Patent ID: 7519546

Claim:
A system having one or more computing devices, comprising: an information tracking component configured to store, for each of a plurality of items, wherein each item is an asset available for purchase, information describing the item; a supply component configured to receive data describing the plurality of items and store the data as the information in the information tracking component; a publishing component configured to select, based on pre-established selection criteria, for each of a plurality of subscribers, a set of information from the information tracking component, and to communicate the selected set of information to local storage maintained by the subscriber, wherein the publishing component is configured to perform the communication by transferring the information to subscribers in advance of receiving requests from the subscribers to modify the information; and a subscriber request component configured to receive requests from the plurality of subscribers and modify the information stored in the information tracking component in accordance with the requests, wherein the subscriber request component is configured to receive a request to reserve a particular asset, wherein the publishing component is further configured to identify one or more of the plurality of subscribers affected by the modification to the information stored in the information tracking component, and to communicate, to the one or more of the plurality of subscribers affected by the modification, the information as modified, and to communicate to selected ones of the plurality of subscribers a notification that the asset is reserved and not available for sale.