Keith D Walker

US Patent:

8386930, Feb 26, 2013

Filed:

Jun 5, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/478982

Inventors:

Donna N. Dillenberger - Hawthorne NY, US
Neal M. Keller - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Brian M. O'Connell - Research Triangle Park NC, US
Clifford A. Pickover - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Keith R. Walker - Austin TX, US
Alexander Zlatsin - Yorktown Heights NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715706, 715757

Abstract:

Contextual data center management utilizing a virtual environment is described. In one embodiment, there is a data center management tool for managing a physical data center from a representation of the physical data center operating in a virtual universe. The data center management tool includes a data center contextual object component configured to obtain a data center contextual object that describes operational information of the physical data center in the virtual universe. An operational change component is configured to implement at least one operational change to the representation of the physical data center in the virtual universe. The at least one operational change is implemented as a function of the data center contextual object. A management component is configured to manage the physical data center pursuant to a result obtained from implementing the at least one operational change.

US Patent:

20100332997, Dec 30, 2010

Filed:

Jun 26, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/492207

Inventors:

Paul A. Moskowitz - Hawthorne NY, US
Brian M. O'Connell - Research Triangle Park NY, US
Clifford A. Pickover - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Keith R. Walker - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/048
H04L 29/06
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

715757, 726 1, 707791, 707802, 707803, 707812

Abstract:

A system that enables individuals or companies to allow an avatar's transits and communications within a virtual universe. The system enables the selection of regions and/or content. Additionally, companies can use this system to prevent accidental communication of proprietary material. Also provided are a method and a computer readable medium containing a program product including the method to enable individuals or companies to allow an avatar's transits and communications within a virtual universe.

US Patent:

20110055733, Mar 3, 2011

Filed:

Sep 3, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/553432

Inventors:

Michael D. Kendzierski - New York NY, US
Brian O'Connell - Cary NC, US
Clifford A. Pickover - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Keith R. Walker - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715757, 707E17016, 707E17044

Abstract:

The present invention provides a system and method for tagging Virtual Universe items as owned by a particular user and to use such tags to enable users and/or system administrators to locate lost or stolen items in a Virtual Universe. When items identified are located, the user/owners may be notified of the location or missing items; alternatively, the items may be automatically returned to the user/owners' inventories. By enabling differentiation between items that may be lost, stolen, or left intentionally in a Virtual Universe, the present invention addresses difficulties that may arise in managing the various items that populate a Virtual Universe, especially as a Virtual Universe expands or as Multiple Virtual Universes expand and partner with additional Virtual Universes.

US Patent:

20110055919, Mar 3, 2011

Filed:

Sep 3, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/553501

Inventors:

Michael D. Kendzierski - New York NY, US
Brian M. O'Connell - Cary NC, US
Clifford A. Pickover - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Keith R. Walker - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/048
G06F 21/00
G06F 15/16
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

726 21, 715757, 707E17045

Abstract:

The present invention enables items in a Virtual Universe to be tagged as available for pickup by one or more designated users. The present invention permits a designated user to be alerted that there is an item designated for that user/avatar and available for pick-up at a location in the Virtual Universe. A user may designate another user (or user's avatar), for example, a minor for whom the designating user has responsibility, as an “item” to be tracked. For privacy and other reasons, this and other features may be implemented on an opt-in basis.

US Patent:

51844656, Feb 9, 1993

Filed:

Sep 28, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/589660

Inventors:

Douglas A. Howard - Media PA
Keith C. Walker - Broomall PA

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

International Classification:

F16D 3102

US Classification:

60403

Abstract:

An actuator for raising and lowering aircraft landing gear in accordance with the extended and retracted state of the actuator includes a cylindrical casing, a piston assembly slidable along the axis of the casing, a fluid pressure source, a sealed chamber containing gas, a free piston forced by fluid pressure along the casing axis to compress the gas, latching devices for locking the piston assembly to the casing, a locking mechanism for holding the free piston in position on the pressure tube when the gas is compressed and hydraulic passages interconnecting the chamber containing pressurized gas and the space containing pressurized hydraulic fluid. A mechanism is provided for initiating automatic retraction of the actuator due to the effect of a self-contained perpetual source of compressed gas if hydraulic pressure is lost. A compression spring stores a force while the piston assembly moves between retracted and extended positions. The spring force operates to automatically latch the piston assembly to the casing.

US Patent:

20180355327, Dec 13, 2018

Filed:

Jul 30, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/049561

Inventors:

- San Diego CA, US
Patricia L. Avissar - East Brunswick NJ, US
Keith A. Walker - San Diego CA, US
Richard A. Metz - Lawrenceville NJ, US

Assignee:

CIBUS US LLC - SAN DIEGO CA

International Classification:

C12N 9/10
C12N 15/82
A01H 1/06
A01H 5/10

Abstract:

The present invention relates to the production of a non-transgenic plant resistant or tolerant to a herbicide of the phosphonomethylglycine family, e.g., glyphosate. The present invention also relates to the use of a recombinagenic oligonucleobase to make a desired mutation in the chromosomal or episomal sequences of a plant in the gene encoding for 5-enol pyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS). The mutated protein, which substantially maintains the catalytic activity of the wild-type protein, allows for increased resistance or tolerance of the plant to a herbicide of the phosphonomethylglycine family, and allows for the substantially normal growth or development of the plant, its organs, tissues or cells as compared to the wild-type plant irrespective of the presence or absence of the herbicide. The present invention also relates to a non-transgenic plant cell in which the EPSPS gene has been mutated, a non-transgenic plant regenerated therefrom, as well as a plant resulting from a cross using a regenerated non-transgenic plant having a mutated EPSPS gene.