Patent ID: 7752110
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for graphically differentiating user preferred securities from one another on a client system for a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a continuously updated stream of security data for a plurality of securities to a server system from a security data source; presenting to the user an interface in the client system that allows the user to select user specific criteria for analyzing the security data; receiving user specific criteria for analyzing the security data from the user and transmitting the user specific criteria from a client system to the server system; identifying the user preferred securities from the plurality of securities based upon the user specific criteria in the server system; presenting to the user an interface in the client system that allows the user to select user specific parameters of the security data upon which the identified preferred securities can be differentiated; receiving N user specific parameters of the security data in the client system from the user, wherein N is a positive integer that is at least 4; generating a representation of the user preferred securities in an N dimensional graph on the client system based upon the N user specific parameters, the N dimensional graph comprising a three-dimensional coordinate system having mutually perpendicular axes intersecting at a common origin, each axis representing one of the N user specific parameters of the security data, each user preferred security being represented by a corresponding icon in the three-dimensional coordinate system and each icon representing only one user preferred security, said generating step selecting the location of each icon within the three-dimensional coordinate system in relation to the values that the icon's corresponding security has for three of the N user specific parameters, said generating step further generating one of the size, shape, color, or shading of each icon in relation to the value that the icon's corresponding security has for a fourth one of the N user specific parameters; displaying the representation to the user on a display screen.