International Business Machines Corporation

Kevin Blake Damm

Viktors Berstis

James Harvey Kaufman

Robert Glenn Deen

Matthew Hammer

John Daniel Sieron Bethencourt

Tobin Jon Lehman

Toby Lehman

The disclosed massive multi-player on-line gaming environment and method eliminate the coordination and synchronization problems between servers by assigning each game user to a specific client proxy server for game duration and utilizing a space information distribution center to indicate client specific changes in game space. Such configuration eliminates the need to use 'grey' areas around partitioning boundaries and servers having to 'own' client objects thereby improving massive multi-player on-line gaming scalability.

Handling of players and objects in massive multi-player on-line games

A method and system for balancing server work load for cellular phone client-proxy applications in an environment where the clients change position within a given geographic area is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of mapping, monitoring, automatically re-mapping the system when required, updating a map address book, and updating a client address book. The system has a mapping system and a communication system connected to a plurality of servers, proxy servers and applications by an internal network. The proxy servers are connected to a plurality of clients by the Internet. If a threshold is exceeded, the monitoring program sends a message to a mapping program. Upon receipt of the message, the mapping program uses a rules engine to calculate a new map graph to remove load from an overloaded server (or servers) and to adjust communication requirements for data by reconfiguring partitions.

Distributing and geographically load balancing location aware communication device client-proxy applications

Method for distributing and geographically load balancing location aware communication device client-proxy applications

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Kevin Blake Damm