Mark H Meadows

US Patent:

20080120558, May 22, 2008

Filed:

Nov 16, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/560743

Inventors:

Paco Xander Nathan - Austin TX, US
Cathi Joann Cox - Los Angeles CA, US
Florian Thomas Leibert - Am Weigert, DE
Mark Stephen Meadows - Marina del Rey CA, US
Jan Susan Mallis - East Ballina, AU

International Classification:

G06F 3/048
G06F 13/00

US Classification:

715764, 719318

Abstract:

Systems and methods for managing a virtual avatar with migrational ability, and brokering information, are provided. The persistent avatar exists in a plurality of virtual environments and includes attributes generated by an attribute generator, an enabler for enabling virtual environments to access the stored attribute data, and a migrator for allowing the avatar to migrate from one virtual environment to another while the attributes of the persistent avatar remain substantially constant. The enabler utilizes at least one client based on protocol suite. Stored attribute data is modifiable by experiences in any virtual environment. User of the persistent avatar is notified when events occur in any virtual environment, or within real life, by monitoring for events with a monitor, assessing importance of the event with an assessor, and notifying the owner with an informer of the event if it exceeds a threshold of importance.

US Patent:

20080221892, Sep 11, 2008

Filed:

Dec 19, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/960507

Inventors:

Paco Xander Nathan - Austin TX, US
Cathi Joann Cox - Los Angeles CA, US
Florian Thomas Leibert - Am Weigert, DE
Mark Stephen Meadows - Marina del Rey CA, US
Jan Susan Mallis - East Ballina, AU

International Classification:

G06F 17/27

US Classification:

704257, 704 9

Abstract:

The autonomous avatar driver is useful in association with language sources. A sourcer may receive dialog from the language source. It may also, in some embodiments, receive external data from data sources. A segmentor may convert characters, represent particles and split dialog. A parser may then apply a link grammar, analyze grammatical mood, tag the dialog and prune dialog variants. A semantic engine may lookup token frames, generate semantic lexicons and semantic networks, and resolve ambiguous co-references. An analytics engine may filter common words from dialog, analyze N-grams, count lemmatized words, and analyze nodes. A pragmatics analyzer may resolve slang, generate knowledge templates, group proper nouns and estimate affect of dialog. A recommender may generate tag clouds, cluster the language sources into neighborhoods, recommend social networking to individuals and businesses, and generate contextual advertising. Lastly, a response generator may generate responses for the autonomous avatar using the analyzed dialog. The response generator may also incorporate the generated recommendations.