Patent ID: 7882015
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating trading of items among a plurality of traders, the method comprising: (a) providing electronic communication among a plurality of workstations corresponding to the plurality of traders, each of the plurality of workstations running or being connected to an order management system; (b) storing, in a trading server, information indicating which of the traders have agreed to have their order management systems searched; (c) receiving, from a first one of the plurality of workstations into the trading server, an order for one of the items, the order including an identification of others of the plurality of traders with which the first one of the plurality of traders is willing to trade; (d) sending the order to the workstations of those of the plurality of traders which are identified in the order and which have agreed to have their order management systems searched; (e) at each of the workstations to which the order is sent in step (d), scanning the available set of orders from the order management system exposed to the subject system to determine whether there is a contra to the order or scanning information about the set of orders from the order management system exposed to the subject system; (f) at least one of the workstations in which it is determined in step (e) that there is a contra order to the order, providing a display concerning the order.