Patent ID: 8528907
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A system for playing an investing card game, comprising: memory for storing financial data indicative of a plurality of electronic financial instrument cards, the financial data for each of the plurality of the electronic financial instrument cards comprising data indicative of the financial instrument and a set of statistics related to the financial instrument at a particular instance of time, the data indicative of the set of statistics comprising data indicative of a plurality of key/value pairs, each key/value pair comprising data indicative of a key identifying a type of statistic and a corresponding value for the key; a display device; and logic configured to display a graphical element to the display device indicative of a deck of cards, the logic further configured to retrieve from memory first financial data corresponding to one of the plurality of electronic financial instrument cards based upon a selection of the graphical element by a first player, to display a first electronic financial instrument playing card comprising the first financial data to the display device, and to display a first player identifier corresponding to the first electronic financial instrument playing card, the logic further configured to receive a selection from the first player of one of a plurality of displayed first electronic financial instrument card key/value pairs, retrieve from memory for the second player financial data corresponding to one or more second player electronic financial instrument cards, display the second player electronic financial instrument card to the display device along with the second player identifiers upon selection by the first player of one of the plurality of displayed first electronic financial instrument card key/value pairs, the logic further configured to compare the value of the selected first player electronic financial instrument card key/value pair to the second player's electronic financial instrument card key/value pair having the same key as the selected first electronic financial instrument card key/value pair, and determining, based upon the comparison a prevailing electronic financial instrument playing card, the logic further configured to display to the display device data indicative of which player identifier is associated with the prevailing financial instrument playing card.