Patent ID: 8010438
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of managing market information, comprising the steps of: (a) electronically receiving with a computer system data including confidential information regarding market participants, wherein said data regarding market participants comprises data regarding a first market participant and a second market participant; (b) electronically receiving with said computer system an electronically executable order and targeting parameters from said first market participant; (c) electronically receiving with said computer system confidential trading interest information from said second market participant; (d) identifying said second market participant as a market participant that is most likely to take a contra side of said electronically executable order and as unlikely to use information regarding said order in a manner that would affect the price or availability of said security, wherein said step of identifying is based, at least in part, on said received confidential information regarding market participants; (e) routing said electronically executable order to said identified second market participant without revealing said first market participant's identity or other confidential information regarding said first market participant to said second market participant, and wherein no information regarding said second market participant or said confidential trading interest information received from said second market participant is transferred to said first market participant; and (f) producing a targeted dissemination list of market participants based, at least in part, on said received confidential information regarding market participants and said order and targeting parameters, and wherein the step of identifying a second market participant that is most likely to take a contra side of said order is based on said dissemination list.