Wendy W Yang

US Patent:

7949642, May 24, 2011

Filed:

Oct 11, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/248480

Inventors:

Wendy W Yang - San Mateo CA, US
Stan J Simon - San Mateo CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707706

Abstract:

A system and method for managing and presenting entity information is described. In an illustrative implementation, information such as product availability and operating hours is stored in a server (). A query may be sent from a client () having a time (), date (), or both inquiring, for example, which entities are open at a certain or range of times, in the past, present or future. The server () compares the queried time with stored information, such as hours entries (). The results are displayed on a map () with open entities represented by a first symbol (R) and closed entities by a second symbol (G) such that all the entities on the map () are viewable without further searches. Clicking on a symbol () leads to a display () containing information about the associated entity, thereby enabling an entity's information to be found using only its location.