Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080278478 | VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATIONS CENTER - A system, method, program product and service for implementing a virtual network operations center. A system is disclosed that includes: a system for rendering three dimensional (3D) models in an observation space, in which the 3D models mirror actual components in an associated operations center. Also included is a system for rendering a virtual display in the observation space, wherein the virtual display provides a message board for operators viewing the observation space, a cueing system for generating cues within the 3D models; and a communications hub for providing bidirectional communications with the associated operations center. | 11-13-2008 |
20080281912 | MANAGEMENT OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY - An approach that manages enterprise systems and applications using three-dimensional visualization technology is described. In one embodiment, a system for streaming visual representations of an enterprise in near-real time. A multitude of geographically distributed enterprise datacenters are each configured to obtain event data from hardware and software elements in the enterprise. A virtual command center is configured to receive the event data, aggregate the event data into a composite dataset representative of the current operation of the enterprise, compare the composite dataset to at least one three-dimensional model representative of the operation of the geographically distributed enterprise, and provide a visualization of the composite data and any difference that may exist. The visualization is a composite of a three-dimensional visual image of the current operation of the geographically distributed enterprise. | 11-13-2008 |
20080282004 | HOLOGRAPHIC ENTERPRISE NETWORK - A system, method, program product and service for implementing a holographic enterprise network. A system for providing an interface between an operations center and a three dimensional (3D) virtual simulator system capable of rendering holographic images of the operations center is disclosed. Included is a holographic enterprise interface having a translation system for translating standard enterprise data associated with the operations center and 3D holographic data. Also enclosed is a communications manager for managing parallel communications between the holographic enterprise interface and a 3D data processing infrastructure having a holographic bus. | 11-13-2008 |
20080282242 | SIMULATION MANAGEMENT WITHIN A GRID INFRASTRUCTURE - A solution for managing a set of simulations within a grid infrastructure is provided. In particular, a solution is provided in which distinct simulations (e.g., virtual worlds, distributed simulations, and/or the like) and/or simulation instances (e.g., virtual world instances) can be concurrently managed in a single grid infrastructure. | 11-13-2008 |
20080288220 | USE OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DATA CENTER TO SHARE SERVICE OPERATIONS - The present invention creates and/or uses a 3D data center that mirrors physical operations that may not all be co-located in one physical space. The 3D data center can cluster geographically dispersed similar physical assets into one area of the 3D data center, e.g., all of a company's physical world wide mainframes on one virtual floor of the 3D data center. Human experts that reside anywhere geographically could enter the 3D data center, service, manage, monitor their physical machines and applications and/or train other individuals living in different geographical locations, or working for other companies. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288505 | USE OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA CENTER TO SUPPORT SERVICING OUTSOURCED OPERATIONS - A solution for supporting servicing an outsource operation(s) using a three-dimensional (3D) data center is provided. In particular, a solution is provided in which a 3D data center is created from aggregating information technology (IT) resource data received from a plurality of outsourced operation locations that may be geographically or task distributed amongst multiple IT service providers. | 11-20-2008 |
20100023859 | MORPHING A DATA CENTER IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - The present invention re-renders data center visualizations at different levels of abstraction based on roles or activities of an avatar. Morphing of data center objects is accomplished by either combining or decomposing existing data center objects in a manner that will result in a new object that maintains its relationship to the original objects. An example of this would be when creating an application object by combining an existing infrastructure objects (e.g., a server, a network and storage) used to support the application object runtime environment. This allows for the avatar to not only relate the application object to the supporting infrastructure objects, but also provides a view of how the application object is impacted whenever the supporting infrastructure objects change or break. | 01-28-2010 |
20100153499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR AN AUTOMATED AGENT TO SERVICE MULITPLE AVATARS WITHIN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A system and method to interact with business systems through the use of automated agents and provide context for an automated agent to service multiple avatars within a virtual universe. The system comprises a chat engine, a communications subsystem, and a channelizer configured to mediate one or more communications between the chat engine and the communications subsystem. The channelizer is further configured to map at least one channel to an application. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153859 | USE OF INFORMATION CHANNELS TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - The invention generally relates to virtual environments, and more particularly to systems and methods for communicating in virtual environments. A method of providing communication in a virtual universe (VU) includes instantiating and assigning an information channel to a first client of the VU, associating at least one additional client of the VU to the information channel, and conveying data placed on the information channel to the first client and the at least one additional client. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO VISUALIZE ACTIVITIES THROUGH THE USE OF AVATARS - A system and method to visualize activities through the use of avatars. The system includes a display engine configured to display at least one automated activity as an avatar. The system also includes a management system configured to monitor the progress of the at least one automated activity and alter at least one of an appearance and a movement of the avatar in relation to the progress of the at least one automated activity. | 06-17-2010 |
20110078592 | PERFORMING INTERACTIVE COLLABORATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL WORLD - The present invention provides a system and method for building collaboration work environments within the virtual world through computer generated (and possibly controlled) avatars and other three dimensional (3D) objects. It provides a solution to a problem where computer generated avatars and objects visually represent the execution, progress and output of a collaboration project. It provides the system and method for quickly visualizing collaboration activities and outputs to allow people to quickly and easily track progress of said activities. Visually representing collaboration activities allows observers to identify the number and different types of collaboration activities which are currently occurring, the progress of each collaboration activity, the system or component that the collaboration activity is creating or any problems or issues identified during activities supporting the collaboration work effort. | 03-31-2011 |
20120151060 | USE OF INFORMATION CHANNELS TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - The invention generally relates to virtual environments, and more particularly to systems and methods for communicating in virtual environments. A method of providing communication in a virtual universe (VU) includes instantiating and assigning an information channel to a first client of the VU, associating at least one additional client of the VU to the information channel, and conveying data placed on the information channel to the first client and the at least one additional client. | 06-14-2012 |
20120203848 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR AN AUTOMATED AGENT TO SERVICE MULTIPLE AVATARS WITHIN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A system and method to interact with business systems through the use of automated agents and provide context for an automated agent to service multiple avatars within a virtual universe. The system comprises a chat engine, a communications subsystem, and a channelizer configured to mediate one or more communications between the chat engine and the communications subsystem. The channelizer is further configured to map at least one channel to an application. | 08-09-2012 |
20130076740 | Holographic Enterprise Network - A solution for implementing a holographic enterprise network is provided. The solution can provide an interface between an operations center and a three dimensional (3D) virtual simulator system capable of rendering holographic images of the operations center. A holographic enterprise interface can translate standard enterprise data associated with the operations center and 3D holographic data. Parallel communications between the holographic enterprise interface and a 3D data processing infrastructure having a holographic bus also can be managed. | 03-28-2013 |
20140168269 | MORPHING A DATA CENTER IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - The present invention re-renders data center visualizations at different levels of abstraction based on roles or activities of an avatar. Morphing of data center objects is accomplished by either combining or decomposing existing data center objects in a manner that will result in a new object that maintains its relationship to the original objects. An example of this would be when creating an application object by combining an existing infrastructure objects (e.g., a server, a network and storage) used to support the application object runtime environment. This allows for the avatar to not only relate the application object to the supporting infrastructure objects, but also provides a view of how the application object is impacted whenever the supporting infrastructure objects change or break. | 06-19-2014 |
20150019729 | USE OF INFORMATION CHANNELS TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - The invention generally relates to virtual environments, and more particularly to systems and methods for communicating in virtual environments. A method of providing communication in a virtual universe (VU) includes instantiating and assigning an information channel to a first client of the VU, associating at least one additional client of the VU to the information channel, and conveying data placed on the information channel to the first client and the at least one additional client. | 01-15-2015 |