Patent ID: 7356500
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of managing securities market information, comprising the steps of: (a) electronically receiving over a computer network data including confidential trading interest information of securities market participants, wherein said data is not disseminated to any market participant upon receipt or at any future time and comprises data whose dissemination could affect the price or availability of a security; (b) electronically storing said received data including confidential trading interest information of securities market participants; (c) electronically receiving information from a first securities market participant's computer; (d) electronically storing said information received from said first securities market participant's computer; (e) producing a targeted dissemination list of securities market participants based on said confidential trading interest information of securities market participants and said information received from said first securities market participant's computer, wherein said targeted dissemination list excludes one or more market participants identified as unlikely to take the contra side to a specified trade and likely to use said information received from said first securities market participant's computer in a manner that would affect the price or availability of said security; and (f) electronically transmitting to the securities market participants on said targeted dissemination list data based on said information received from said first securities market participant's computer; wherein said first securities market participant's computer does not receive said confidential trading interest information of said securities market participants and does not receive information about size or composition of said targeted dissemination list.