Patents by Inventor Christopher Jimison

Christopher Jimison 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).

  • Patent number: 8332499
    Abstract: A virtual space management system includes: a plurality of space management servers for respectively managing a plurality of partial spaces obtained by dividing a virtual space; and a communication control server for relaying communication between at least one of the plurality of space management servers and a user terminal. Each space management server executes a process relating to a transition in which a position in the virtual space associated with the user terminal transitions from inside a partial space managed by another space management server to inside a partial space managed by the local space management server. The communication control server maintains communication connection with the user terminal during execution of the process relating to the transition, and changes a transmission destination of data received from the user terminal to the local space management server managing the partial space to which the transition has been made according to the transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kazushi Yoshida, Akihito Nagata, Shinichiro Mikami, Juichi Takahashi, Christopher Jimison, Johnnemann Winthrop Nordhagen, David Peter Goodenough
  • Publication number: 20100146097
    Abstract: A virtual space management system includes: a plurality of space management servers for respectively managing a plurality of partial spaces obtained by dividing a virtual space; and a communication control server for relaying communication between at least one of the plurality of space management servers and a user terminal. Each space management server executes a process relating to a transition in which a position in the virtual space associated with the user terminal transitions from inside a partial space managed by another space management server to inside a partial space managed by the local space management server. The communication control server maintains communication connection with the user terminal during execution of the process relating to the transition, and changes a transmission destination of data received from the user terminal to the local space management server managing the partial space to which the transition has been made according to the transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazushi Yoshida, Akihito Nagata, Shinichiro Mikami, Juichi Takahashi, Christopher Jimison, Johnnemann Winthrop Nordhagen, David Peter Goodenough
  • Publication number: 20100146409
    Abstract: A virtual space management system includes a space management server for managing a virtual space, and a communication control server. The space management server stores a plurality of event information items, relating to the virtual space and to be transmitted to a user terminal, in a temporary buffer in a manner that specifies a transmission order of each event information item, reads out and outputs the plurality of event information items stored in the temporary buffer in order to the communication control server, and changes information stored in the temporary buffer. The communication control server transmits the event information output by the space management server to the user terminal in order. The space management server varies an amount of data to be output per unit time to the communication control server according to an amount of data transmittable per unit time by the communication control server to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazushi Yoshida, Christopher Jimison, Shinichiro Mikami, Juichi Takahashi