Patents Assigned to FMR LLC
  • Patent number: 8180873
    Abstract: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for subscribing to data feeds on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit data packets that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The data packets are captured at the data centers. The data packets are recombined. The recombined data can be analyzed for fraud detection, marketing analysis, network intrusion detection, customer service analysis, and/or performance analysis. If fraudulent activity is detected, then the user can be interdicted to prevent further fraudulent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Vijay C. Bhatt, Stephen Singh, Rajandra Laxman Kulkarni, Adam Greenberg
  • Patent number: 8166157
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for receiving a first information related to a first transaction associated with a first user session with a multi-tier enterprise application, the first information including performance data that is representative of how well components in at least two tiers of the enterprise application perform in executing the first transaction; and determining based on the first information whether the first transaction is associated with a prioritized aspect of the enterprise application, and if so, taking an action based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Gary R. Couture, William V. Arneth, III, Anne-Marie G. Tattan, Louis A. Iannucci, Scott M. Blandford, Monica Chandra, Caroline M. Moran, Deirdre M. Quigley, Gavin E. Wrenn, Lorcan B. Kelly, John T. Travers, Jean F. Armstrong
  • Patent number: 8145560
    Abstract: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for detecting fraudulent activity on a network. A user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit user requests that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. The user requests are captured at the data centers. The user requests are unified into a user session. The user session can be analyzed for fraud detection, marketing analysis, network intrusion detection, customer service analysis, and/or performance analysis. If fraudulent activity is detected, then the user can be interdicted to prevent further fraudulent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Rajandra Laxman Kulkarni, Vijay C. Bhatt, Stephen Singh, Dan Tonelli, Adam Greenberg
  • Patent number: 8131666
    Abstract: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for providing context-based user authentication, workflow processing and data management in a centralized application in communication with a plurality of third-party applications. Changed data from a first third-party application is received by a centralized application. The changed data is processed by the centralized application. The processing comprises determining an urgency type, a second third-party application to which at least a portion of the data is applicable, mapping the data to a second third-party application data structure, and generating a request including the data structure and based on the urgency type and the second third-party application. The request is sent to the second third-party application. Data in a database associated with the centralized application is updated based on the changed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Edward O'Brien, David Pett
  • Patent number: 8121943
    Abstract: An automated account management system provides a user with the ability to establish rules that dictate how the account management system is to manage the user's accounts. Once the user specifies a set of rules, the system automatically manages multiple accounts across multiple financial institutions in accordance with the user-defined rules. Other features, such as an on-line bill payment system, a money transfer system, and a retirement planning system, may be integrated within the automated account management system to provide the user with even greater control over his or her financial assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventor: Steve Elterich
  • Patent number: 8117108
    Abstract: Among other things, receiving public information about an actively managed fund, selecting a group of financial assets, determining a group of weights corresponding to the group of financial assets thereby determining a weighted group of financial assets, the weights being determined based only on the public information, and publishing the contents of the weighted group of financial assets, wherein an expected valuation of the weighted group of financial assets is within a threshold percentage of an expected valuation of the actively managed fund.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Ian P. Johnson, Stuart Evan Fross, Ralph Joseph Wolf, Brian Walters
  • Patent number: 8073757
    Abstract: An accounting system allows posting transactions to a general ledger of an Exchange Traded Fund. The accounting system includes a computer-assisted process that nets subscription and redemption orders that occurred over a particular time (e.g., one day) and records a transfer of securities into or out of the fund based on the net of the subscription and redemption orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Baldassini, Paul M. Murphy, Kirk Cleathero, Ian Johnson, Chip Russo, Timothy Hanifin, Gail Knudsen, James Boucher
  • Patent number: 8069113
    Abstract: An automated account management system provides a user with the ability to establish rules that dictate how the account management system is to manage the user's accounts. Once the user specifies a set of rules, the system automatically manages multiple accounts across multiple financial institutions in accordance with the user-defined rules. Other features, such as an on-line bill payment system, a money transfer system, and a retirement planning system, may be integrated within the automated account management system to provide the user with even greater control over his or her financial assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventor: Steve Elterich
  • Patent number: 8055570
    Abstract: A method for controlling resource pool depletion includes, at a first time, determining a first remainder of a depletion interval; on the basis of the first remainder, determining a first depletion rate for urging the pool to reach a selected state at the end of the depletion interval; on the basis of the first depletion rate, partially depleting the pool; and at a second time following the first time, determining a second remainder of the depletion interval; receiving state information indicative of a difference between a state of the pool at the first time and a state of the resource pool at the second time; on the basis of the second remainder and the state information, determining a second depletion rate for urging the pool to reach a selected state at the end of the depletion interval; and on the basis of the second depletion rate, partially depleting the pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Shelon, Ren Cheng, Stephen D. Fisher, Peter Herlihy, Ya Jin
  • Patent number: 8051000
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems, including computer program products, for trade strategy monitoring. A back-end server can receive a first input from a first client device indicative of a first trade strategy and a first test parameter. The back-end server can obtain historical data associated with the first trade strategy, execute the first trade strategy on the historical data in accordance with the first test parameter, and transmit the results in a normalized format to the first client device. The back-end server can receive a second input from a second client device indicative of a second trade strategy and a second test parameter. The back-end server can obtain historical data associated with the second trade strategy, execute the second trade strategy on the historical data in accordance with the second test parameter, and transmits the results in a normalized format to the second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Dion Keith Kurczek, James Mazzu, George Rozanitis, Franklin Harold Gold, Chad Pangborn, Alonzo Kent Thacker, Max Matthew George
  • Patent number: 8036984
    Abstract: An automated account management system provides a user with the ability to establish rules that dictate how the account management system is to manage the user's accounts. Once the user specifies a set of rules, the system automatically manages multiple accounts across multiple financial institutions in accordance with the user-defined rules. Other features, such as an on-line bill payment system, a money transfer system, and a retirement planning system, may be integrated within the automated account management system to provide the user with even greater control over his or her financial assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventor: Steve Elterich
  • Patent number: 8019671
    Abstract: Data corresponding to a set of securities is identified. For each security in the set, data corresponding to a legacy risk contribution from a corresponding security in the set is identified. Data corresponding to a legacy risk of the entire set is identified based on the legacy risk contributions. The legacy risk is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventor: Chris Goolgasian
  • Patent number: 8010971
    Abstract: An application destined for a client VoIP device is available at a service provider 20 and is loaded first to a client-side device over an unsecure public network, using a secure protocol. The VoIP device is not able to receive the application directly using the secure protocol and the client side device is instructed to load the application to the client VoIP device over a private network using an unsecure protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Singh, Fergal Glynn
  • Patent number: 7991632
    Abstract: Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for optimizing allocation of resources across projects in a project portfolio. The method includes receiving, at a computing device, (i) resource information, (ii) a portfolio of project definitions and (iii) one or more portfolio-level optimization criteria. The resource information representing a plurality of resources available for allocation to the projects, and each project definition includes a unique identifier and one or more project-level constraints. The method also includes generating, using the computing device, a plurality of project portfolio allocation scenarios and determining one or more optimized project portfolio allocation scenarios from the plurality of project portfolio allocation scenarios. Each project portfolio allocation scenario satisfies the one or more project-level constraints associated with each project definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Sean Morris, Keith Kroeger, Thomas McGuire, Igor Nikolaev
  • Patent number: 7975000
    Abstract: Performing A/B testing of content of a webpage includes selecting one of at least two different versions of the webpage to be displayed to a user through an interactive user interface (e.g., a web browser) based on an identification code, such as an Internet Protocol address or tracker identifier supplied by a cookie, associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Eleri Dixon, Emily Enos, Scott Brodmerkle
  • Publication number: 20110035330
    Abstract: Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for quality control of investment performance calculations. Performance data associated with one or more investment accounts is received by a server computing device. A tolerance range associated with the performance data is generated. A portion of the performance data is identified for filtering based on the tolerance range. The identified performance data is processed through a plurality of filters, wherein the filters are based on predefined rules. A first portion of the filtered data is marked as requiring no further review. A second portion of the filtered data is marked as requiring further review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Francis Li, Stephen Dorato, Nixon Lim, Jon Reese
  • Publication number: 20110022312
    Abstract: Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for tracking patterns associated with mobile devices. The system includes a server computing device configured to receive location information from a mobile device associated with a user. The location information includes location information based on GPS information sent from the mobile device. One or more activity patterns associated with the user of the mobile device are generated by the server computing device. The generating includes tracking the location information over a period of time and determining one or more categories of repeated activity based on the tracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: FMR LLC
    Inventors: John C. McDonough, Hadley Rupert Stern
  • Publication number: 20110023063
    Abstract: products, for inserting personalized information into digital content. A request for digital video content is received by a computing device. The request includes authentication data associated with a user of a client device. Personalized data to be inserted into the requested video content is generated by the computing device. The personalized data and the requested video content are combined by the computing device. The combining includes replacing one or more frames of the requested video content with the personalized data to generate personalized video content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: FMR LLC
    Inventors: John C. McDonough, Hadley Rupert Stern
  • Publication number: 20110022540
    Abstract: Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for location-based address determination and real estate valuation. Current location information from a mobile device is received by a server computing device. The location information includes global positioning data associated with the mobile device and photographic data associated with one or more photos taken by the mobile device and associated with the location. A street address based on the location information is determined by the server computing device. The photographic data is processed in associated with the global positioning data, wherein the photographic data is used to determine the street address. Financial data associated with the street address is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Hadley Rupert Stern, John C. McDonough
  • Patent number: 7870051
    Abstract: A method of constructing a portfolio includes receiving target allocations for different types of assets, receiving a list of investments available for inclusion in the portfolio, and selecting investments from the list of investments based on a measure of the risk-adjusted excess return of selected investments and the target allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Xuehai En, William Van Harlow, Hsiaoping R. Hua, Scott Kuldell