Patent ID: 8156438

Claim:
A system for processing electronic data which is transmitted from a host computer to a client computer so as to convert the electronic data into a target format which differs from a format in which the electronic data was received at the host computer, comprising: a first module to receive and store the electronic data from a first computer network on the host computer via a technical interface at a request of the client computer in a second computer network; a second module to convert the electronic data received at the host computer using a conversion rule, into an object-oriented data format which can be processed by the client computer; a third module to transmit the converted electronic data to the client computer at the request of said client computer, a display unit of the client computer which displays the transmitted data as displayed graphical objects; a fourth module for interactive processing of the transmitted data on the client computer, wherein a specific representative form of at least one of the displayed graphical objects is dynamically-continuously adapted in order for the at least one displayed graphical object to display an assigned information content of a security's market performance as a function of time, wherein the at least one displayed graphical object comprises a graphical icon which migrates across a defined field of the display unit during trading hours of a market, and wherein at least some of the displayed graphical objects have a function of interactive buttons, wherein the interactive buttons are operative to activate information-processing events from user or system-triggered actions.