Patents by Inventor Dana H. Hangai

Dana H. Hangai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus and method to transition between a media presentation and a virtual environment
    Patent number: 9254438
    Abstract: A virtual universe application and a media (e.g. 3-D movie) presentation application communicate with each other to obtain a location of a current activity application and find, using a search engine or a content addressable index developed during use, a corresponding location accessible from the other application to synchronize the location and time of location and time of scenes in both applications. Point of view can optionally be synchronized and additional search criteria or parameters can be applied to find the best match of views presented to a user when the user toggles between the VU location and the media presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter G. Finn, Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Dana H. Hangai, Keith R. Walker
  • Routing a teleportation request based on compatibility with user contexts
    Patent number: 9256347
    Abstract: A teleportation proxy and teleportation proxy service which monitors the usage of a networked computer or terminal to determine contextual metadata for a user reflecting current usage of the networked computer or terminal. A search engine then searches metadata of virtual universe locations in accordance with at least a portion of said contextual metadata and candidate matches are compared against the contextual metadata to determine suggested teleportation destinations in a virtual universe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter G. Finn, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Dana H. Hangai, Keith R. Walker
  • Routing a Teleportation Request Based on Compatibility with User Contexts
    Publication number: 20110078170
    Abstract: A teleportation proxy and teleportation proxy service which monitors the usage of a networked computer or terminal to determine contextual metadata for a user reflecting current usage of the networked computer or terminal. A search engine then searches metadata of virtual universe locations in accordance with at least a portion of said contextual metadata and candidate matches are compared against the contextual metadata to determine suggested teleportation destinations in a virtual universe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter G. Finn, Rick A. Hamilton, Dana H. Hangai, Keith R. Walker
  • Apparatus and Method to Transition Between a Media Presentation and a Virtual Environment
    Publication number: 20110077085
    Abstract: A virtual universe application and a media (e.g. 3-D movie) presentation application communicate with each other to obtain a location of a current activity application and find, using a search engine or a content addressable index developed during use, a corresponding location accessible from the other application to synchronize the location and time of location and time of scenes in both applications. Point of view can optionally be synchronized and additional search criteria or parameters can be applied to find the best match of views presented to a user when the user toggles between the VU location and the media presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter G. Finn, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Dana H. Hangai, Keith R. Walker