Patents by Inventor Mark Graham Swinhoe

Mark Graham Swinhoe 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 of modifying an online environment
    Patent number: 8951123
    Abstract: An entertainment device comprises a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment, that on-line virtual environment being able to host interactions between a user of the entertainment device and other users of one or more remote entertainment devices, a network communications arrangement operable to receive data representative of the actions of the other users within the on-line virtual environment and to receive data indicative of any supplementary data files interoperable with the on-line virtual environment that are associated with one or more remote entertainment devices of one or more of the other users, a data file searcher operable to search the entertainment device for any supplementary data files indicated by the received data, a data file acquisition arrangement operable to acquire, from a networked device, a copy of a supplementary data file indicated by the received data that was not found on the entertainment device, and a data file integrat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Scott Christopher Waugaman, Ronald Jonas Festejo, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Mark Anderson, Mark Graham Swinhoe
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MODIFYING AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20120115597
    Abstract: An entertainment device comprises a display generator arranged to generate for display a representation of an on-line virtual environment, that on-line virtual environment being able to host interactions between a user of the entertainment device and other users of one or more remote entertainment devices, a network communications arrangement operable to receive data representative of the actions of the other users within the on-line virtual environment and to receive data indicative of any supplementary data files interoperable with the on-line virtual environment that are associated with one or more remote entertainment devices of one or more of the other users, a data file searcher operable to search the entertainment device for any supplementary data files indicated by the received data, a data file acquisition arrangement operable to acquire, from a networked device, a copy of a supplementary data file indicated by the received data that was not found on the entertainment device, and a data file integrat
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Scott Christopher Waugaman, Ronald Jonas Festejo, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Mark Anderson, Mark Graham Swinhoe