Patent ID: 8176127

Claim:
A method for communicating instructions to a computerized order management system (OMS) of a securities brokerage firm, the method comprising a computerized system: receiving a plurality of electronic communications via a communications network, wherein at least one of the plurality of electronic communications comprises a textual body of natural language content; displaying the textual body of natural language content of the at least one of the plurality of electronic communications on a display screen of the computerized order management system (OMS); scanning the textual body of natural language content of the at least one of the plurality of electronic communications to identify at least one of a predefined plurality of keywords corresponding to a command to execute a trade by the OMS, each of said plurality of keywords corresponding to a respective instruction to execute a request to trade by the OMS; parsing the textual body of natural language content of the at least one of the plurality of electronic communications to identify at least one parameter corresponding to the respective instruction to execute the request to trade by the OMS; identifying, based at least in part, on the at least one of a predefined plurality of keywords and the at least one parameter, the request to trade; preparing, in response to scanning and parsing, an OMS-compliant communication including the at least one of a predefined plurality of keywords and the at least one parameter reflecting the respective instruction to execute the trade by the OMS; and transmitting the OMS-compliant communication to the OMS via a communications network.