US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on March 18 for "Contextual avatar presentation based on relationship data" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,529, issued on March 18, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Contextual avatar presentation based on relationship data" was invented by Nigel Bradley (Canton, Ga.), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), Ari Craine (Marietta, Ga.) and Robert Koch (Peachtree Corners, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards presenting an avatar in a virtual reality environment in different ways to different users, based on relationship data including a familiarity level and trust level with each other user. The familiarity level data and/or trust level data can be ...