Bryce S Catlin

20060095434, May 4, 2006

May 17, 2005

11/130965

Charles McCullough - Oakland CA, US
Bryce Catlin - Hayward CA, US
John Davis - Corte Madera CA, US

G06F 17/30

707010000

A method and system for distributing access to inventory items available at vendor locations includes user stations transmitting user inquiries on a communications network. Network-connected location servers access a set of inventory availability information associated with inventory items available at their respective location, for example, tables at a restaurant. The host server receives user inquiries regarding availability of items associated with at least some of the location servers and queries a cache server that locally stores a binary subset of the information from the location servers to determine if the requested item is available without having to separately query the database at each location. Particularly, a web server receives and stores information regarding only whether a requested item is available or not available from a particular location rather than how many items are available at the location. A user, therefore, can access availability of inventory items with less communications traffic.

7069571, Jun 27, 2006

Jun 15, 1999

09/334131

Eric E. Del Sesto - Alameda CA, US
James R. Collette - Alameda CA, US
Jeffrey W. Yu - Alameda CA, US
Charlie McCullough - Saratoga CA, US
Pat Ransil - Alameda CA, US
Bryce S. Catlin - Alameda CA, US
Houman Azarm - Alameda CA, US

Wink Communications, Inc. - Alameda CA

H04N 9/00

725 14, 725 25, 725 32, 725 40, 725 51, 725 61, 725112, 725131, 725139

A method and apparatus facilitate the retirement of interactive applications in a manner associated with an external event and a program state of the interactive application. A broadcaster transmits an interactive application that includes a plurality of retirement instructions associated with external events and internal program states of the interactive application. A broadcast receiver receives an interactive application, stores the included retirement instructions, and executes the interactive application concurrently with the display of an associated television program. The broadcast receiver monitors the broadcast signal for events indicating that the executing interactive application is no longer appropriate for the current television program. Upon detection of such an event, the broadcast receiver retrieves the stored instructions, and retires the interactive application in a manner appropriate for both the detected external event and the internal program state of the interactive application, according to the stored instructions.

20150052030, Feb 19, 2015

Aug 28, 2014

14/471159

- San Francisco CA, US
Bryce Catlin - Hayward CA, US
John Davis - Corte Madera CA, US

G06Q 10/08
G06F 17/30

705 28

A method and system for distributing access to inventory items available at vendor locations includes user stations transmitting user inquiries on a communications network. Network-connected location servers access a set of inventory availability information associated with inventory items available at their respective location, for example, tables at a restaurant. The host server receives user inquiries regarding availability of items associated with at least some of the location servers and queries a cache server that locally stores a binary subset of the information from the location servers to determine if the requested item is available without having to separately query the database at each location. Particularly, a web server receives and stores information regarding only whether a requested item is available or not available from a particular location rather than how many items are available at the location. A user, therefore, can access availability of inventory items with less communications traffic.