Patent ID: 8266029

Claim:
A computer system for accessing, retrieving, analyzing and displaying data related to financial securities, comprising: a processor; a memory storage device in communication with the processor; and a client device having a display in communication with the processor; the processor adapted to: access, responsive to instructions received via one of a plurality of services, the services providing at least charting and analytics of data, a memory storage device having a catalog comprising at least logical locations of data related to issuers of the financial securities, addresses for a plurality of data sources storing data in a plurality of formats and having data related to the financial securities; and identification of types of data in the data sources; employ location data accessed from the catalog to access the data related to the issuers; transform the accessed data into a data structure compatible with the one of the plurality of services; in accordance with the one of the plurality of services, select and process the transformed data and provide an output signal for display of the transformed data on the display.