US 2013/0212045 A1 · METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OF INVESTORS HAVING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS

Abstract

A system and method for providing analytical tools for a community of investors having investment portfolios. A first tool provides an indication of a user's selection effectiveness regarding the user's choice of investments relative to those sectors in which the investment resides, and relative to a broader market. A second tool allows the user to evaluate the effectiveness of community stimuli on the user's portfolio. A third tool provides the user the capability to view relationships among a plurality of preferred analysts. With a fourth tool, a user may view a plurality of other analysts the user referred to the community.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for a virtual community, said computer-implemented method comprising:

accepting a set of investment preferences from a plurality of community members;
receiving a first request from a first community member to view said set of investment preferences of a second community member, recording said first request, and displaying said set of investment preferences of said second community member to said first community member;
and
receiving a second request from a third community member to display related other users and displaying a set of community members represented as nodes and a set of relationships between community members as connections between said nodes.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/846,521Filed 18 Mar 2013

Priority

15 Dec 2000

Published

15 Aug 2013

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06Q 20/10
Payment architectures: specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
G06Q 10/42
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of affinities or common interests between users
G06Q 10/46
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of level of influence of users within social…
G06Q 10/48
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: using social graphs

Family

Application09/739,565Continuation · filed 15 Dec 2000

Application12/173,365Continuation · filed 15 Jul 2008

Application13/846,521Continuation

US 2008/0275825 A1Published application

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Method for implementing a virtual community of investors having investment portfolios

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Method for implementing a virtual community of investors having investment portfolios

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Abstract

Claims1