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• US 8,457,994 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2012
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Hersch, Stuart
• Primary Examiner(s): JOHNSON, GREGORY L
• Application Number:
  US13/541,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20120278112A1
• Time in Patent Office: 336 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/4
• 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 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A server may receive from a trading system information on an insurance policy, in which the information may include privacy related information. The server may compare the privacy related information to at least one predefined characteristic and determine that there is a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic. Based at least in part on there being a match, the server may filter-out the insurance policy such that the information on the insurance policy is not provided to a workstation in use by a participant. Alternatively, the server may determine that there is not a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic and provide the information, minus the privacy related information, to the workstation.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one computing device; and

at least one memory device having instructions stored thereon that when executed by the at least one computing device direct the at least one computing device;

receive from a workstation in use by a participant a request to obtain information on items that match at least one criteria;

forward the request to a server;

receive from the server information on at least one item that matched the at least one criteria, in which the information on the at least one item includes;

first information, and

second information;

compare the second information on the at least one item to at least one predefined characteristic;

determine that there is a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic;

based at least in part on determining that there is the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic, filter-out the at least one item such that the information on the at least one item is not communicated to the workstation in use by the participant, and in which filtering-out the at least one item further includes not providing to the server the at least one predefined characteristic;

determine that there is not a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic; and

based at least in part on determining that there is not the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic, communicate the first information but not the second information on the at least one item to the workstation in use by the participant.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the request comprises a search request to obtain, from a plurality of items, information on those items that match the at least one criteria.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the request and the at least one criteria comprise a request to obtain, from a plurality of items, information on those items for which bids to purchase the items may be made by the participant.

4. The apparatus of claim 1,

in which the at least one criteria comprises a specified item;

and

in which the request comprise a request to obtain, from a plurality of items, information on items that are related to the specified item.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the at least one predefined characteristic is specified by the participant.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions, that when executed by the at least one computing device further direct the at least one computing device to obtain the at least one predefined characteristic from a database.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the server comprises a system for auctioning items.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the request comprises the at least one predefined characteristic.

9. The apparatus of claim 1,

in which the at least one predefined characteristic comprises an identity of a possible broker attempting to sell items;

and

in which to determine that there is the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic comprises to determine that a broker attempting to sell the at least one item matches the identity of the possible broker.

10. The apparatus of claim 1,

in which the at least one predefined characteristic comprises an identity of a possible owner of items;

and

in which to determine that there is a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic comprises to determine that an owner of the at least one item matches the identity of the possible owner of items.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the second information comprises an identity of at least one owner of the at least one item.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, in which different entities own the server and the at least one computing device.

13. An apparatus comprising:

at least one computing device; and

at least one memory device having instructions stored thereon that when executed by the at least one computing device direct the at least one computing device;

receive from a server information on at least one item, in which the information on the at least one item includes;

first information, and

second information;

compare the second information on the at least one item to at least one predefined characteristic;

determine that there is a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic;

based at least in part on determining that there is the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic, filter-out the at least one item such that the information on the at least one item is not communicated to a workstation in use by a participant, and in which filtering-out the at least one item further includes not providing to the server the at least one predefined characteristic;

determine that there is not a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic; and

based at least in part on determining that there is not the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic, communicate the first information but not the second information on the at least one item to the workstation.

14. The apparatus of claim 13,

in which the at least one predefined characteristic comprises an identity of a possible broker attempting to sell items;

and

in which to determine that there is a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic comprises to determine that a broker attempting to sell the at least one item matches the identity of the possible broker.

15. The apparatus of claim 13,

in which the at least one predefined characteristic comprises an identity of a possible owner of items;

and

in which to determine that there is the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic comprises to determine that an owner of the at least one item matches the identity of the possible owner of items.

16. The apparatus of claim 13,

in which different entities own the server and the at least one computing device.

17. The apparatus of claim 13, in which the server comprises a system for auctioning items.

18. The apparatus of claim 13, in which the information received from the server includes information on at least one item for which one or more bids to purchase the item may be made by the participant.

19. A method comprising:

receiving, by at least one computing device, from a workstation is use by a participant a request to obtain information on items that match at least one criteria;

forwarding, by the at least one computing device, the request to a server;

receiving, by the at least one computing device, from the server information on at least one item that matched the at least one criteria, in which the information on the at least one item includes;

first information, and

second information;

comparing, by the at least one computing device, the second information on the at least one item to at least one predefined characteristic;

determining, by the at least one computing device, that there is a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic; and

based at least in part on determining that there is the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic, filtering-out, by the at least one computing device, the at least one item such that the information on the at least one item is not communicate to the workstation in use by the participant, and in which filtering-out the at least one item further includes not providing to the server the at least one predefined characteristic.

20. The method of claim 19,

in which the at least one predefined characteristic comprises an identity of a possible broker attempting to sell items;

and

in which determining that there is the match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic comprises determining that that a broker attempting to sell the at least one item matches the identity of the possible broker.

21. The method of claim 19,

in which the at least one predefined characteristic comprises an identity of a possible owner of items;

and

in which determining that there is a match between the second information and the at least one predefined characteristic comprises determining that an owner of the at least one item matches the identity of the possible owner of items.

22. The method of claim 19, in which the request and the at least one criteria comprise a request to obtain, from a plurality of items, information on those items for which bids to purchase the items may be made by the participant.