What is claimed is:
1. A golf tee holder and dispenser comprised of dimension slightly larger than golf tees to be carried and dispensed;
said holder and dispenser being of length to accommodate a plurality of said golf tees in stacked relation vertically lying one on another horizontally with successive tees alternating the orientation of the heads and the points;
dual springs based inside of said holder and dispenser arranged to align pusher plate upward into supporting contact with the lowermost tee to push said stack of tees upwardly in said holder and dispenser;
an aperture at top of said holder and dispenser;
said aperture being larger in dimension than golf tees being contained therein but slightly larger than said pusher plate;
said holder and dispenser is designed with a flat surface which allows ease of imprinted advertising indicia;
said aperture being of size to permit application of the force of a user’s finger against the topmost golf tee point downward and toward said dispensing aperture to effect release of a golf tee from said stack through said dispensing aperture.
2. The apex of said holder and dispenser is curved to accept said application of force from user’s finger against the topmost golf tee point downward and toward said dispensing aperture to effect release of a golf tee from said stack through said dispensing aperture.
3. Said apex of said holder and dispenser has said curved shape to accommodate snub point to inhibit upward movement of golf tees and allows teeter action of golf tees when said user applies said force against the topmost golf tee point downward and toward said dispensing aperture to effect release of a golf tee from said stack through said dispensing aperture.
4. A memory retentive clip on back panel of said holder and dispenser allows maximum expansion for attachment means to user’s side, bag, or golf cart;
said memory retentive clip allows viewing window for user to determine remaining amount of golf tees in said holder and dispenser;
said memory retentive clip has inward curved lip to prevent accidental loss of said carrier and dispenser from twisting or bending actions of said user.
5. Said holder and dispenser as set forth in claim 1 has an inner chamber with dimension slightly larger than golf tee shanks to prevent misalignment of golf tees in upward and downward movement;
circular ends on said inner chamber have slightly larger dimensions to accept golf tee heads in said array of stack.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for improving response time of a teleportation operation in a virtual universe system, said method comprising:
storing image resolution parameters at a client processor corresponding to an avatar of said virtual universe;
in response to a teleport operation request to a teleportation destination for said avatar, changing said image resolution parameters or confirming that said image resolution parameters are acceptable to a user for rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination; and
rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination in the course of said teleportation operation in accordance with resolution parameters determined in said changing or confirming step.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising
rendering an image of said avatar an said teleportation destination at full resolution.
3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein said rendering an image at full resolution is performed a predetermined time subsequent to said step of rendering in accordance with said resolution parameters determined in said confirming or changing step.
4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said resolution parameters are set in a client configuration panel of a client processor.
5. The method as recited in claim 1, further including
reducing resolution of said step of rendering at full resolution within said rendering parameters determined in said confirming or changing step in response to processing load at a processor performing said rendering step.
6. The method as recited in claim 1, further including
providing a degraded copy of a teleportation destination, wherein the teleport operation provides initial teleportation to said degraded copy of a teleportation destination.
7. A computer program product comprising a machine readable medium or communication link, said machine readable medium or communication link containing signals comprising a program which, when run on a processor, causes said processor to perform steps of:
prompting a user to store image resolution parameters at a client processor corresponding to an avatar of said virtual universe;
in response to a teleport operation request to a teleportation destination for said avatar, changing said image resolution parameters or confirming that said image resolution parameters are acceptable to a user for rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination: and
rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination in the course of said teleportation operation in accordance with resolution parameters determined in said changing or confirming step.
8. The computer program product as recited in claim 7, further comprising a step of
rendering an image of said avatar an said teleportation destination at full resolution.
9. The computer program product as recited in claim 8, wherein said step of rendering and image at full resolution is performed a predetermined time subsequent to said step of rendering in accordance with said resolution parameters determined in said confirming or changing step.
10. The computer program product as recited in claim 7, wherein said resolution parameters are set in a client configuration panel of a client processor.
11. The computer program product as recited in claim 7, including further signals to perform a further step of
reducing resolution of said step of rendering at full resolution within said rendering parameters determined in said confirming or changing step in response to processing load at a processor performing said rendering step.
12. The computer program product as recited in claim 7, further including providing a degraded copy of a teleportation destination.
13. The computer program product as recited in claim 12, wherein the teleport operation provides initial teleportation to said degraded copy of a teleportation destination.
14. A virtual universe system including:
a client configuration panel for storing image resolution parameters at a client processor corresponding to an avatar of said virtual universe,
a teleport request control for generating an interface in response to a teleport operation request to a teleportation destination for said avatar, said interface prompting a user to confirm that said image resolution parameters are acceptable for rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination or changing said image resolution parameters, and
means for rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination in the course of said teleportation operation in accordance with resolution parameters determined using said interface.
15. The virtual universe system as recited in claim 14, further comprising
means for rendering an image of said avatar an said teleportation destination at full resolution.
16. The virtual universe system as recited in claim 15, wherein said rendering and image at full resolution is performed a predetermined lime subsequent to rendering in accordance with said resolution parameters determined in said confirming or changing step.
17. The virtual universe system as recited in claim 14, wherein said resolution parameters are set in a client configuration panel of a client processor.
18. The virtual universe system as recited in claim 14, including the further step of
reducing resolution of said step of rendering at full resolution within said rendering parameters determined in said confirming or changing step in response to processing load at a processor performing said rendering step.
19. The virtual universe system as recited in claim 14, further including
means for providing a degraded copy of said teleportation destination.
20. A method of operating a virtual universe system in which teleportation is encouraged, said method comprising:
providing an interface for a user to specify image resolution parameters which are degraded from full resolution of a teleportation destination but acceptable to said user for initial rendering of an image of said teleportation destination and an avatar; and
providing an image of said teleportation destination and said avatar which is rendered in accordance with said degraded image parameters or an image of a degraded copy of said teleportation destination.
21. A method of operating a virtual universe system on a plurality of networked data processors in which teleportation is encouraged, said method including steps of
configuring a client data processor of said plurality of networked data processors to provide
a client configuration panel for storing image resolution parameters at a client processor corresponding to an avatar of said virtual universe, and
a teleport request control for generating an interface in response to a teleport operation request to a teleportation destination for said avatar, said interface prompting a user to confirm that said image resolution parameters are acceptable for rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination or changing said image resolution parameters, and
configuring at least one data processor of said plurality of data processors to provide
means for rendering an image of said avatar and said teleportation destination in the course of said teleportation operation in accordance with resolution parameters determined using said interface.