Financial data reporting system with alert notification feature and free-form searching capability

• US 7,310,615 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2002
• Issued: 12/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GoldenSource Corp.
• Original Assignee: GoldenSource Corp.
• Inventors: Lewis, Charles J.
• Primary Examiner(s): ELISCA, PIERRE E
• Application Number:
  US10/053,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20040162772A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,160 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/36, 705/1
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• 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 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof

Abstract

An integrated financial data reporting system provides for real time data entry, assessment, and report generation. The system includes message formatting, database management, and select applications for preparing sophisticated financial presentations in essentially real time. An alert notification server alerts users when a financial threshold specifying a credit limit and/or a trading limit has been crossed. A data distribution server electronically distributes data to users on a recurring and/or periodic basis, and a search engine server provides free-form searches against information stored in a consolidated database. Through the inventive system, financial institutions rationalize risk, performance, and compliance positions in a cost-effective manner.

Claims

1. A computer-executable method of processing financial instrument information substantially in real time, the method including the steps of:

(a) receiving incoming stochastic data records from any of a plurality of disparate systems relating to a financial instrument;

(b) converting the incoming stochastic data records into a common data format substantially in real time;

(c) consolidating the converted stochastic data records by storing the data records on a consolidated database in conformance with a predefined standard;

(d) receiving data inquiries requesting information from the consolidated database; and

(e) in response to the received data inquiry, providing real time access to the requested information from the consolidated database;

wherein, on an ongoing basis, incoming stochastic data records are received regarding at least one of financial transaction position changes, financial transaction lots and cash balances, and cost bases for each of a plurality of transaction positions and lots; and

wherein step (c) is performed by updating a consolidated database that is structured according to a relational database model that relates information pertaining to settled and forecast financial transactions, financial instruments, customers, counterparties, employees, organizational units, and financial institutions.

2. The method of claim 1 further including the step of providing a library of business objects for facilitating access to the consolidated database according to any of a plurality of subjects including accounts, customers, positions, stocks, bonds, derivatives, financial transactions, and counterparties to a specified financial transaction, irrespective of the manner in which information is physically arranged on the consolidated database.