Systems and methods for investment decision support
First Claim
1. A computer system, for permitting participation in a financial transaction, the system comprising:
- means for presenting an opportunity to participate in the transaction, the opportunity comprising a plurality of values;
means for providing a financial statement that describes a financial position, the financial statement comprising a plurality of portions, the financial position comprising total periodic income, total periodic expenses, and net periodic cash flow;
means for receiving inputs from the user that specify each association of a plurality of associations, wherein each association associates a respective value of the opportunity with a respective portion of the financial statement;
means for updating the presentation of the financial statement in accordance with the plurality of associations; and
means for permitting participation in the transaction in accordance with accepting the plurality of associations.
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Abstract
A decision support computer system, according to various aspects of the present invention, is used by a plurality of users to learn principles of personal finance by competing. The system includes an engine for central processing; a network for communication between each user and the engine for central processing; an engine for identifying to a particular competition a subset of the plurality of users; an engine for modeling financial consequences of a respective series of decisions made by each user of the subset; a graphical user interface engine operative by each user for indicating a decision after associating values of an opportunity to portions of a financial statement; and an engine for recognizing a particular user of the subset as succeeding in the particular competition in response to determining that the particular user'"'"'s decisions result in the accumulation of recurring passive income exceeding recurring expenses. Engine functions may be combined to reduce the number of independent engine implementations.
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18 Claims
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1. A computer system, for permitting participation in a financial transaction, the system comprising:
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means for presenting an opportunity to participate in the transaction, the opportunity comprising a plurality of values;
means for providing a financial statement that describes a financial position, the financial statement comprising a plurality of portions, the financial position comprising total periodic income, total periodic expenses, and net periodic cash flow;
means for receiving inputs from the user that specify each association of a plurality of associations, wherein each association associates a respective value of the opportunity with a respective portion of the financial statement;
means for updating the presentation of the financial statement in accordance with the plurality of associations; and
means for permitting participation in the transaction in accordance with accepting the plurality of associations.
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2. A method, performed by a computer, for permitting participation in a financial transaction, the method comprising:
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presenting an opportunity to participate in the transaction, the opportunity comprising a plurality of values;
providing a financial statement that describes a financial position, the financial statement comprising a plurality of portions, the financial position comprising total periodic income, total periodic expenses, and net periodic cash flow;
receiving inputs from the user that specify each association of a plurality of associations, wherein each association associates a respective value of the opportunity with a respective portion of the financial statement;
updating the presentation of the financial statement in accordance with the plurality of associations; and
permitting participation in the transaction in accordance with accepting the plurality of associations. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer system comprising:
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an output device for presenting information to a user, a presentation of the information comprising values;
an input device operative by the user to provide a signal; and
a processor coupled to the output device and to the input device for communicating with the user, wherein;
(1) the processor, in accordance with the signal, associates each value of the plurality of values with a type of value being of the set comprising periodic recurring passive income and periodic recurring expenses; and
(2) the processor provides guidance to the user in accordance with the associations, to encourage the user to classify the values according to a predefined classification or to accumulate periodic recurring passive income to exceed periodic recurring expenses. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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18. A decision support computer system for use by a plurality of users to learn principles of personal finance by competing, the system comprising:
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means for central processing coupled to a provided network for communication between each user and the means for central processing;
means for identifying to a particular competition a subset of the plurality of users;
means for modeling financial consequences of a respective series of decisions made by each user of the subset; and
graphical user interface means operative by each user for indicating a decision after associating values of an opportunity to portions of a financial statement; and
means for recognizing a particular user of the subset as succeeding in the particular competition in response to determining that the particular user'"'"'s decisions result in the accumulation of recurring passive income exceeding recurring expenses.
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