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Writings - Technical

A collection of writings on a variety of technical topics.
US Patent # 09883064 - Peer to Peer PDF Print E-mail

I am listed as an author on US Patent # 09883064 for peer to peer file sharing which we developed at Flycode where I was CTO.

There were two key innovations - the first was to use file hashing so that files could be found even when named differently on different peers.

The other key innovation - which wasn't covered very well in the patent - was a technique for swarming based on splitting the file up and accessing parts from different servers - this is essentially wat BitTorrent does now.

The patent was aquired when Flycode went under, and I'm not sure who owns it now.

 

 

 
 
URI and Information Retrieval PDF Print E-mail

This page contains old papers from my work with URI's, including some very early proposals for URLs.

 

 

 

 
 
US Patent # 6219045 - Shared 3D Worlds PDF Print E-mail

I am listed as a co-author on US Patent # 6219045 that covers the first shared 3D virtual environment on the net. "Scalable Virtual World Chat Client-Server System".

Our team broke new ground at a time when shared 3D environments only worked on high-end machines, on big bandwidth pipes, and were not therefore available to average consumers.

Please note that this patent has been quite controversial, I am not claiming that the team invented all the material that the then management of Worlds Inc claimed in the patent.

 

 

 
 
Writings on VRML - 3D on the internet PDF Print E-mail

A collection of writings about VRML,  the first 3D standard on the internet, now superceeded by X3D and proprietrary languages.

VRM2.0: a history and collection of proposals

VRML+: (multi-user - written before VRML2.0)

Patent - Shared 3D Worlds

Living Worlds: (multi-user - written after VRML2.0) tutorial and avatars