System and method for using an analogy in the management of personal finances

• US 8,595,105 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2011
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fantasy Finance Ventures LLC
• Original Assignee: Fantasy Finance Ventures LLC
• Inventors: Hirsch, David
• Primary Examiner(s): OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA
• Application Number:
  US13/176,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20120246045A1
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 382/115, 380/277, 463/29, 700/91
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03

Abstract

A system for presenting a user'"'"'s financial status captures a user'"'"'s financial, demographic and goal information and calculates the user'"'"'s financial status based upon their goals. The system then translates the user'"'"'s financial status into an analogy that the user is apt to understand better than financial terms. The user is presented with their financial status in terms of the analogy such as a score. One such analogy is a football game, in which the user'"'"'s financial status is translated and portrayed/displayed in terms of a football game, winning (attaining his or her goals) or losing (not doing well at attaining the goals), etc.

Claims

1. A system for presenting financial data, the system comprising:

a computer;

storage operatively interfaced to the computer;

a user profile stored on the storage, the user profile containing user information and user financial data; and

software running on the computer, the software reads the user profile and translates the user information and the user financial data into a financial status, the user profile comprises user information and financial data, the user information comprises an age of the user or a date of birth of the user, an age of retirement goal, and the financial data comprises one or more data selected from the group consisting of assets, incomes, debts and expenses;

the software calculates a time remaining that is proportionate to the number of years until the age of retirement goal is achieved, an estimate of the time that the user will be soluble after retirement based on the assets that the user is predicated to accumulate and the software calculates an estimate of time that the user needs to plan for after retirement based on an estimated life expectancy of the user;

the software translates the estimate of time that the user will be soluble after retirement into a home score and translates the estimate of time that the user needs to plan for after retirement into an away score;

the software displays the home score and away score in a scoreboard format of a predetermined sports analogy.

2. The system for presenting financial data of claim 1, wherein the predetermined sports analogy is an analogy to a football game, the presentation format is in the format of a scoreboard for the football game, and the score includes the home score and the away score.

3. The system for presenting financial data of claim 2, wherein the scoreboard further includes, quarter, down, and possession of the football.

4. The system for presenting financial data of claim 2, wherein the user financial data comprises a set of assets and the user allocates the assets to one or more player positions of the predetermined sport analogy in a formation map of the predetermined sport analogy.

5. The system for presenting financial data of claim 3, wherein the user financial data comprises a set of assets and the user allocates the assets to one or more football player positions on a formation map of the football game.

6. The system for presenting financial data of claim 1, wherein the sport analogy is a baseball game analogy and the scoreboard representing the financial status in terms of the baseball game analogy further comprises inning, outs, and team at-bat in the baseball game analogy.

7. The system for presenting financial data of claim 1, wherein the sport analogy is a soccer game analogy and the scoreboard representing the financial status in terms of the soccer game analogy further comprises period, minutes, seconds, and possession of the ball in the soccer game analogy.

8. The system for presenting financial data of claim 1, wherein the sport analogy is a hockey game analogy and the scoreboard representing the financial status in terms of the hockey game analogy further comprises period, and minutes, seconds, and possession of the puck in the hockey game analogy.

9. The system for presenting financial data of claim 1, wherein the sport analogy is a basketball game analogy and the scoreboard representing the financial status in terms of the basketball game analogy further comprises, quarter, minutes, seconds, and possession of the ball in the basketball game analogy.

10. The system for presenting financial data of claim 1, wherein the user financial data comprises a set of assets and the user allocates the assets to one or more elements of the predetermined sport analogy in a formation map of the predetermined analogy.

11. A method of presenting financial data, the method comprising:

entering data into a user profile, the user profile stored in a storage of a computer, the user profile containing user information and user financial data;

entering an age or date of birth of the user,

an age of retirement goal, and one or more data selected from the list consisting of assets, incomes, debts and expenses;

calculating by the computer a financial status based upon the user information and user financial data;

calculating a time remaining that is proportionate to the number of years until the age of retirement goal is achieved and an estimate of the time that the user will be soluble after retirement based on the assets that the user is predicated to accumulate;

calculating an estimate of time that the user needs to plan for after retirement based on an estimated life expectancy of the user;

translating by the computer of the financial status into a presentation view according to a predetermined sports analogy by translating the estimate of time that the user will be soluble after retirement into a home score of the user and translating the estimate of time that the user needs to plan for after retirement into an away score; and

displaying by the computer of the presentation view being in terms of a scoreboard of the sports analogy, the scoreboard comprising the home score, the away score, and time remaining of the sports analogy.

12. The method of presenting financial data of claim 11, further comprising the step of entering changes to the data and repeating the steps of calculating, translating, and displaying.

13. The method of presenting financial data of claim 11, wherein the sports analogy is football and the step of displaying comprises displaying of the home score, the away score, time-remaining, quarter, down, and possession of a football game.

14. The method of presenting financial data of claim 13, wherein the user financial data comprises a set of assets and the method further comprises allocating the assets to one or more football player positions on a formation map of the football game.

15. The method of presenting financial data of claim 11, wherein the user financial data comprises a set of assets and the method further comprises allocating the assets to one or more elements of the sports analogy.

16. The method of presenting financial data of claim 11, wherein the sports analogy is a baseball game and the step of displaying includes displaying scores, inning, outs, and team at-bat in the baseball game.

17. The method of presenting financial data of claim 11, wherein the sports analogy is a soccer game and the step of displaying includes displaying scores, period, minutes, seconds, and possession in the soccer game.

18. The method of presenting financial data of claim 11, wherein the sports analogy is a hockey game and the step of displaying includes displaying scores, period, and minutes, seconds and possession in the hockey game.

19. The method of presenting financial data of claim 11, wherein the sports analogy is a basketball game and the step of displaying includes displaying scores, quarter, minutes, seconds, and possession in the basketball game.

20. Program instructions tangibly embodied in a non-transitory tangible storage medium comprising at least one instruction configured to implement a financial status display system, wherein the at least one instruction comprises:

computer readable instructions for reading a user profile stored in the storage medium, the user profile containing user information and user financial data, the user information comprises an age of the user or a date of birth of the user, an age of retirement goal, and the financial data comprises one or more data selected from the group consisting of assets, incomes, debts and expenses;

computer readable instructions for calculating a time remaining that is proportionate to the number of years until the age of retirement goal is achieved, an estimate of the time that the user will be soluble after retirement based on the assets that the user is predicated to accumulate and the software calculates an estimate of time that the user needs to plan for after retirement based on an estimated life expectancy of the user;

computer readable instructions for translating the estimate of time that the user will be soluble after retirement into a home score and translates the estimate of time that the user needs to plan for after retirement into an away score; and

computer readable instructions for displaying the home score and away score in a scoreboard format of a predetermined sports analogy.

21. The program instructions tangibly embodied in a tangible storage medium of claim 20, further comprising at least one instruction configured for displaying time-remaining, quarter, down, and possession of the football game.

22. The program instructions tangibly embodied in a tangible storage medium of claim 20, wherein the user financial data comprises a set of assets and the at least one instruction comprises computer readable instructions for allocating the assets to one or more football player positions on a formation map of the football game.