Determining related stocks based on postings of messages

• US 7,830,383 B1
• Filed: 11/20/2009
• Issued: 11/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cary D. Perttunen
• Original Assignee: Cary D. Perttunen
• Inventors: Perttunen, Cary D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kimbinh T
• Application Number:
  US12/592,176
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 345/440, 345/441, 345/442, 345/619, 345/473, 345/419, 715/836, 715/837, 715/839, 715/866, 715/834, 705 35- 37, 709/217, 709/219
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium provide a financial Web site to display, based on a user-selected stock, a plurality of user-selectable elements associated with a respective plurality of stocks that are determined to be related to the user-selected stock. Each stock of the plurality of stocks is determined to be related to the user-selected stock based on a respective correlation between postings of messages for the stock and the user-selected stock. Each respective correlation is between a respective time series of an aggregate level of messaging for its respective stock and a time series of an aggregate level of messaging for the user-selected stock. Each of the plurality of user-selectable elements is user-selectable to retrieve information from a message board associated with its respective one of the plurality of stocks.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one computer comprising a computer memory encoded with executable instructions and a processor responsive to the computer memory to provide a financial Web site, the financial Web site to display, based on a user-selected stock, a plurality of user-selectable elements associated with a respective plurality of stocks that are determined to be related to the user-selected stock, each stock of the plurality of stocks being determined by the at least one computer to be related to the user-selected stock based on a respective correlation between postings of messages for the stock and the user-selected stock, each respective correlation being between a respective time series of an aggregate level of messaging for its respective stock and a time series of an aggregate level of messaging for the user-selected stock, wherein each of the plurality of user-selectable elements is user-selectable to retrieve information from a message board associated with its respective one of the plurality of stocks.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of user-selectable elements comprises a respective link to a respective uniform resource locator (URL).

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one computer comprises a server computer and a client computer, wherein the server computer outputs at least one signal to cause the client computer to display the financial Web site.

4. A method comprising:

providing a financial Web site to display, based on a user-selected stock, a plurality of user-selectable elements associated with a respective plurality of stocks that are determined to be related to the user-selected stock, each stock of the plurality of stocks being determined to be related to the user-selected stock based on a respective correlation between postings of messages for the stock and the user-selected stock, each respective correlation being between a respective time series of an aggregate level of messaging for its respective stock and a time series of an aggregate level of messaging for the user-selected stock, wherein each of the plurality of user-selectable elements is user-selectable to retrieve information from a message board associated with its respective one of the plurality of stocks, wherein said providing the financial Web site is performed by at least one computer.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein each of the plurality of user-selectable elements comprises a respective link to a respective uniform resource locator (URL).

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the at least one computer comprises a server computer and a client computer, wherein the server computer outputs at least one signal to cause the client computer to display the financial Web site.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program, the computer program to cause at least one computer to provide a financial Web site to display, based on a user-selected stock, a plurality of user-selectable elements associated with a respective plurality of stocks that are determined to be related to the user-selected stock, each stock of the plurality of stocks being determined to be related to the user-selected stock based on a respective correlation between postings of messages for the stock and the user-selected stock, each respective correlation being between a respective time series of an aggregate level of messaging for its respective stock and a time series of an aggregate level of messaging for the user-selected stock, wherein each of the plurality of user-selectable elements is user-selectable to retrieve information from a message board associated with its respective one of the plurality of stocks.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein each of the plurality of user-selectable elements comprises a respective link to a respective uniform resource locator (URL).

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein the at least one computer comprises a server computer and a client computer, wherein the server computer outputs at least one signal to cause the client computer to display the financial Web site.