Patents by Inventor Adrian Kieran O'Grady

Adrian Kieran O'Grady 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 administering modular online environments
    Patent number: 8606904
    Abstract: In a modular on-line virtual environment, in which each module of the on-line virtual environment has a plurality of parallel instances each able to host a limited number of users, a server arranged to administer the modular on-line virtual environment comprises a network communications arrangement operable to receive data representative of the actions of users within an instance of a first module of the modular on-line virtual environment, and to transmit to each user within that instance of that module data representative of the actions of each other user within that instance of that module, behavior analysis means operable to analyze user behavior within that instance of the first module, in which if the behavior of two or more users satisfies a predetermined criterion then the two or more users are classified as belonging to a social group comprising the two or more users, module instance selection means operable to select an instance of a second module for a user when that user moves within the modular o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Scott Christopher Waugaman, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Adrian Kieran O'Grady, Jonathan Leslié Venables
  • Apparatus And Method Of Administering Modular Online Environments
    Publication number: 20110185057
    Abstract: In a modular on-line virtual environment, in which each module of the on-line virtual environment has a plurality of parallel instances each able to host a limited number of users, a server arranged to administer the modular on-line virtual environment comprises a network communications arrangement operable to receive data representative of the actions of users within an instance of a first module of the modular on-line virtual environment, and to transmit to each user within that instance of that module data representative of the actions of each other user within that instance of that module, behaviour analysis means operable to analyse user behaviour within that instance of the first module, in which if the behaviour of two or more users satisfies a predetermined criterion then the two or more users are classified as belonging to a social group comprising the two or more users, module instance selection means operable to select an instance of a second module for a user when that user moves within the modula
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE LIMITED
    Inventors: Scott Christopher Waugaman, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Adrian Kieran O'Grady, Jonathan Leslie Venables