LIMITED NETWORK FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION RELEVANT TO ANALYSIS OF A SELECTED INDUSTRY ELEMENT

• US 20080162376A1
• Filed: 01/02/2008
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomas Roulston
• Original Assignee: Thomas Roulston
• Inventors: Roulston, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/968,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162376A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/36R
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

Abstract

A method and network system is provided for limited communication of information relevant to analysis of a potential investment. A community manager facilitates open source information gatherings for particular subjects relevant to the investment decision and includes organizing a limited community forum of investment analysts interested in the particular subject and capable of professionally evaluating the investment decision. An expert community chair directs communication between any member of the forum and a third party source of information relevant to the particular subject or the investment decision. Regularly scheduled conferences include the community manager, community chair and community forum comprising discussions relevant to a particular subject and the investment decision. Alternatively, the conference includes individual and sequential limited participation by the expert third party sources.

Claims

1. A limited communication network for facilitating communication of information relevant to analysis of a potential investment comprising:

a community manager for facilitating open source information gathering for a particular subject relevant to the investment decision and including organizing a limited community forum of investment analysts interested in the particular subject and capable of professionally evaluating the investment decision;

a community chair comprising an expert in the particular subject based upon career experience therein and wherein the community chair facilitator directs communication between any member of the forum and a third party source of information relevant to the particular subject or the investment decision; and

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wherein regularly scheduled conferences including the community manager, community chair and community forum comprise discussions relevant to the particular subject and the investment decision.

2. The network of claim 1 wherein communication system comprises a vertical network.

3. The network of claim 1 wherein limited forum comprises an industry grouping.

4. The network of claim 1 wherein community manager hosts regular conference calls.

5. The network of claim 1 wherein limited community forum is limited by the community manager to a preselected number and identity of investment analysts.

6. The network of claim 1 wherein the community chair provides a limit on the discussions relevant to the particular subject.

7. A virtual conference method for rotating a selected plurality of entity representatives through conference participation, comprising:

establishing a virtual conference for interactive communication between a selected set of buyside entities and industry experts;

limiting industry expert participation in the conference by time and duration wherein a first individual expert enters the conference at a preselected time known to the buyside entities and exits the conference after a preselected duration of participation, and a second individual expert enters the conference after the exit of the first expert, wherein a plurality of experts are individually and sequentially engaged by the plurality of buyside entities.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the business entity representatives and the buyside entities are remotely located for virtual conference participation.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the business entity representatives are all associated by a common subject matter.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the buyside entities are associated by a common interest in the common subject matter.