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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2022
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Zhi Cui, Sugar Hill, GA (US);
Paul Edward Smith, Jr., Heath, TX (US);
Venson Shaw, Kirkland, WA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system allocates resources of a smart community to respond to an event; the resources include robots in smart homes of the smart community having smart home controllers, and each robot includes a first group of software modules comprising a first personality of that robot. The method also includes informing the smart home controllers regarding tasks to be performed by the robots, where each robot changes to a second personality to perform the response at least in part; the second personality includes a second group of software modules, and each of the robots informs the smart home controller associated with the robot regarding the second personality. Other embodiments are disclosed.