Granted Patent B2

US 12,712,784 · App. 18/190,306 · Granted Aug 18, 2026

Inventors: Aya Bdeir (New York, NY); Alin Cosmanescu (Tenafly, NJ); Sean Schumer (New York, NY); Stanley Okrasinski (New York, NY); Andrew Tergis (New York, NY); Kristin Salomon (New York, NY); Edward Bear (New York, NY); Julio Liriano (Fort Lee, NJ); David Newton (Rye, NY); John Perkins (Tallahassee, FL); David Sharp (New York, NY); Sameer More (New York, NY); Paul Rothman (Brooklyn, NY)

Assignee: Sphero, Inc.

H04L41/122H04L67/125

Abstract

Claims (10)

1 . A system comprising:

a first physical module physically connected to a plurality of physical modules in a chain configuration, wherein the first physical module comprises an edge-router; and

a remote device electronically communicating with the first physical module via the edge-router, the remote device causing a virtual display of the first physical module and the plurality of physical modules connected in the chain configuration with the first physical module, wherein the remote device is operable to:

transmit a control message to a specific physical module of the plurality of physical modules via the edge-router;

insert a digital block into the virtual display of the first physical module and the plurality of physical module connected in the chain configuration, wherein the digital block is not a physical module; and

transmit messages from the digital block to the one or more physical modules via the edge-router of the first physical module.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the digital block is operable to connect to digital content from a third-party software application.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the digital content is transmitted to a specific physical module of the plurality of physical modules via the edge-router in the first physical module.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the digital block is operable to receive information from one of more physical modules via the edge-router in the first physical module.

5 . The system of claim 1 , where in the remote device is operable to receive topology information from the first physical module via the edge-router, wherein the virtual display is based upon the topology information.

Continuity (3)

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