Patents by Inventor Nick Ryan

Nick Ryan 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).

  • Entertainment device and method
    Patent number: 8632408
    Abstract: An entertainment device operable to connect to a first on-line virtual environment comprises a group membership selector operable to select members of a group of entertainment devices connected to a first on-line virtual environment comprising a plurality of connected entertainment devices, a server evaluator operable to evaluate a plurality of servers of a second on-line virtual environment according to one or more criteria while the entertainment device is connected to the first on-line virtual environment, a server selector operable to select at least a first server of the second on-line virtual environment based upon the evaluation while the entertainment device is connected to the first on-line virtual environment, and a storage arrangement operable to cause the storage of server selection data defining the selected server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Tomas Owen Gillo, Scott Christopher Waugaman, Mitchell Goodwin, Mark Horneff, Nick Ryan
  • ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20120071244
    Abstract: An entertainment device operable to connect to a first on-line virtual environment comprises a group membership selector operable to select members of a group of entertainment devices connected to a first on-line virtual environment comprising a plurality of connected entertainment devices, a server evaluator operable to evaluate a plurality of servers of a second on-line virtual environment according to one or more criteria whilst the entertainment device is connected to the first on-line virtual environment, a server selector operable to select at least a first server of the second on-line virtual environment based upon the evaluation whilst the entertainment device is connected to the first on-line virtual environment, and a storage arrangement operable to cause the storage of server selection data defining the selected server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Tomas Owen Gillo, Scott Christopher Waugaman, Mitchell Robert Jay Goodwin, Mark Andrew Horneff, Nick Ryan
  • Apparatus And Method Of Avatar Customisation
    Publication number: 20100203968
    Abstract: An entertainment device comprises skeletal modelling means to control placements of a three dimensional mesh representing some or all of a user avatar in response to the position of one or more skeletal components of the user avatar, skeleton modification means to modify one or more physical properties of one or more skeletal components of the user avatar via a user interface, and rendering means to render the user avatar responsive to the modified user avatar skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew George Gill, Keith Thomas Ribbons, John Foster, Mark Horneff, Nick Ryan