Patent ID: 8538861

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for enhancing the efficiency of digitally communicating a financial message from a first computer to a second computer of an interconnected computer system, which method comprises the steps: (A) (1) employing said first computer to generate a data compression coding scheme based on order-units present in an unencoded version of said financial message; (2) employing said computer-generated coding scheme to produce a database of order-units present in said unencoded version of said financial message; and (3) employing said produced database to form an encoded version of said financial message; wherein said data compression technique is customized so that said computer-generated coding scheme allocates shorter codes to order-units having a higher p-value in said unencoded financial message and longer codes to order-units having a lower p-value present in said unencoded version of said financial message; wherein said p-value is a metric of the moving average of the frequency of said order-unit, weighted by its assigned importance, relative to other order-units in said message(s), such that an order-unit having a higher importance-weighted frequency is assigned a higher p-value than an order-unit having a lesser importance-weighted frequency; and wherein the message length of said encoded version of said financial message is shorter than the message length of said unencoded version of said financial message; and (B) digitally communicating said encoded version of said financial message from said first computer to said second computer, directly or via one or more intermediate computers.