Patent ID: 8065373
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. In a distributed computer system, a method for processing instant message information, the method comprising acts of: at a client computer, permitting a user to create at least one instant message, the at least one message having a plurality of unstructured free text strings identifying at least one securities trading command; generating, at the client computer, at least one portion of structured content based on at least one of the plurality of unstructured free text strings, the at least one portion of structured content identifying the at least one securities trading command; inserting the at least one portion of structured content within the at least one instant message; and transmitting the at least one instant message towards a destination system to be executed, wherein the act of inserting the at least one portion of structured content includes an act of inserting a code; and wherein the act of inserting the code, includes an act of inserting the code in an area of the at least one instant message that is not made visible to a user of an instant message application program.