Patent ID: 7313540

Claim:
An electronic communication method for facilitating financial transactions between buyers and sellers of investment contracts, comprising: defining via a buyer computing arrangement an import specification identifying database format characteristics of investment plan information stored in a first database; mapping, via the buyer computing arrangement, data fields from the first database to data fields in a second database to create a data import map, wherein the data fields in the second database are predefined data fields; importing, via the buyer computing arrangement, the investment plan information into the predefined data fields of the second database according to the import specification and data import map; electronically transferring the investment plan information of the second database via the buyer computing arrangement to a central database accessible by the investment contract sellers; storing the investment plan information at the central database in a plurality of secure database locations each respectively accessible to the investment contract sellers authorized by the investment contract buyers to receive the investment plan information; electronically transferring the investment plan information from the secure database locations of the central database to seller computing arrangements of the authorized investment contract sellers upon initiation by the authorized investment contract sellers via the seller computing arrangements; and creating, via the seller computing arrangements, respective proposed investment contracts from the investment plan information received via the central database.