Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Reexamination Certificate
2002-11-20
2009-11-24
Trammell, James P (Department: 3694)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
C705S035000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07624062
ABSTRACT:
The disclosed embodiments provide a system and method for automatically generating a composite contract characterized by at least one parameter. A first subset of eligible component contracts is identified from a set of available component contracts wherein each of the available component contracts is characterized by at least one attribute. A second subset of component contracts is then selected from the first subset to generate the composite contract.
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Kelly Matthew J.
McDonald Richard J.
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Katz James L.
Swartz Jamie H
Trammell James P
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