Patents by Inventor James Zachary Bollas

James Zachary Bollas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Event notification
    Patent number: 7600046
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and computer system for ensuring consistency between data displayed by multiple independent client programs that can simultaneously display server-provided data. The data are accessible only from a server that is not persistently connected to the client computer systems) displaying the data, so the client programs cannot retrieve the data independently without sending a request to the server. Client programs do not poll the server by sending a request to learn that data capable of being displayed by the multiple client programs have been updated. Instead, client programs are notified by the server program receiving the request to change the data at the time the request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick W. Whittle, Vincent L. Sollicito, Edward F. Seitz, Brockton Scott Davis, Stephen Kent Owens, Richard George Vaughan, James Zachary Bollas
  • System and method for ensuring consistent web display by multiple independent client programs with a server that is not persistently connected to client computer systems
    Patent number: 7469302
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and computer system for ensuring consistency between data displayed by multiple independent client programs that can simultaneously display server-provided data. The data are accessible only from a server that is not persistently connected to the client computer system(s) displaying the data, so the client programs cannot retrieve the data independently without sending a request to the server. Client programs do not poll the server by sending a request to learn that data capable of being displayed by the multiple client programs have been updated. Instead, client programs are notified by the server program receiving the request to change the data at the time the request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick Wang Whittle, Vincent Louis Sollicito, Edward F. Seitz, Brockton Scott Davis, Stephen Kent Owens, Richard George Vaughan, James Zachary Bollas
  • Event Notification
    Publication number: 20080270591
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and computer system for ensuring consistency between data displayed by multiple independent client programs that can simultaneously display server-provided data. The data are accessible only from a server that is not persistently connected to the client computer systems) displaying the data, so the client programs cannot retrieve the data independently without sending a request to the server. Client programs do not poll the server by sending a request to learn that data capable of being displayed by the multiple client programs have been updated. Instead, client programs are notified by the server program receiving the request to change the data at the time the request is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Derrick Wang Whittle, Vincent Louis Sollicito, Edward F. Seitz, Brockton Scott Davis, Stephen Kent Owens, Richard George Vaughan, James Zachary Bollas