ACQUIRING PEOPLE

• US 20130282551A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Keiser, Timothy M., Burns, Michael R.
• Application Number:
  US13/839,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20130282551A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• 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

Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying to a user, names associated with a plurality of real persons, wherein each person can be acquired by the user at a respective monetary value, displaying to the user a value of an account, receiving from the user a request to acquire a person, responsive to the request, reducing the value of the account by a monetary value of the acquired person, and displaying to the user the name of the acquired person.

Claims

1. A method comprising,

displaying by one or more servers to a user a list of names associated with a plurality of real persons, wherein each person can be acquired by the user at a respective monetary value, and wherein multiple different users can acquire the same person;

displaying by the one or more servers to the user a portfolio of persons acquired by the user;

displaying by the one or more servers to the user a value of an account, wherein the value of the account represents virtual currency;

receiving by the one or more servers from the user a request to acquire another person from the displayed list of names;

responsive to the request;

reducing by the one or more servers the value of the account by a monetary value of the another person; and

adding by the one or more servers the another person to the portfolio; and

displaying by the one or more servers to the user the portfolio of persons acquired by the user, wherein the displayed portfolio includes the another person.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, responsive to an action by the user, removing an acquired person from the portfolio and increasing the value of the account.

3. An apparatus comprising,

one or more processors;

and

a tangible computer readable medium having one or more programs stored thereon that when executed by the one or more processors direct the one or more processors to;

display to a user a list of names associated with a plurality of real persons, wherein each person can be acquired by the user at a respective monetary value, and wherein multiple different users can acquire the same person;

display to the user a portfolio of persons acquired by the user;

display to the user a value of an account, wherein the value of the account represents virtual currency;

receive from the user a request to acquire another person from the displayed list of names;

responsive to the request;

reduce the value of the account by a monetary value of the another person; and

add the another person to the portfolio; and

display to the user the portfolio of persons acquired by the user, wherein the displayed portfolio includes the another person.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, further direct the one or more processors to:

responsive to an action by the user, remove an acquired person from the portfolio and increasing the value of the account.

5. A method comprising,

displaying by one or more servers to a user, names associated with a plurality of real persons, wherein each person can be acquired by the user at a respective monetary value;

displaying by the one or more servers to the user a value of an account;

receiving by the one or more servers from the user a request to acquire a person;

responsive to the request, reducing by the one or more servers the value of the account by a monetary value of the acquired person; and

displaying by the one or more servers to the user the name of the acquired person.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising displaying to the user a list of names of persons acquired by the user.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising displaying to the user a list of names of persons acquired by the user and a monetary value at which the respective person was acquired.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising adding the acquired person to a portfolio of persons acquired by the user.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising, responsive to an action by the user, removing the acquired person from the portfolio and increasing the value of the account.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the value of the account represents virtual currency.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein multiple different users can acquire the same person.

12. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more servers determine, at least in part, the monetary value at which the user acquires the acquired person.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein the monetary value at which the user acquires the acquired person is based at least in part on data about the person.

14. An apparatus comprising,

one or more processors;

and

a tangible computer readable medium having one or more programs stored thereon that when executed by the one or more processors direct the one or more processors to;

display to a user, names associated with a plurality of real persons, wherein each person can be acquired by the user at a respective monetary value;

display to the user a value of an account;

receive from the user a request to acquire a person;

responsive to the request, reduce the value of the account by a monetary value of the acquired person; and

display to the user the name of the acquired person.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, further direct the one or more processors to display to the user a list of names of persons acquired by the user.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, further direct the one or more processors to display to the user a list of names of persons acquired by the user and a monetary value at which the respective person was acquired.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, further direct the one or more processors to add the acquired person to a portfolio of persons acquired by the user.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, further direct the one or more processors to:

responsive to an action by the user, remove the acquired person from the portfolio and increasing the value of the account.

19. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the value of the account represents virtual currency.

20. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein multiple different users can acquire the same person.

21. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the apparatus determines, at least in part, the monetary value at which the user acquires the acquired person.

22. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the monetary value at which the user acquires the acquired person is based at least in part on data about the person.