Patent ID: 8548891
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for an issuer to fund one of a purchase or construction of a financed property to be leased to a user, through issuing preferred stock by the issuer to third party investors, wherein the issuer, the user, and a parent company are within a consolidated group, comprising the acts of: a) providing a computer programmed to forecast multi-year financial results of the consolidated group; b) receiving, at the computer, the following inputs: the inputs being stored as a first electronic record; c) generating, based on the first electronic record, via the computer, the following outputs: iii) an effect of each of net earnings, net cash flow, and balance sheet liabilities, collectively defining financial metrics of the consolidated group, resulting from funding the purchase or construction of the financed property through the issuance of the preferred stock, in comparison to a corresponding effect of each of a third party lease or a mortgage financing; to obtain use of the financed property; the outputs being stored as a second electronic record; d) comparing, at the computer, the financial metrics resulting from each of (i) issuing common stock to the parent company and preferred stock to investors outside the consolidated group and using proceeds of the stock issuance to fund the issuer's purchase or construction of the financed property, (ii) leasing the financed property from an unrelated third party, or (iii) purchasing the financed property using proceeds of a third party loan secured by the financed property; e) determining, based on the results of the comparison at step (d) which of (d)(i), (d)(ii) or (d)(iii) to employ; wherein, in response to a determination made in step (e) to employ step (d)(i), a decision is made to: grant issuer one or more options to redeem the preferred stock prior to an expiration of a useful life of the financed property; require, under the internal lease between the issuer and the user, payment of the internal rents in an amount sufficient to fund the issuer's payment of dividends on the preferred stock; and grant holders of the preferred stock the right to enforce a prohibition, applicable while the preferred stock is outstanding, against sale or encumbrance of the financed property without either