Robert E Hood

US Patent:

8128487, Mar 6, 2012

Filed:

Oct 15, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/872597

Inventors:

Robert A. Hood - Boca Raton FL, US
Robert C. McGinley - Olympia WA, US
James W. Seaman - Falls Church VA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

A63F 13/12

US Classification:

463 25, 463 23, 463 29, 463 30, 463 42, 2731381, 273 39, 705 1412, 705 17, 705 39

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and computer program products for compensating participants of events or activities of virtual environments, such as on-line games, digital or virtual worlds, and virtual universes are disclosed. One or more embodiments may comprise conducting an event, measuring event participation by the participant, and compensating the participant based upon the measured participation. Various embodiments may compensate the participant based upon the amount of time the participant spends at the event, while other embodiments may compensate the participant based upon amounts or types of activity of the participant while attending the event. Some embodiments may compensate the participant based upon such activity as chat activity, keyboard activity, and mouse activity. Some embodiments may compensate the participant based upon one or more referrals that the participant makes other participants.

US Patent:

7263583, Aug 28, 2007

Filed:

Oct 5, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/959859

Inventors:

Robert A. Hood - Boca Raton FL, US
Alan L. Stuart - Scarsdale NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 12/14

US Classification:

711114, 705400

Abstract:

In one aspect the invention provides a signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions that are executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations to determine a maintenance fee for a data storage system. The operations include monitoring at least one data storage device during operation of the data storage system to determine a duty cycle and determining a current value of the maintenance fee based at least in part on the determined duty cycle. In a further disk drive-based embodiment the operations may include, or be instead, determining a disk drive redundancy configuration of disk drives of a data storage system. The operations then compare the determined duty cycle to a threshold value and assert a redundancy configuration change signal based on the result of the comparison. For a RAID configuration embodiment having a RAID level, the asserting operation asserts a RAID level change signal based on the result of the comparison.

US Patent:

20070288401, Dec 13, 2007

Filed:

Apr 16, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/735546

Inventors:

Robert Hood - Boca Raton FL, US
Alan Stuart - Scarsdale NY, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
G06F 12/00

US Classification:

705400000, 711114000

Abstract:

In one aspect the invention provides a signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions that are executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations to determine a maintenance fee for a data storage system. The operations include monitoring at least one data storage device during operation of the data storage system to determine a duty cycle and determining a current value of the maintenance fee based at least in part on the determined duty cycle. In a further disk drive-based embodiment the operations may include, or be instead, determining a disk drive redundancy configuration of disk drives of a data storage system. The operations then compare the determined duty cycle to a threshold value and assert a redundancy configuration change signal based on the result of the comparison. For a RAID configuration embodiment having a RAID level, the asserting operation asserts a RAID level change signal based on the result of the comparison.

US Patent:

20100138455, Jun 3, 2010

Filed:

Dec 2, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/326228

Inventors:

Neal J. Alewine - Lake Worth FL, US
Robert A. Hood - Boca Raton FL, US
James W. Seaman - Falls Church VA, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 3/048
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707803, 715706, 707E17055

Abstract:

A system for detecting inappropriate content in a virtual world environment has and a corresponding method utilizes a rating unit for rating each of one or more virtual objects based upon its content. The system has and the method utilizes a tagging unit for tagging each of the one or more virtual objects with its respective rating, an object tagging database for storing ratings of the one or more virtual objects, and a policy database for storing policies associated with the ratings and the regions. Further the system has and the method utilizes an object monitor for monitoring the movement of each of the one or more virtual objects, a security scanner for scanning each of the one or more virtual objects to determine the rating of each of the one or more virtual objects, and an enforcement module to enforce the policies of the policy database based upon the rating and the respective region.

US Patent:

40372154, Jul 19, 1977

Filed:

Apr 30, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/682222

Inventors:

Richard Eugene Birney - Boca Raton FL
Michael Ian Davis - Boca Raton FL
Robert Allen Hood - Boca Raton FL
Lynn Allan Graybiel - Boca Raton FL
Samuel Kahn - Mountain View CA
William Steese Osborne - Boca Raton FL

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 920

US Classification:

364200

Abstract:

Active address keys (AAK) are translated into respective addressabilities in physical main memory. Each addressability comprises one or more physical blocks which may be scattered in the main memory. Each address key represents the assigned addressability in main memory for a logical address space. Plural key register sections may be loaded with the same or different address keys. For each storage access request, received from a processor or I/O channel, AAK select circuits outgate to the translator the key in the key register section corresponding to the type of the current storage access request to determine the addressability available to the access request. Each address key identifies a particular stack of one or more segmentation registers. Each segmentation register can be assigned the address of any segment (i. e. a block of contiguous physical addresses located anywhere in the main memory).

US Patent:

57085633, Jan 13, 1998

Filed:

Jul 18, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/683346

Inventors:

William Vincent Cranston - Boca Raton FL
Robert Allen Hood - Boca Raton FL
Frederick Charles Yentz - Boca Raton FL
Jose Platon Basco - West Palm Beach FL

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H05K 700

US Classification:

361683

Abstract:

A computer includes a main enclosure for housing a plurality of computer components. A subenclosure or card cage for housing a planar circuit board, including a CPU, and at least one accessory board may be removably secured within the main enclosure, wherein the subenclosure, planar circuit board, and accessory circuit board may be selectively removed from the main enclosure as a unit. A connection device is provided to releasably electrically connect at least the planar circuit board to one of the computer components housed within the main enclosure.

US Patent:

40429130, Aug 16, 1977

Filed:

Apr 30, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/681982

Inventors:

Richard Eugene Birney - Boca Raton FL
Michael Ian Davis - Boca Raton FL
Lynn Allan Graybiel - Boca Raton FL
Robert Allen Hood - Boca Raton FL
Samuel Kahn - Mount View CA
William Steese Osborne - Boca Raton FL

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 900

US Classification:

364200

Abstract:

The disclosure describes instruction operated controls for loading or storing address key values into or from one or more address key register sections in a key-register-controlled addressing system. The controls load or store one or all key register sections of an address key register (AKR) in a processor from or to a word in either a main memory or a general purpose register (GPR). Both the load or store controls are operated by the same instruction format, in which one field indicates whether the operation is to be a load or store of the designated AKR section(s). Another field designates one AKR section, or all AKR sections, which are to be loaded or stored. A still further field designates whether the operation is to be from or to main memory or a GPR. The disclosure provides circuits which operate with microcode to perform these operations.

US Patent:

40372146, Jul 19, 1977

Filed:

Apr 30, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/681984

Inventors:

Richard Eugene Birney - Boca Raton FL
Michael Ian Davis - Boca Raton FL
Robert Allen Hood - Boca Raton FL

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1300

US Classification:

364200

Abstract:

A plurality of key register sections in a processor respectively associated with different machine-sensed types of accesses to a main storage of a computer system. A processor address key register (AKR) includes the following sections: (1) a section associated with an instruction-fetch type access, (2) a section associated with a source-operand fetch type access, and (3) a section associated with a sink-operand store/fetch type access. Other key register sections may be associated with respective sub-channel store/fetch type accesses. Circuits are provided which sense the different access types to select and outgate a key contained in the corresponding key register section. The values of the keys are associated with different addressabilities (i. e. address spaces). Each different key value is associated with a different stack of translation registers for containing the block addresses in real storage currently assigned to the respective addressabilities.