[June 19, 2013] AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Mobile Devices Having Plurality of Virtual Interfaces Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,468,550) developed by Larry B. Pearson, San Antonio, for "mobile devices having plurality of virtual interfaces." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Mobile devices, systems and methods are described with a plurality of virtual machines, wherein each virtual machine executes a separate virtual interface, or guest operating system. Each guest operating system corresponds to a different virtual device having its own contact list, applications, and so on. A virtual "device" can be controlled by an employer or service provider, and is a secure space that provides authenticated applications that are walled off from another virtual device. A host operating system provides a hardware abstraction layer. A proxy server on the host operating system receives an incoming signal from a remote device on the external network, and routes the incoming signal to one of the first and second virtual machines based on a call context. A method and computer program product for providing a plurality of virtual interfaces on a mobile device are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2010 (12/818,923). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,468,550&OS=8,468,550&RS=8,468,550 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0619HP0619-891469 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]