Inventor

HAMILTON II RICK ALLEN

US233 patents

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HAMILTON II RICK ALLEN

IBM

Pack avatar for shared inventory in a virtual universe

Method and apparatus for spawning projected avatars in a virtual universe

Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through delaying of service completion according to geographical-based pricing advantages

Reciprocity and stabilization in dynamic resource reallocation among logically partitioned systems

Employing speech recognition and capturing customer speech to improve customer service

Method and system for merging disparate virtual universes entities

Cloning objects in a virtual universe

Method and system for merging disparate virtual universes entities

Facilitating overall grid environment management by monitoring and distributing grid activity

Intelligent redirection of vehicular traffic due to congestion and real-time performance metrics

Conditional battery charging system

Computer implemented method for automatically controlling selection of a grid provider for a grid job

Data processing system and method for distributing a device driver to a plurality of client computer systems each executing different operating systems

Method and apparatus for waypoint services navigational system

Grouping electronic reply messages

Employing speech recognition and key words to improve customer service

Apparatus and method for monitoring instant messaging accounts

Method and apparatus for providing user support based on contextual information

Method and apparatus for providing user support through an intelligent help agent

Notification processing system

Dynamic vehicle grid infrastructure to allow vehicles to sense and respond to traffic conditions

Managing escalating resource needs within a grid environment

Managing analysis of a degraded service in a grid environment

Dynamic vehicle grid infrastructure to allow vehicles to sense and respond to traffic conditions

Minimizing complex decisions to allocate additional resources to a job submitted to a grid environment

Method and apparatus for enhancing instant messaging systems

Apparatus and method for blocking television commercials with a content interrogation program

Method and system for calculating least-cost routes based on historical fuel efficiency, street mapping and location based services

Automating responses by grid providers to bid requests indicating criteria for a grid job

Energy usage monitoring and balancing method and system

Viewing pattern data collection

User identification enabled elevator control method and system

Active session queue management using contextual systems with an instant messaging proxy service

Automated risk assessment tool for AIX-based computer systems

Tracking apparatus and associated method for a radio frequency enabled reminder system

Setting operation based resource utilization thresholds for resource use by a process

Automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider

Text transcriptions for voice communications

Systems and methods for memory migration

Automated management of software images for efficient resource node building within a grid environment

HAMILTON II RICK ALLEN

Spawning projected avatars in a virtual universe

Spawning projected avatars in a virtual universe

Method and system for splitting virtual universes into distinct entities

FINN PETER GEORGE

Object size modifications based on avatar distance

Object based avatar tracking

BOSS GREGORY JENSEN

Power profile management method and system

Power management method and system

BHOGAL KULVIR S

Shared inventory item donation in a virtual universe

DO LYDIA MAI

Aging and elimination of avatars and associated objects from computer simulated displayed virtual universes

FELLENSTEIN CRAIG WILLIAM

Estimating future grid job costs by classifying grid jobs and storing results of processing grid job microcosms