Patent ID: 6920434

Claim:
A computerized method for establishing a loan participation network between a plurality of network members, said method comprising the steps of: establishing a loan participation database containing member data pertaining to each of said plurality of network members and loan criteria data specified by each of said plurality of network members; receiving a loan participation offer from an offering network member, said loan participation offer including offering network member data and loan participation data pertaining to a loan opportunity; searching said loan participation database in response to said loan participation offer for matching loan criteria data matching at least a portion of said requested loan data, and obtaining matching member data for at least one matching network member associated with said matching loan criteria data; providing said matching member data for each said matching network member to said offering network member; receiving a selection of at least one selected matching network member from said offering network member; providing a loan participation offer to each said selected matching network member in response to said selection of each said selected matching network member; receiving a response from at least one interested selected matching member; providing interested network member data pertaining to each said interested selected matching member to said offering network member in response to said response from each said interested selected matching member.