Efficient market for financial products

• US 8,468,036 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Goknown LLC
• Original Assignee: Marketcore.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Erlanger, Michael David
• Primary Examiner(s): Trammell, James P
• Assistant Examiner(s): GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON
• Application Number:
  US13/243,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20120072246A1
• Time in Patent Office: 634 Days
• Field of Search: 705/4, 705/14.1, 705/14.25, 705/38
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0224 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• 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
• 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 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A data processing system is disclosed that provides an efficient market for financial products in which statistics regarding a plurality of stored data records containing financial product underwriting standards are calculated, stored in a data storage device, then made available to a data processing system participant at a price which is reduced for fees obtained from transactions associated with the data processing system participant in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database, and/or based on the data processing system participant providing one or more financial product data records.

Claims

1. Apparatus for providing a financial products market, comprising:

a data processing system having a program executing computer, a data storage device, and an output device;

a plurality of financial product underwriting standards data records stored in said data storage device containing financial underwriting standards from one or more financial product issuing institutions;

computer programs executing on said data processing system for;

compiling statistics regarding said plurality of stored data records containing financial product underwriting standards and storing statistics data records in said data storage device;

receiving financial product data records in said data storage device;

providing from said data processing system said statistics data records to a data processing system participant; and

calculating a price to the data processing system participant for said statistics data records provided to the data processing system participant, in which the price is reduced for fees obtained from transactions associated with the data processing system participant in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database, and/or based on the data processing system participant providing one or more data records.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said financial product underwriting standards data records relate to loans.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said financial product underwriting standards data records relate to lines of credit.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said financial product underwriting standards data records relate to pooled loans.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said financial product underwriting standards data records relate to insurance.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said financial product underwriting standards data records relate to insurance pools.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the one or more financial product issuing institutions are identified by an identity indicium.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the data processing system participant is identified by an identity indicium.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

computer programs executing on said data processing system for compiling statistics data records regarding pooled groups of financial products; and

storing said financial products pool statistics data records in said data storage device.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising computer programs executing on said data processing system for calculating a price to a data processing system participant for receiving said financial products pool statistics data records, and wherein said price is calculated in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database and/or based on the data processing system participant providing one or more financial product underwriting standards data records.

11. Apparatus for providing a market for purchase of financial products, comprising:

a data processing system having a program executing computer, a data storage device, and an output device;

a plurality of financial products underwriting standards data records stored in said data storage device containing financial products underwriting standards from one or more financial products issuing institutions;

computer programs executing on said data processing system for;

(a) compiling statistics regarding said plurality of stored data records containing financial products underwriting standards and storing statistics data records in said data storage device;

(b) calculating fees earned with respect to the one or more financial products issuing institutions;

(c) calculating a reduced price to the one or more financial products issuing institutions for access to said statistics data records in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database, and/or based on the financial products issuing institution providing one or more financial product underwriting standards data records.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

a plurality of financial product purchase offer data records stored in said data storage device containing financial product purchase offers from one or more data processing system participants;

computer programs executing on said data processing system for;

(a) compiling statistics data records regarding said stored plurality of financial product purchase offer data records containing financial product purchase offers and storing the financial product purchase offer statistics data records in said data storage device;

(b) calculating a fee earned with respect to one or more data processing system participants;

(c) calculating a reduced price to the one or more data processing system participants for access to said financial product purchase offer statistics data records in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database, and/or based on the data processing system participants providing one or more data records.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the one or more financial product issuing institutions are identified by an identity indicium.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the data processing system participant is identified by an identity indicium.

15. Apparatus for providing a market for purchase of financial products, comprising:

a data processing system having a program executing computer, a data storage device, and an output device;

a plurality of financial product purchase offer data records stored in said data storage device containing a plurality of financial product purchase offers from one or more data processing system participants;

computer programs executing on said data processing system for;

(a) compiling statistics regarding said a plurality of financial product purchase offer data records containing a plurality of financial product purchase offers;

(b) calculating fees earned with respect to one or more data processing system participants;

(c) calculating a reduced price to one or more data processing system participants for output of said statistics regarding said financial product purchase offer data records based on the calculated fees earned with respect to the one or more data processing system participants in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database, and/or based on the data processing system participants providing one or more financial product data records.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the data processing system participant is identified by an identity indicium.

17. A computer, comprising:

hardware and/or software designed to host a market for buying and selling of the financial products and a database of a pricing schedule for intermediation services and a database of data records of fees earned for intermediation of transactions in the market;

hardware and/or software designed to obtain information describing solicitations for financial products from a plurality of applicants for origination of the financial products, and to store the solicitation information in a database;

hardware and/or software designed to match the solicitation information against underwriting standards of a plurality of offerors of the financial products and to store the matched solicitation information and underwriting standards in a database;

hardware and/or software designed to receive information describing closed financial products, and to update a database with information describing the closed financial products; and

an interface designed to make the database with information describing closed financial products available for a fee, the fee being determined with respect to market participants who pay fees to participate in the market in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database, and/or based on the market participant'"'"'s providing data records regarding financial products solicitations information and closed financial product information.

18. The computer of claim 17, further comprising:

hardware and/or software designed to host a secondary market for buying and selling of derivative financial products based on the market for buying and selling of the financial products, and to maintain a record of fees earned for intermediation of transactions on the secondary market, a predetermined pricing schedule for intermediation services providing that transaction fees paid by a party for intermediation of transactions are to be credited against fees payable by the party for intermediation of other transactions, and providing for reduced pricing for access by a party to research information describing the financial products based on increased transaction volume achieved by the party over an agreed time period and/or based on the party'"'"'s providing data records regarding financial products solicitations information, closed financial product information, or derivative financial products information.

19. An apparatus, comprising:

a data processing system having a program executing computer, a data storage device, and an output device;

a plurality of insurance underwriting standards data records stored in said data storage device containing insurance underwriting standards from a plurality of insurance granting institutions;

computer programs executing on said data processing system for;

compiling statistics regarding said plurality of stored data records containing insurance underwriting standards and storing statistics data records in said data storage device;

providing from said data processing system said statistics to a data processing system participant;

calculating a price to the data processing system participant for said statistics data records provided to the data processing system participant, in which the price is reduced for fees obtained from transactions associated with the data processing system participant in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database and/or based on the data processing system participant providing one or more insurance underwriting standards data records.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, further comprising computer programs executing on said data processing system for:

receiving insurance pool data records from one or more insurance granting institutions;

compiling insurance purchase statistics regarding insurance pool purchase offer data records, and storing insurance purchase statistics data records in said data storage device.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising computer programs executing on said data processing system for calculating a price to a data processing system participant for receiving one or more insurance pool data records, wherein said price is calculated in accordance with a predetermined netbacking schedule stored in a netbacking database and/or based on the data processing system participant providing one or more financial product underwriting standards data records.

22. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein said data processing system participant is an insurance granting institution.

23. The apparatus of claim 22 wherein the insurance granting institution is identified by an identity indicium.