Patent ID: 7565313

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing market information across a network of data providers, comprising the steps of: (a) electronically receiving first data including confidential trading interest information regarding market participants in a first system that protects said first data behind a firewall; (b) electronically receiving second data including confidential trading interest information regarding market participants in a second system that protects said second data behind a firewall; (c) electronically issuing an advertisement request message from said first system to said second system, said advertisement request message comprising display attributes of said confidential trading interest information from said first system; (d) electronically prompting said second system via the advertisement request message to send a coordination request message to a Coordination Hub, said coordination request message comprising information deduced from said confidential trading interest information regarding market participants in said first and second systems; (e) electronically prompting based on the coordination request message said Coordination Hub to issue permissions to advertise the display attributes of the confidential trading interest information from said first system to said second system; and (f) electronically prompting said second system to display said display attributes of the confidential trading interest information from said first system based on the permissions to advertise.