Patent ID: 8694418

Claim:
A method for monitoring and/or transacting, via an electronic network, exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities comprising the steps of: analyzing, using a microprocessor, at least one of the exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities; collecting, using a microprocessor, data related to the at least one of the exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities being analyzed; accepting from a first user, using a microprocessor, information regarding a new offer to buy or sell the at least one of the exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities; posting, using a microprocessor, the new offer to buy or sell the at least one of the exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities for viewing by at least one user of the electronic network; querying, using a microprocessor, one or more financial inventory databases of pending offers to buy or sell one or more of the exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities to determine whether one or more of the pending offers to buy or sell match the new offer to buy or sell accepted from the first user; automatically transmitting a notification, upon finding a match, using a microprocessor, to one or more second users of the electronic network associated with the one or more pending offers to buy or sell of the match based upon notification preferences defined by the one or more second users; storing, using a microprocessor, the new offer to buy or sell the at least one of the exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities in at least one of a bid database and the financial inventory database; and providing, using a microprocessor, transactional access to conduct a sale or transfer of the at least one of the exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities associated with the new offer to buy or sell.