Patents by Inventor Stanley Thomas Raatz

Stanley Thomas Raatz 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).

  • Fixed income market model system
    Patent number: 8799140
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating financial interactions relating to fixed income securities. In one aspect, a computer-based method for facilitating a transfer of a fixed income security includes receiving an indication from a computer-based interface device that a initiating party seeks a counterparty for a financial transaction involving the transfer of the fixed income security, accessing data in an electronic database relating to a plurality of potential counterparties for the financial transaction and assigning to one or more of the plurality of potential counterparties an indication as to likelihood that the potential counterparty will engage in the financial transaction. The indication of likelihood that the potential counterparty will engage in the financial transaction is based on the data in the electronic database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Bloomberg Finance L.P.
    Inventors: James Toffee, Frank DiMarco, Stanley Thomas Raatz, William J. Gartland
  • FIXED INCOME SECURITIES MARKET MODEL
    Publication number: 20140207651
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating financial interactions relating to fixed income securities. In one aspect, a computer-based method for facilitating a transfer of a fixed income security includes receiving an indication from a computer-based interface device that a initiating party seeks a counterparty for a financial transaction involving the transfer of the fixed income security, accessing data in an electronic database relating to a plurality of potential counterparties for the financial transaction and assigning to one or more of the plurality of potential counterparties an indication as to likelihood that the potential counterparty will engage in the financial transaction. The indication of likelihood that the potential counterparty will engage in the financial transaction is based on the data in the electronic database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: BLOOMBERG FINANCE L.P.
    Inventors: James W. Toffey, Frank Dimarco, Stanley Thomas Raatz, William Gartland