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U.S. Senator Smith of Indiana ; After seeing Samuel Morse demonstrate the telegraph.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170952 | System and method for providing instant-decision, financial network-based payment cards A system and method for issuance of a financial network-based payment card (generally known as a “payment card” or a “credit card”) almost instantaneously after application, wherein an applicant applies for a credit card by entering data into a data entry sy... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160942 | Billing workflow system for crediting charges to entities creating derivatives exposure An automated billing workflow system receives credit valuation adjustment (CVA) amounts associated with derivatives trades. The automated billing workflow system interacts with an Accounting System in order to make appropriate Profit and Loss (P&L) entries for the C... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8118216 | Method and system for discovering significant subsets in collection of documents A method (and system) of discovering a significant subset in a collection of documents, includes identifying a set of documents from a plurality of documents based on a likelihood that documents in the set of documents carries an instance of information that is char... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8095659 | Service interface A service interface enables an application to be developed independently from a particular service. At execution of the application, the application is wrapped or bound to a service. Advantageously, a configuration file includes instructions that bind particular app... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8027914 | System and method for providing instant-decision, financial network-based payment cards A system and method for issuance of a financial network-based payment card (generally known as a “credit card”) almost instantaneously after application, wherein an applicant applies for a credit card by entering data into a data entry system, advantageously by ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8015096 | Network-based sub-allocation systems and methods for swaps Network-based systems and methods for hosting and operating a network-based platform that allows clients to open and build a portfolio-swap account that is subdivided into a plurality of client sub-accounts or funds. The methods and systems of the invention allow th... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7983468 | Method and system for extracting information from documents by document segregation A method (and system) for extracting information from a document, includes segregating a set of documents from a plurality of documents based on a likelihood that at least one document in the set of documents carries an instance of a preset information. ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974895 | System and method for developing finance rate information A system and method for providing finance rates are provided. According to the system and method, rate request information is acquired. Once the rate request information is acquired, it may be stored in a tracking database for statistical purposes. The acquired requ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970688 | Method for pricing a trade A method for pricing a trade comprising providing a user input for entering trade data, providing a structure for receiving the trade data and then transmitting the structure to a pricing system. The structure, now populated with both the trade data and the pricing ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7890343 | System and method for generating risk management curves Accurate risk management curves are generated for companies that have limited market information available to generate a risk management curve purely from the market information by allowing a pre-existing risk management curve (referred to as a “leader curve”) t... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7844518 | Method and apparatus for managing credit limits A system and method for evaluating financial transactions, which may involve credit requests, is provided. Credit requests are categorized into three tiers: the third-tier is for requests capable of being processed by computers, the second-tier is for requests that ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7814073 | Utility for identifying differences between two Java objects A utility for comparing two objects in an object-oriented operating system that also records the differences so that they may be put into human-readable form. In one exemplary embodiment of this invention, two JAVA objects are compared by calling one of the equality... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7774248 | Method and apparatus for managing risk A system and method for evaluating financial transactions, which may involve credit requests, is provided. Credit requests are categorized into three tiers: the third-tier is for requests capable of being processed by computers, the second-tier is for requests that ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770184 | Integrated trading platform architecture A system and method that provides a JPeX client that opens up a socket on which it listens for connections from the local host. External applications on the desktop are able to connect to the server socket in the client and use XML to execute commands on the client.... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769650 | Network-based sub-allocation systems and methods for swaps Network-based systems and methods for hosting and operating a network-based platform that allows clients to open and build a portfolio-swap account that is subdivided into a plurality of client sub-accounts or funds. The methods and systems of the invention allow th... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765144 | Method and system for transfer of employee stock options A plurality of option value prices are determined for employee stock options and provided to employees during a first part of a decision period. A stock price corresponding to a particular one of the plurality of option value prices is determined and provided to the... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7756896 | System and method for multi-dimensional risk analysis A risk analysis method uses a multi-dimensional risk representation that allows a standard OLAP engine to perform analysis on multi-dimensional data corresponding to a portfolio of financial positions. The analysis includes context-dependent, heterogeneous aggregati... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7702767 | User connectivity process management system A system is disclosed according to the present invention that manages the process of providing a client access to a secured service. In the exemplary embodiment, the secured service is a computer system that allows the client to trade financial instruments. Manageme... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702557 | System and method for manager enhanced return on collateralized debt obligation transactions A portfolio of debt instruments, managed by an asset manager according to the terms of an asset management agreement between the asset manager and a sponsor, is a debt index. Multiple deals, as collateralized obligations, are linked to the debt index. Changes to the... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7685064 | Method and apparatus for evaluating a financial transaction A system and method for evaluating financial transactions, which may involve credit requests, is provided. Credit requests are categorized into three tiers: the third-tier is for requests capable of being processed by computers, the second-tier is for requests that ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7668777 | System and method for providing instant-decision, financial network-based payment cards A system and method for issuance of a financial network-based payment card (generally known as a “credit card”) almost instantaneously after application, wherein an applicant applies for a credit card by entering data into a data entry system, advantageously by ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665127 | System and method for providing access to protected services A method and a system for allowing computer-executable applications to efficiently and securely obtain credentials required to access data from a protected Web service utilizes an ID token. The ID token is associated with an IP address of a user's computer, and is v... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7634435 | Diversified fixed income product and method for creating and marketing same A method of creating, registering and marketing to the public fixed income beneficial interests entitling the owners to fractional ownership of a pool of assets that pay income. The method involves selecting and acquiring from the secondary market the pool of assets... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7617261 | System for archive integrity management and related methods A system for archive integrity management and related methods are disclosed. The invention includes one or more integrity manager applications, each of which monitor the integrity of an aspect of a data archive. Some integrity manager applications monitor the integr... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613656 | Coupon payment system As an alternative to bill payments made with paper checks, customers are provided with “Sign-to-Pay” payment coupons along with their bills. A customer elects to pay the bill either by check or by returning the “Sign-to-Pay” payment coupon. The coupon will n... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7593876 | System and method for processing partially unstructured data A system and method for processing partially unstructured data relating to a financial security. The system and method resolve first- and second-identifying data from the partially unstructured data and determine whether a security is defined by the first-identifyin... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593875 | Financial system for isolated economic environment A system and method for conducting financial transactions in an isolated economic environment. The present invention includes a non-isolated financial account system based in a non-isolated environment which maintains accounts for users. A self-sufficient financial ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7516139 | Processing of tree data structures Data items are represented by trees and stored in a database, the collection of data items defining a forest. Queries and masks are also represented by trees. A method for navigating the forest of data items is disclosed in the context of a graphical user interface.... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7509641 | Job processing framework A job processing framework according to the present invention allows an application to be developed independent of any particular service. Tasks performed by the application are broken up into smaller units of work, or “jobs,” which are each bound to a particula... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7484087 | Systems, methods, and software for preventing redundant processing of transmissions sent to a remote host computer Systems, methods, and software that enable a remote host computer in receipt of a client transmission to reject subsequent redundant or duplicate transmissions from the client. The invention provides systems, methods, and software for attaching unique identifiers to... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7437327 | Method and system for buyer centric dispute resolution in electronic payment system Method of facilitating resolution of a dispute between a buyer and a seller in an electronic payment system. An electronic payment system is also described. An invoice is received from the seller and is electronically routed to the individuals in the buyer's organiz... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421696 | Methods and systems for managing successful completion of a network of processes The present invention involves methods and systems for managing successful completion of a network of processes. The network of processes can be represented as a graph. In this representation, the nodes of the graph represent the processes, and the edges of the grap... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415267 | Methods and systems for managing call reports for the financial services industry The present invention provides methods and systems for managing call reports. A call report message and information identifying a client matter are received via a wireless network, a distribution list is determined by applying a set of visibility rules, and the call... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401156 | Method using control interface to suspend software network environment running on network devices for loading and executing another software network environment According to the inventive method, a network, including its software environment, is suspended in a manner that completely preserves the previous running environment and frees the network to perform other tasks for a period of time, and then to resume the original t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392471 | System and method for comparing extensible markup language (XML) documents A system and a method for comparing Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents includes providing two XML documents as XML objects to a comparison tool and providing a list of XML items to be either included or excluded from the comparison. The comparison tool provi... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379998 | System and method for multi-platform queue queries A system and method that provides a cross-platform queue viewer for use in a distributed processing system comprising a plurality of operational platforms that cooperate to perform various functions and tasks. The queues may be, for example, message queues in a dist... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376838 | Method for controlled and audited access to privileged accounts on computer systems A method that provides access to Privileged Accounts to users with Privileged Account access permission. A message is sent to a Privileged Accounts manager when a user logs into a Privileged Account. The user must enter a reason for access. All keystrokes are logged... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376830 | System and method for routing messages A hub-and-spoke communication arrangement is provided, in which the “hub” includes a server computer system. The “spokes” are other computers that act as message originators and/or destinations. All internal-to-external messages, and vice versa, are routed t... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366974 | System and method for managing template attributes According to the invention, this invention redefines the concept of a template as a set of template attributes, such as font types and color schemes, that are accessed by document-generating applications to provide uniform functionality across an organization. The t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366722 | System and method for specifying application services and distributing them across multiple processors using XML A system and method that uses XML schemas to specify the set of allowed calls, to invoke multiple function calls, either hierarchically or sequentially, and to specify the calls in such a way that they can be distributed across multiple processors. An XML schema mec... | 04/29/2008 |
