Method and system for providing mandatorily convertible securities with an associated call spread against a trust
Granted: January 5, 2010
Patent Number:
7644025
The present invention relates to a method and system for offering a novel mandatorily convertible securities (e.g., DECS) by using a third party entity (either a corporate entity or a newly-formed independent trust) to: 1) issue and sell novel DECS to market investors; 2) obtain from a first entity shares of common stock in a second entity, or rights to receive such shares in the future, to satisfy the mandatory conversion requirement of the DECS; 3) sell or retain the rights to any…
Method and system for artificial neural networks to predict price movements in the financial markets
Granted: May 5, 2009
Patent Number:
7529703
The present invention relates to methods and systems for devising and implementing automated artificial neural networks to predict market performance and direction movements of the U.S. Treasury market, mortgage option-adjusted spreads (OAS), interest rate swap spreads, and U.S. Dollar/Mexican Peso exchange rate. The methods and systems of the present invention employ techniques used in actual neural networks naturally occurring in biological organisms to develop artificial neural…
Method and system for providing dividend enhanced convertible stocks with acceleration triggers
Granted: August 14, 2007
Patent Number:
7257555
The present invention relates to a method and system for providing and/or offering mandatory convertible securities, such as dividend enhanced common/convertible stocks (DECS), with acceleration triggers for securities conversion. The acceleration triggers are attractive to investors of such mandatory convertible securities because they can provide investors with timely returns and/or equities in the issuer should events not favorable to the investors happen prior to a preset securities…
Method and system for providing mandatorily convertible securities with associated senior debt instruments
Granted: August 14, 2007
Patent Number:
7257556
The present invention relates to a method and system for providing and/or offering mandatorily convertible securities with associated senior debt instruments. The mandatorily convertible securities can be preferred stock or a purchase contract with the mandatorily convertible securities converting into a predetermined number of units of an underlying security on a mandatory conversion date. The predetermined number of units of an underlying security is based on a market value of the…
Method and system for file blocking in an electronic messaging system
Granted: March 21, 2006
Patent Number:
7017187
The invention provides a method and system for quickly and preemptively controlling the outbreak of destructive software applications sent in an electronic messaging system. Such system and method provide an additional component to an electronic messaging system to detect and block possible malicious applications in attachments of electronic messages. The additional component can be customized to suit the electronic messaging system and reconfigured to accommodate future virus threats.
