Patent ID: 7529701

Claim:
A system supporting an employee stock plan comprising: an administrative server system that receives and stores employer-provided information concerning participants in an employee stock plan limited to acquisition of and trading in one or more of employer-issued stock and options on employer-issued stock; a trading server system that executes transactions on a public exchange; a finance server system communicably coupled to the administrative server system and the trading server system over a communications network; the finance server system receiving the employer-provided participant information from the administrative server system; the finance server system automatically creating and storing, without participant action, limited brokerage accounts based on the employer-provided participant information, the limited brokerage accounts being funded with one or more of employer-issued stock and options on employer-issued stock and used by the participants to initiate transactions through the trading server system solely in connection with the employee stock plan; the finance server system presenting an interface through which the participants use the limited brokerage accounts to initiate one or more transactions in connection with the employee stock plan through the trading server system, the one or more transactions comprising one or more of trades involving employer-issued stock and exercising of options on the employer-issued stock; the trading server system conducting the one or more transactions initiated by the participants using the limited brokerage accounts; the finance server system updating the limited brokerage accounts with information concerning the one or more transactions; the finance server system transmitting information concerning the updated limited brokerage accounts to the administration server system; and the administration server system updating the employer-provided participant information stored in the administrative server system with the information concerning the updated limited brokerage accounts.