Patent ID: 7603308

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for displaying information relating to one or more analysts' estimates for one or more future events, comprising: retrieving, from a database operatively connected to a computer, information relating to one or more analysts' historical estimates for one or more historical events, and information relating to the one or more analysts' current estimates for one or more future events; determining, by the computer, an indication of historical accuracy for the one or more analysts based, in part, on the information relating to the one or more analysts' historical estimates for the one or more historical events; receiving a selection of a security from a user via a graphical user interface in communication with the computer; and displaying simultaneously, on a display device operatively connected to the computer, for the user-selected security, on an analyst by analyst basis, only for analysts from among the one or more analysts that have a current estimate for the user-selected security, and whose historical accuracy satisfies a predetermined threshold: i) an indication of historical accuracy for an analyst; and ii) the analyst's current estimate for a future event for the user-selected security.