ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,961, issued on May 27, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Network service center with improved virtual immersion during service durations via alternative virtual experiences" was invented by Jie Hui (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Joohyung Kim (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Continuous and non-episodic user sessions in a virtual world are facilitated by providing a virtual service center with alternative virtual experiences selected to retain user presence in the virtual world. The virtual service center is associated with a mobile network operator (MNO) of a telecommunications network and is provided to enable ...