Patent ID: 8458085
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining a social networking system in a computer system, the social networking system having at least two users with at least two searchable social networking profiles; displaying communications within the social networking system between the at least two users, at least one of the communications including a ticker symbol as manually input into the at least one of the communications by at least one of the at least two users before communicating the at least one of the communications; converting, automatically and within the at least one of the communications, the displayed input ticker symbol into a ticker symbol hyperlink; displaying the ticker symbol hyperlink as the ticker symbol within the at least one of the communications to be visible to the at least two users within the social networking system; and in response to selecting the ticker symbol hyperlink within the at least one of the communications, initiating a display element internal to the social networking system displaying a synopsis of financial data about a financial instrument corresponding to the ticker symbol, the financial data retrieved from a data source external to the social networking system.