Patent ID: 7191185
Filing Date: 2007-03-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating access to financial documents, comprising: receiving information associated with a financial document; determining a document tag associated with the financial document based on the received information; automatically analyzing financial content of the financial document to determine an appropriate entitlement rule, including; (i) an entitlement subject associated with a group of content readers, (ii) an entitlement resource associated with at least one financial document, and (iii) an entitlement action associated with the entitlement subject and the entitlement resource, wherein the entitlement action indicates whether a content reader associated with the entitlement subject can receive the financial document without being able to modify the financial document; before a content selection tag associated with a requesting content reader is determined, evaluating the entitlement rule in connection with a plurality of content readers to generate an entitlement vector that indicates which of the content readers will be able to access information associated with the financial document; determining the content selection tag associated with the requesting content reader; and arranging for the requesting content reader to receive information associated with the financial document based on the entitlement vector and a bit vector representing at least one of: (i) the document tag and a plurality of content selection tag sets, or (ii) a content selection tag set and a plurality of document tags.