Method and system for building and maintenance watch lists
AssigneeCharles Schwab & Co., Inc.
InventorsDouglas Corning, Natalie Lera, Jennifer Kwan, Corinne Wayshak, Christopher Burmester
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for monitoring a items such as stocks and other securities, suitable for use in portable devices, such as personal organizes, wherein instead of separate watch lists, a pool of items being watched is maintained, and the total number of items which can be contained in the pool is intentionally limited to a predefined number, and further wherein each of the items in the pool includes an associated tag which defines a watch list to which it belongs, and the pool of the items being watched can be viewed simultaneously as one coherent collection, or specific watch lists can be displayed.
Claims16
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A method for organizing information for a plurality of data items which are being tracked in a computing device of the type which is capable of exchanging information with a communications center, comprising:
- tracking a plurality of data items at the communications center that comprises a subset of available data items;
- maintaining a data list at the communications center, which includes information for all of the plurality of data items being tracked;
- and
- sending the data list to the computing device.
A system for organizing information for a plurality of data items being tracked comprising:
- a communications center of the type which is capable of exchanging information with a computing device, wherein the communications center:
- tracks a plurality of data items that comprises a subset of available data items;
- maintains a data list at the communications center, which includes information for all of the plurality of data items being tracked;
- and
- sends the data list to the computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.