Patent ID: 7552077

Claim:
A method for distributing price information corresponding to a tradeable object over a network, the method comprising: receiving at a network device from an exchange a single price feed having a first data rate; determining a connection capacity of a connection between the network device and a client device; determining a second data rate that corresponds to the connection capacity of the connection, wherein the second data rate represents a slower connection speed than the first data rate; establishing a time period according to the second data rate; receiving at the network device during the time period a first price update in the single price feed having the first data rate; blocking the first price update from being distributed to the client device to not exceed the second data rate; storing the first price update in a data structure; receiving at the network device during the time period a second price update in the single price feed having the first data rate; blocking the second price update from being distributed to the client device to not exceed the second data rate; coalescing the first price update and the second price update into a coalesced price update in the data structure; and distributing a price feed with the coalesced price update at the second data rate to the client device over the connection when the time period expires.