Patent ID: 7216100

Claim:
An electronic data processing system for use by an investment entity for managing the transfer and allocation of monetary funds between a portfolio of investor accounts held by at least one investor, and a portfolio of at least one business account held by at least one original owner of a portfolio of at least one patent, the system comprising: (a) means for recording data; (b) means for crediting on the recording means for each respective investor account funds obtained from each respective investor, and for allocating to each investor account a percentage share that each investor account holds relative to the portfolio of investor accounts; (c) means for using at least one computer processor algorithm for determining the value of the patent portfolio; (d) means for recording on the recording means the value of the patent portfolio; (e) means for indicating on the recording means that a predetermined quantity of the funds from the portfolio of investor accounts are transferred to the at least one business account upon the transfer of title to each patent of the portfolio of at least one patent from the at least one original owner to a subsequent owner other than the original owner; (f) means for granting of a right to use the portfolio of at least one patent from the subsequent owner to at least the original owner in exchange for at least one payment to the business account, wherein the right granted to the original owner is less than an entire exclusive right to the portfolio; (g) means for indicating on the recording means that the at least one payment is transferred from the business account to the portfolio of investor accounts; and (h) means for indicating on the recording means that each payment to the portfolio of investor accounts is allocated to each investor account according to the percentage share that each respective investor account holds in the portfolio of investor accounts.