Securities brokerage-cash management system with short term investment proceeds allotted among multiple accounts

• US 4,774,663 A
• Filed: 11/21/1983
• Issued: 09/27/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated (Bank of America Corp.)
• Inventors: Musmanno, Thomas E., Marrone, Joseph A., Carey, Laura
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jerry
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/553,688
• Time in Patent Office: 1,772 Days
• Field of Search: 364/408, 364/200 MS File, 364/900 MS File
• US Class Current: 705/36.00R
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/403 Solvency checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

Abstract

Data processing for an improved securities brokerage-cash management system supervises, implements and coordinates a margin securities brokerage account; participation in one or more short term investments; and subscriber unilaterally initiated use of charge, debit or checking instruments. Subscriber expenditures, effected as by charge card use, check and/or cash advance are applied on a hierarchal basis, seriatim, against the subscriber'"'"'s free credit balance, short term investment and the lendable equity in his securities account. On a periodic basis, e.g., daily, received card charges, check, securities and deposit transactions for the ensemble of account participants are verified and employed to compute an updated credit limit for each subscriber.

In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the short term investments available to subscribers include an ordered ensemble of insured savings accounts.

Claims

1. In combination in a system for processing and supervising a plurality of composite subscriber accounts each comprising a margin brokerage account, subscriber implemented funds withdrawal means, and participation in at least one short term investment including at least one insured savings account, manual transaction entry means, brokerage account data file magnetic storage means for storing current information characterizing each subscriber margin brokerage account, means for receiving subscriber funds withdrawal transaction information, means for generating an updated credit limit for each account operating upon said brokerage account data file storage means and said received subscriber implemented withdrawal transactional information, means for selectively generating short term investment transactions as required to generate and invest proceeds from said subscriber'"'"'s accounts, and means for updating the short term investment position for said subscriber accounts, said updating means including at least one bank money market deposit account processing means, each of said money market deposit account processing means including test means for rejecting deposits in excess of a predetermined insurance limit-related upper bound.

2. The system as in claim 1, wherein said short term investment available to system subscribers further comprises money market trust means, and means for allotting funds between said money market trust means and said insured savings account.

3. A combination as in claim 1 or 2, wherein said subscriber implemented funds withdrawal means includes checking account means.

4. A combination as in claim 3, wherein said subscriber implemented funds withdrawal means further comprise credit card means.

5. A system as in claim 3 further comprising means for generating a subscriber loan record when the subscriber'"'"'s aggregated expenditures exceed the value of the short term investments and securities loan value as reported by said brokerage account data file means.

6. A system as in claim 1 or 5, wherein said system includes plural of said bank money market deposit account processing means, said plural money market deposit account processing means being in an ordered hierarchy, each of said money market deposit account processing means including means for providing deposits which attain or exceed a minimum predetermined threshold bound for each of a corresponding ordered hierarchy of bank institutions for which any subscriber maintains a money market deposit account.

7. A combination as in claim 1, 5 or 6, wherein each of said bank account processing means include report generating means, and means responsive to a deposit in excess of an account upper bound for apportioning said deposit among plural money market deposit accounts to not exceed such limit.

8. A combination as in claim 1 or 2 futhter comprising means for generating a stored record of each subscriber deposit and subscriber implemented funds withdrawal transaction, and means for providing an output alert record responsive to either of said deposits, or the subscriber implemented withdrawals exceeding predetermined pattern norms.

9. A system as in claim 1 or 2, wherein said updated credit limit generating means comprises means for accumulating the amount of charge card usage and checks for each subscriber, means responsive to said brokerage account data file means for generating a subscriber updated credit limit measured by the difference between the limiting residual subscriber brokerage account securities loan value augmented by the value of the subscriber'"'"'s short term investment, decremented by the value of the subscriber'"'"'s aggregate expenditures and funds required for brokerage account purposes, means for reporting said updated credit limit to said brokerage account data file means.

10. In combination in a system for processing and supervising a plurality of composite subscriber accounts each comprising a margin brokerage account, subscriber implemented funds withdrawal means, and participation in at least one short term investment including at least one insured savings account, manual transaction entry means, brokerage account data file magnetic storage means for storing current information characterizing each subscriber margin brokerage account, means for receiving subscriber funds withdrawal transaction information, means for generating an updated credit limit for each account operating upon said brokerage account data file storage means and said received subscriber implemented withdrawal transactional information, means for selectively generating short term investment transactions as required to generate and invest proceeds from said subscriber'"'"'s accounts, and means for updating the short term investment position for said subscriber accounts, said updating means including at least one bank money market deposit account processing means, each of said money market deposit account processing means including test means for rejecting deposits in excess of a predetermined insurance limit-related upper bound wherein money market deposit account processing means includes means for storing a maximum program savings account deposit limit for each participating institution, and means for precluding deposits to customers not already having a money market deposit account at a specific institution responsive to that institution'"'"'s stored deposit limit being exceeded.

11. In combination in a system for processing and supervising a plurality of composite subscriber accounts each comprising a margin brokerage account, subscriber implemented funds withdrawal means, and participation in at least one short term investment including at least one insured savings account, manual transaction entry means, brokerage account data file magnetic storage means for storing current information characterizing each subscriber margin brokerage account, means for receiving subscriber funds withdrawal transaction information, means for generating an updated credit limit for each account operating upon said brokerage account data file storage means and said received subscriber implemented withdrawal transactional information, means for selectively generating short term investment transactions as required to generate and invest proceeds from said subscriber'"'"'s accounts, and means for updating the short term investment position for said subscriber accounts, said updating means including at least one bank money market deposit account processing means, each of said money market deposit account processing means including test means for rejecting deposits in excess of a predetermined insurance limit-related upper bound wherein said system includes plural of said bank money market deposit account processing means, said plural money market deposit account processing means being in an ordered hierarchy, each of said money market deposit account processing means including means for providing deposits which attain or exceed a minimum predetermined threshold bound for each of a corresponding ordered hierarchy of bank institutions for which any subscriber maintains a money market deposit account.