Patent ID: 6061661
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A computerized method, utilized by an administrator, for monitoring and maintaining a financial product, purchased by a plurality of subscribers, paying increasing income to a plurality of primary beneficiaries based upon their comparable survival in a predetermined group including the steps of:providing a computer system for processing transactions, including payments by said subscribers, investments and increasing income payments, and for reporting the status of beneficiary accounts;monitoring, via said computer system, the establishment of a plurality of contracts for a corresponding plurality of primary beneficiaries, each primary beneficiary of said plurality of primary beneficiaries designating a corresponding secondary beneficiary;segregating, via said computer system, said plurality of primary beneficiaries into a plurality of contract groups, each contract group utilizing one contract of said plurality of contracts, wherein each primary beneficiary of a respective contract group has (i) substantially similar demographics as compared with others in the same contract group, and (ii) a similar contract compared with others in the same contract group;monitoring, via said computer system, compliance with contractual parameters which parameters define unique attributes of a respective contract of said plurality of contracts for said respective contract group, said contractual parameters including:(i) at least one inception parameter,(ii) financial obligations of said administrator prior to inception,(iii) a closure parameter including one from the group of a maximum number of primary beneficiaries in said contract group, a total monetary limit associated with said respective contract for said respective contract group, and a predetermined time period factor,(iv) an expiration parameter including at least one from the group of death of all primary beneficiaries in said respective contract group, time from inception, and time from closure,(v) the presence or absence of an income target value, said income target value including factors relative to income generation from a predetermined investment, prospective and realized capital gain, and an investment time factor associated with said predetermined investment; and,(vi) invasion of principal parameter;directing, via said computer system, the investment of funds created by said payments by said subscribers on behalf of said primary beneficiaries in compliance with said contractual parameters for said plurality of contracts;directing and reporting, via said computer system, the payment of increasing income to primary beneficiaries surviving others in said respective contract group of said plurality of contract groups; and,directing and reporting, via said computer system, the payment of principal to said secondary beneficiaries upon the occurrence of one of the aforementioned expiration parameters established in said respective contract for said respective contract group.