent, the first information for reporting and forecasting of future capacity growth on the node or a network device of a network to which the node is communicatively coupled.”

The patent application was filed on August 31, 2016 (15/253,028).