System and method for creating trade-related annotations in an electronic trading environment

• US 8,706,609 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2013
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Inventors: Strauss, Mark Leon, Ziemkiewicz, Peter Francis
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Hai
• Application Number:
  US13/741,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20130132260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 705/37
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• 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

Abstract

A client terminal displays a trading screen interface and an annotation interface in relation to the trading screen interface. The annotation interface allows a trader to enter trade-related annotations in a quick and efficient manner or flag a predetermined time and input annotations to be associated with the flagged time a later time, while the trading screen interface allows the trader to make trades at the most favorable prices and in a speedy manner. The annotation interface may alternatively not be displayed and allow for audio input.

Claims

1. A computing device for annotating market information, the computing device comprising:

a market data receiver configured to receive market data for a tradeable object;

an output device coupled with the market data receiver and configured to display the received market data;

an electronic processor coupled with the market data receiver and the output device, where the electronic processor is configured to;

assign an annotation marker for a flagged portion of the received market data, where a user-selectable indicator associated with the annotation marker is displayed via the output device and an annotation record is displayed via the output device in response to a selection of the indicator; and

an electronic storage medium coupled with the electronic processor and configured to store user data with the annotation record.

2. The computing device of claim 1, where the output device is configured to display the received market data in a first display region and display the user-selectable indicator associated with the annotation marker in a second display region.

3. The computing device of claim 2, where the first display region comprises a trading screen interface.

4. The computing device of claim 2, where the second display region comprises at least one pop-up window.

5. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising an input device coupled with the electronic processor, where the electronic processor is configured to assign the annotation marker according to receiving a first user command via the input device to flag the portion of the received market data.

6. The computing device of claim 5, where the annotation marker is created in response to receiving the first user command.

7. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising an input device coupled with the electronic processor, where the selection of the indicator comprises receiving a second user command via the input device.

8. The computing device of claim 1, where the user data comprises at least one of audio data and textual data.

9. The computing device of claim 1, further comprising an input device, where the output device is further configured to display the user data in response to user input of the user data via the input device.

10. The computing device of claim 2, where the output device is further configured to display an activation identifier configured to activate the second display region.

11. The computing device of claim 1, where the output device is further configured to display a second display region in response to a selection of an activation identifier.

12. The computing device of claim 1, where the electronic storage medium is further configured to record the portion of the received market data and a time the portion of the received market data was flagged.

13. The computing device of claim 12, further comprising an input device, where the portion of the received market data and the time the portion of the received market data was flagged are recorded via the electronic storage medium in response to a first user command received via the input device.

14. The computing device of claim 13, where a user request to view the recorded received market data is received via the input device and in response to the user request, the recorded received market data is displayed via the output device.