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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7885870 | System for providing banking services by use of mobile communication A system for providing banking services by use of a mobile communication system, in which a variety of financial transactions including inquiry of at least one financial account of at least one financial institution, transfer and remittance, and loan and its interes... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7769652 | System and method for changing order priority levels in an electronic trading environment A system and method for fee-based order priority level modification in an electronic trading environment are described. When an order reaches an exchange, a priority level of the order may be changed to a higher priority level, and the priority level of the order in... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7640207 | System and method for dynamically determining quantity for risk management A system and method for dynamically determining quantity for risk management are described. According to one example embodiment, as a trader positions an order icon at a desired price or price-derivative value on a graphical interface, an order quantity for the orde... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634449 | Method for managing risk in markets related to commodities delivered over a network A system, method, software, and portfolios for managing risk in markets relating to a commodity delivered over a network are described, in which a market participant constructs portfolios of preferably liquid price risk instruments in proportions that eliminate the ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7539640 | Aggregated trading system A trading system is described herein for hosting a collection of one or more electronic exchanges. The collection of electronic exchanges may be made up of separately designated exchanges under one or more authorizing and regulating bodies. The trading system receiv... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7533052 | Trading system In an automated exchange system functions for automatic hedging and automatic price improvements are provided. ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526452 | Apparatus, methods and computer programs for metering and accounting for services accessed over a network Apparatus, methods and computer programs provided for metering and accounting in a commercial e-services infrastructure address the requirement for handling composite services in which higher-level services are built using simpler underlying services, each of which ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7493287 | Distributed content architecture A distributed content architecture is provided the de-coupled site management and presentation from asset inventory management and publishing. An active content cell is provided which manages the inventory and publishing aspects of the information. A content managem... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493277 | Business opportunity analytics with dependence A system and method are provided to analyze the value of an opportunity, including the dependence and interrelationship between opportunities. A computer-implemented system having a number of software modules is provided that facilitates the calculation of portfolio... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487121 | Flexible event correlation aggregation tool A mediation system for a converged network system for an xSP (i.e., any service provider of Information Technology (IT)/business services) is readily interactively configured by a user (e.g., an xSP) to correlate and aggregate usage data from a number of collection ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483860 | Method and system for managing software licenses A method and system for managing licenses over a network is disclosed. The method and system include establishing a user account on a server coupled to the network from a user computer, and allowing the user to upload licenses used by the computer to the server. The... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7478063 | Stock trading application program A stock trading application program which executes within an Internet browser is provided for capturing user specified subjective information concerning user rationale and logic for purchasing or selling financial instruments such as securities, options, etc. The su... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7478065 | Payment transaction method and payment transaction system Payment transaction method and payment transaction system in which payment transactions between customers with portable mobile devices (1), for example mobile radio telephones, and a plurality of payment terminals (2) are carried out at a service point... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7475045 | Transaction system and transaction terminal equipment In order to cause effective function when a system adopting a conventional settlement card is shifted to a system adopting a settlement card of IC card type and to enable a significant contribution to proliferation of the settlement card of IC card type, when a pers... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472090 | Method and system for providing a higher credit limit to a customer According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing a higher credit limit to a credit customer is provided. The method includes opening a credit account for a customer. The method also includes determining a first credit limit for the credit account... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469227 | Retail lending risk related scenario generation Generation of risk-related retail lending portfolio scenarios is disclosed. A selected functional form is used to decompose vintage performance data into a maturation component, an exogenous component and vintage calibration parameters for the portfolio. Known exoge... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469225 | Refinancing model A method for modeling a current expected prepayment spread for a mortgage-backed security (MBS) as a function of a current refinance activity is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the method comprises the steps of computing a historical MBS prepayment spre... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469223 | Index selection method A method for forming an index in which a universe of N instruments is initially defined. In a second step, a covariance matrix is assigned to the universe. In a third step, one of the instruments from the universe is removed. In a fourth step, a residual variance of... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7464057 | Method and system for multi-currency escrow service for web-based transactions A method and system for escrow service for web-based transactions is web-accessible and accepts registrations from exchanges and/or portal partners. The completion of registration and transactions is allowed to entitled users who access the system via the web. The s... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457779 | User terminal program designated not to receive contents that cannot achieve users' object A user terminal program enables a user terminal apparatus to accept instruction information specifying a content that a user wants to reproduce on a predetermined reproducing apparatus other than the user terminal apparatus, and enables acquiring system identifying ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7451108 | Method and system for measuring trade management performance Management of financial transactions involves defining the process as a series information transfers needed by parties to settle the transaction. A system measure the performance of participants in the management process, tracks information transferred between the p... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451112 | Dynamic information dissemination within a trading system A method for use by an operator of a system for trading of financial instruments allows the operator to differentiate between the information a user of the system is given access to regarding trades which are made outside of the system and then reported to the syste... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451111 | Queuing exemption method, queuing place-taking method and auction system In order to exchange waiting time, troublesomeness, and labor incurred in the receiving of goods and services with a monetary value, and acquire a priority with respect to the provision of goods and services, an auction system receives bids for queuing exemption rig... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437226 | Method of constructing artificial mark for autonomous driving, apparatus and method of determining position of intelligent system using artificial mark and intelligent system employing the same A method for constructing an artificial mark for autonomous driving of an intelligent system, an apparatus and method for determining the location of an intelligent system using the artificial mark, and an intelligent system employing the same. The apparatus and met... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437329 | Point-of-sale activation of media device account The present invention discloses systems and methods for activating and redeeming prepaid media download cards and devices. Methods for activating prepaid media download cards may comprise storing at a central processor a media download card identifier identifying a ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433837 | Apparatus and methods for handling trading data A manually-assisted computer and communications apparatus is provided for periodically fixing a price of a currency or commodity. Successive rate samples of said currency/stock/commodity are received from a plurality of sources (80) over a period of time, rec... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430540 | System and method for safe financial transactions in E.Commerce A system, method and program for executing securely e-financial transactions over the Internet between merchants, clients and financial institutions using an electronic programmable device such as an electric vault, microcomputer or a smart card. The systems offers ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430534 | System, method and computer program product for risk-minimization and mutual insurance relations in meteorology dependent activities A system, method and computer program product for minimizing risks associated with meteorology dependent activity. Such activity may include operation of renewable power sources and the delivery of power output from those renewable sources for sale on a market. The ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7429973 | Content display system and method A content display system is disclosed for offering, excellent multimedia content browsing/viewing environments to handheld device users, from a server of a communication network, by the use of a handheld device and a cooperating computer device cooperated to the han... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426476 | System and method for automated prescription management An automated Triage Administrator system that links data for prescription requests, prescription refill requests, medical history requests and a patient's prescription history in a data base. The system allows pharmacies and physicians access to the desired medical ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426475 | Secure electronic healthcare information management process and system The invention pertains to a healthcare information management system which enables a patient to take possession and control of his healthcare information provided by a plurality of generally unrelated healthcare practitioners and pharmacies, comprising a central dat... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421056 | Fuel assembly for a boiling water reactor A spacer for a fuel element of a boiling water reactor contains cells that are formed by inner partitions, which are disposed in a crisscross manner, and by outer partitions, which surround the inner partitions in a frame-like manner. A guiding device is placed on t... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421405 | Methods and apparatus for developing investments A method for determining weightings of an investment portfolio selected from a plurality of domestic and international financial investments is provided. The method divides domestic and international financial investments into a plurality of industry groups, selecti... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415436 | System and method for pricing and allocation of commodities or securities The present invention provides an economical, high performance, adaptable system and method (designated “the OpenBook system”) for conducting an auction of debt securities to institutional and individual investors on the Web. In the OpenBook system auction: (1) ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412404 | Generating, updating, and managing multi-taxonomy environments An electronic commerce system includes one or more databases operable to store product data for one or more products. The system also includes a master global content directory that includes a plurality of product classes organized in a hierarchy, the product class ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409370 | Secured and selective runtime auditing services using a trusted computing device In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a control logic to selectively audit transactions between the apparatus and a separate entity based on a type for the transactions. The apparatus also includes an encryption logic to encrypt an audit log that includes at least... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403921 | System and method for calculating and displaying volume to identify buying and selling in an electronic trading environment A system and method are provided for calculating and displaying volume to identify aggressive buying or selling activity. In a preferred embodiment, market information such as the inside market, last traded price, and last traded quantity is received from the electr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403919 | System and method for determining the liquidity of a credit The present invention relates to a credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, a system and method for operating a credit index, and a system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403917 | Reconciling combinations of transactions A system, method, and computer program product provide automated reconciliation of transactions. A transaction in a first list is reconciled with a combination of two or more transactions in a second list. A function, which may be implemented as a recursive function... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401042 | Method for profiling options A method for measuring a price level of an option contract or a series of options contracts based upon a volatility of an underlying security. The method includes the process of calculating a rate of return index for an option series. The rate of return index includ... | 07/15/2008 |
