Patents by Inventor Ian Stocks

Ian Stocks has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220122176
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods that collapse risk in connection with electronic trades. The method includes collecting electronic trades, each electronic trade comprising party information, buy/sell information; determining hedge amounts for buys/sells for the electronic trades based on buy/sell data; simultaneously determining net hedge amounts for market participants; simultaneously determining a net hedge percentage for electronic trades; determining an individual hedge size for one or more first market participants based on a unique umbrella hedge value, wherein the umbrella hedge value for each of the first market participants is the net hedge percentage of said first market participant's net hedge amount; and distributing instructions to the plurality of market participants to fill the plurality of electronic trades at prices controlled by each first market participant's unique umbrella hedge value and by a composite mid-price for a plurality of second market participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ian Stocks, Christian Adam Bruner, Joseph Kimmel, Iseult Conlin, John Tosti, Justin Daniel Peterson
  • Patent number: 11094010
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments that provides the ability to manage customer credit limits, assess credit risks, and provide clearing certainty of trades. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of assessing credit risk, obtaining clearing certainty from a clearing member prior to trade execution, and providing notices of the existence or absence of clearing certainty with regard to particular trade requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Tradeweb Markets LLC
    Inventors: Elisabeth Kirby, Kevin Hill, Ian Stocks
  • Publication number: 20200051167
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments, and in particular for clearing odd lots, that provides the ability to receive, manage, match, and supervise orders. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of entering orders for desired positions, monitor the status of open positions, and obtain data in connection order requests. The trading platform is also capable of matching orders and sending orders to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Rupert Warmington, Ian Stocks, James W. Dale
  • Patent number: 10346912
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments, and in particular for clearing odd lots, that provides the ability to receive, manage, match, and supervise orders. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of entering orders for desired positions, monitor the status of open positions, and obtain data in connection order requests. The trading platform is also capable of matching orders and sending orders to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Tradeweb Markets LLC
    Inventors: Rupert Warmington, Ian Stocks, James W. Dale
  • Publication number: 20190172132
    Abstract: Computer implemented electronic trading systems and methods for spotting and hedging a plurality of electronic trades in order for multiple parties to execute and hedge the electronic trades at prices controlled by a common spot. The trading systems include one or more computer systems capable of, and the methods include steps for, collecting and analyzing a plurality of spot-designated electronic trades of a financial product that is traded with respect to a reference price of a reference financial product. The systems and methods determine a common spot for multiple electronic trades including one or more electronic trades of the financial product and one or more associated electronic trades of the reference financial product, and distribute instructions for the multiple electronic trades to be executed at prices controlled by the common spot. Some such trading systems, and related methods, are capable of determining multiple common spots for different electronic trades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Christian Adam Bruner, Justin Daniel Peterson, Ian Stocks
  • Publication number: 20180033083
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments that provides the ability to manage customer credit limits, assess credit risks, and provide clearing certainty of trades. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of assessing credit risk, obtaining clearing certainty from a clearing member prior to trade execution, and providing notices of the existence or absence of clearing certainty with regard to particular trade requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Elisabeth Kirby, Kevin Hill, Ian Stocks
  • Patent number: 9786006
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments that provides the ability to manage customer credit limits, assess credit risks, and provide clearing certainty of trades. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of assessing credit risk, obtaining clearing certainty from a clearing member prior to trade execution, and providing notices of the existence or absence of clearing certainty with regard to particular trade requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Tradeweb Markets LLC
    Inventors: Elisabeth Kirby, Kevin Hill, Ian Stocks
  • Publication number: 20160140660
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments, and in particular for clearing odd lots, that provides the ability to receive, manage, match, and supervise orders. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of entering orders for desired positions, monitor the status of open positions, and obtain data in connection order requests. The trading platform is also capable of matching orders and sending orders to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Rupert Warmington, Ian Stocks, James W. Dale
  • Publication number: 20140279371
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments, and in particular for clearing odd lots, that provides the ability to receive, manage, match, and supervise orders. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of entering orders for desired positions, monitor the status of open positions, and obtain data in connection order requests. The trading platform is also capable of matching orders and sending orders to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Tradeweb Markets LLC
    Inventors: Rupert WARMINGTON, Ian Stocks, James W. Dale
  • Publication number: 20130254089
    Abstract: A trading platform for trading financial instruments that provides the ability to manage customer credit limits, assess credit risks, and provide clearing certainty of trades. In an exemplary embodiment, the trading platform includes computer software modules and provides graphical user interfaces to handle the process of assessing credit risk, obtaining clearing certainty from a clearing member prior to trade execution, and providing notices of the existence or absence of clearing certainty with regard to particular trade requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Tradeweb Markets, LLC
    Inventors: Elisabeth Kirby, Kevin Hill, Ian Stocks
  • Patent number: 7158990
    Abstract: A data format description from which encoders and decoders can be automatically generated. The data format description includes data components that represent a field of the data object as a description of the field and a tag. On decoding, the decoder decodes the field's value and produces an XML element that contains the value and the tag from the data component. On encoding, the encoder uses the tag to locate the XML element and encodes the value in the data object. Also included in the data format description are attributes and control statements An object, its XML representation, and the encoders and decoders may be combined to produce self-describing data objects in which a modification of the XML representation automatically results in a modification of the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Dongbai Guo, Ian Stocks, Susan Mavris