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US 2003/0149654 A1Published application
Interactive security brokerage system
OwnerKevin F. Harrington, James F. Wheeler +1inventors
InventorsKevin F. Harrington, James F. Wheeler, Kenneth Torres
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Abstract
The present invention provides an interactive browser based system providing market information regarding municipal bonds which allows users to search for, identify, analyze, compare, auction and/or purchase municipal bonds.
Claims20
An interactive information system comprising:
- a host computer system for storing a database of market information regarding financial instruments available to be purchased and sold;
- means for allowing a remote user to access said information;
- and
- communications means for receiving input from said user, allowing said user to formulate a query to search said database by selecting one or more of a plurality of available search criteria wherein said database search process returns results of said search to said user.
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A method for providing a third-party service for financial instruments comprising:
- establishing a host computer system for storing a database of market information regarding financial instruments available to be purchased and sold in which a remote user is provided access to said host computer system and enabled to perform a query to search said database by selecting one or more of a plurality of available search criteria, and wherein said database search process returns results of said search to said user;
- and
- allowing third-party dealers to interface their computer systems with said host computer system in order to provide said dealers access to said host computer system, and make such computer system available to said dealers' clients, even though said dealers do not operate the system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.