Inventor

SEAMAN JAMES W

US169 patents

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SEAMAN JAMES W

IBM

Reducing a display quality of an area in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources

Modifying time progression rates in a virtual universe

Controlling and using virtual universe wish lists

Resource exchange management within a cloud computing environment

Facilitating overall grid environment management by monitoring and distributing grid activity

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

Determining a capacity of a grid environment to handle a required workload for a virtual grid job request

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

Variable rate travel fee based upon vehicle occupancy

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

Method, system, and computer program product for a dynamic virtual shopping area based on user preferences and history

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

Computer implemented method for estimating future grid job costs by classifying grid jobs and storing results of processing grid job microcosms

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

Coordinating the monitoring, management, and prediction of unintended changes within a grid environment

Verifying resource functionality before use by a grid job submitted to a grid environment

Method for controlling access to a target application

Vehicle collision avoidance system enhancement using in-car air bag deployment system

Market segmentation analyses in virtual universes

Travel fee rate setting based upon travel mode and convenience

Airport traffic management

Automatically building a locally managed virtual node grouping to handle a grid job requiring a degree of resource parallelism within a grid environment

Method for hierarchical audio conflict control

HAMILTON II RICK A

Modifying a display quality of an area in a virtual universe according to avatar characteristics

Collapsing areas of a region in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources

Controlling and using virtual universe wish lists

Collapsing areas of a region in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources

Controlling and using virtual universe wish lists

Compensating participants of virtual environments

Smart virtual objects of a virtual universe independently select display quality adjustment settings to conserve energy consumption of resources supporting the virtual universe

Random and deterministic travel fees

DAWSON CHRISTOPHER J

Region access authorization in a virtual environment

Dynamic location generation within a virtual world

Updating data stores of virtual worlds based on data stores external to the virtual worlds

Dynamic provisioning of resources within a cloud computing environment

Optimizing cloud service delivery within a cloud computing environment

Reserving services within a cloud computing environment

Cloud computing roaming services

BOSS GREGORY J

Adaptive vehicle configuration

Tracking vehicle maintenance using sensor detection

Tracking vehicle maintenance using sensor detection

Location-based vehicle maintenance scheduling

ACTIVISION PUBLISHING INC

Collapsing areas of a region in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources

FELLENSTEIN CRAIG WILLIAM

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

FORK MICHAEL J

Object tag metadata and image search

KULKARNI GAURAV N

System and method for managing virtual world environments based upon existing physical environments

GARCIA KELLEY K

Creating and using secure communications channels for virtual universes

FED HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP

System and method for edge management of grid environments

PATERSON KEVIN G

Enhanced adaptive optimization and presentation of on-line map data