At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

William Knotts

James H Pratt

Eric Martin Zavesky

Miranda Huet

Yupeng Jia

Gregory Wesley Edwards

Donald Perciful

Martin Patrick McEnroe

Jun Yan

Systems may provide feedback that may include antenna selection or mobile device configuration. Antennas may be automatically configured throughout the device or the orientation or location of the mobile device may be altered to increase performance. Historical performance information of the mobile device may be maintained in order to determine proactive manipulations of the mobile device. In addition, multiple mobile devices may cooperatively determine the orientation or location that may increase performance.

Antenna selection and device orientation

Virtual assistants (VAs) can be managed in interactions with communication devices (and associated users) or other VAs. A communication management component (CMC) can track an interaction between a VA and a communication device of a user or another VA with regard to an event. The CMC can analyze information relating to the interaction to determine a context of the interaction. The CMC can manage the VA, the involvement of the communication device in the interaction, or the other VA based on the context. When indicated by the context, the CMC can modify characteristics associated with the VA to enhance the interaction. When another communication device or another VA enter the interaction in progress, the CMC can determine interaction update information, based on the tracking of the interaction, and can communicate the interaction update information to the other communication device (and associated user) or other VA.

Automated assistant context and protocol

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, monitoring for storage of information, determining a subset of the information that satisfies an originality threshold, determining the subset of the information satisfies a shareability criterion, generating metadata that includes a first identification of a first user associated with generating the subset of the information via the user interface of the first computing device and a second identification of a topic of the subset of the information and responsive to a match between a data request and the topic of information, providing a computing device with access to the first identification of the first user and to the stored information. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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