Patent ID: 8635296

Claim:
A method for communicating instructions via a communications network, the method comprising a computerized system: receiving, via a communications network, a plurality of electronic communications, wherein at least one of the plurality of electronic communications comprises a textual body of free-form natural language content; scanning the textual body of free-form natural language content of the at least one of the plurality of electronic communications to identify at least one of a predefined plurality of keywords, each of said plurality of keywords corresponding to a respective trading order instruction; parsing the textual body of free-form natural language content of the at least one of the plurality of electronic communications to identify at least one parameter corresponding to the respective trading order instruction; retrieving from a database, based at least in part, on the at least one of the predefined plurality of keywords and the at least one parameter, information relating to the respective trading order instruction; preparing, in response to scanning, parsing and retrieving, a responsive electronic communication providing the information retrieved from the database, the information based at least in part on the last one of the predefined plurality of keywords and the at least one parameter of the respective trading order instruction; and transmitting, to a sender of the at least one of the electronic communications via the communications network, the responsive electronic communication including the information retrieved from the database.