Patents Assigned to Smart Money
  • Patent number: 6583794
    Abstract: A computer interface system for providing a visual display of a financial market comprising a plurality of display sectors, each display sector representing a financial sector, and the size of each display sector corresponding to a specified characteristic of the financial sector. Furthermore, a plurality of company regions are disposed within each display sector, each company region representing a company, and each of the company regions associated with a financial sector represented by the display sector. The size of each company region corresponds to a specified characteristic of said company region. In one embodiment the specified characteristic may be market capitalization. The display sectors may be further divided into a plurality of industry regions, wherein each industry region corresponds to an industry within the financial sector represented by the corresponding display sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Smart Money
    Inventor: Martin Wattenberg