MORGAN STANLEY Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160104166 | COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNT DATABASE ACCESS TOOL - A computerized method of identifying accounts stored in a database of an account management system, for review under jurisdictionally relevant CIP/AML/KYC requirements is described, as is a computerized account database access tool having a data extraction module, an inclusion rules module, an exclusion rules module and a merge and aggregate module. | 04-14-2016 |
20160098654 | DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS TOOL - A data quality analysis tool and method for determining the business impact of a data set utilizing weighting and rule priority. The data quality analysis tool including a Rules Engine and a Scoring Engine. The Scoring Engine is configured to i) for each specific rule that has been met, determine a business impact score, ii) apply a weighting factor to each of the business impact scores to obtain a weighted business impact for each of the at least one specific rules, and iii) compute priority of the weighted business impact scores into a total business impact score. | 04-07-2016 |
20150294409 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING OFFERINGS OF SECURITIES - Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for offering a security to potential investors. In various embodiments, a plurality of bids may be received on the security. The bids may be divided by investors into a plurality of investor segments. One of the investor segments may comprise potential investors who are customers of the issuer of the securities. The shares of the offering may be divided into a plurality of tranches where each of the tranches corresponds to one of the investor segments. Shares in a first tranche may be allocated to the corresponding investor segment according to a first allocation method. Shares in a second tranche may be allocated to the corresponding investor segment according to a second allocation method. | 10-15-2015 |
20140280799 | MANAGING VIRTUAL COMPUTING SERVICES - Computer-implemented systems and methods for managing virtual computing services. A service interface may receive from an administrative user an instruction indicating a configuration change for a first virtual computing service. A plurality of agents comprises a leader agent and at least one other agent. The leader agent may assign to the at least one other agent a plurality of jobs for implementing the configuration change. The at least one other agent may execute at least one of the plurality of jobs, where executing the at least one of the plurality of jobs comprises modifying a configuration of a virtual desktop site associated with the first virtual computing service. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279826 | DATA FEEDS PLATFORM - A data feeds platform, comprising a data feed using a data feed protocol. The data feed protocol comprises, a feed header defining at least one identification attribute, a data header defining a data structure comprising data nodes, each data node corresponding to a subset of the data, and a data section, the data section storing the data according to the data structure. A plurality of heterogeneous data protocols is stored. A data input is received in one of the plurality of heterogeneous data protocols. The data input is converted to the data feed protocol, creating the data feed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140208083 | MULTI-THREADED LOGGING - A data slot may be reserved for a first thread selected from a plurality of threads executed by a computer system. A memory of the computer system may comprise a plurality of log files and a next free data slot pointer. Each log file may comprise a plurality of data slots and each of the data slots may be of a common size. Reserving the data slot for the first thread may comprise attempting to perform a first atomic operation to write to a first data slot pointed to by a current value of the next free data slot pointer an indication that the first data slot is filled. If the first atomic operation is successful, the computer system may update the next free data slot pointer to point to a second data slot positioned sequentially after the first data slot. If the first atomic operation is unsuccessful, the computer system may analyze the second data slot. | 07-24-2014 |
20140046873 | FACILITATING THE OWNERSHIP OF SOLAR-POWERED ELECTRICITY-GENERATING SYSTEMS - Methods of facilitating a party's purchase of an electricity-generating solar power system are disclosed. The methods may comprise entering into, by the lender, an agreement with the party whereby, in exchange for a payment amount paid by the lender to a seller of the solar power system, the lender owns and is to sell up to 100% of the electricity generated by the party's solar power system after installation for a contract time period defined by the agreement. The methods may also comprise paying, by the lender, the payment amount to the seller for the solar power system. The contract time period may extend, for example, until sales of the electricity by the lender after installation generate an aggregate payment amount that meets or exceeds a specified level. The contract time period or unit quantity might also be fixed. The lender may also receive environmental attributes from the party. | 02-13-2014 |
20130317883 | COMPANY AND CONTACT INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A user interface for providing information regarding a subject company to a user. The user interface may comprise a company tile, which may have an indicator of the subject company. A state of the company tile, such as, for example, its color, may indicate a property of the subject company. The user interface may also comprise a financial information module displaying financial information regarding the subject company, and a subject individual module displaying information regarding a subject individual related to the subject company. According to various embodiments, the user interface may also include a navigation toolbar including a second company tile comprising an indicator of a second company. Selecting the second company tile may cause the second company to become a new subject company. | 11-28-2013 |
20130239123 | MILESTONE MANAGER - A milestone manager receives a milestone message from a first application. The milestone message includes information associated with a periodic event. The milestone manager applies a rule based process on the milestone message information and sends a trigger to a second application in response to the milestone. The trigger initiates processing of the second application in response to the milestone. | 09-12-2013 |
20130179400 | INTELLIGENT DATA PUBLISHING FRAMEWORK FOR COMMON DATA UPDATES IN LARGE SCALE NETWORKS OF HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS - A computerized data publishing method in which an action is received from a source. The action results in a data state change that must be propagated to multiple heterogeneous computer devices, in a manner that maintains the consistency of data among multiple heterogeneous computer devices. A record is saved in storage reflecting the data state change. The update process updates the impacted computer devices with the modified data using a publishing mechanism, and receives an indicator of whether the updating succeeded or failed. If the updating failed, a retry of the updating is initiated using the publishing mechanism. If all the updating of all of the impacted computer devices succeeded, the operation ends. | 07-11-2013 |
20130097223 | COMPUTER NETWORK ASSET MANAGEMENT - An apparatus is described including a central connection manager having a contact rules engine, the contact rules engine being configured to allow contact rule creation and to provide contact rule management such that created contact rules will apply to each of the multiple distributed applications and servers owned by each of the multiple distributed applications. A computerized method of managing contact information for deployed applications and deployed servers in a geographically distributed network is also described. The method involves maintaining an ownership relationship between the deployed applications and the deployed servers such that every server is owned by at least one application, maintaining a centralized repository of contact rules and managing the contact rules such that when a rule parameter of a specific rule changes, the change will be applied to all impacted deployed applications. | 04-18-2013 |
20130073938 | NETWORK-BASED DATA CONSOLIDATION, CALCULATION AND REPORTING ENGINE - Methods and computerized apparatus for shared business modeling involving multiple spreadsheet-based business models in a network of computers, report generation involving consolidation from at least two different spreadsheet-based business models as well as report generation involving multiple different spreadsheet-based business models are described. | 03-21-2013 |
20130067226 | SECURE WILDCAD SEARCHABLE DATABASE - A system and method for providing access to data stored in encrypted form in a physically non-secure database without compromising security of the data in the physically non-secure database is disclosed. A representation of at least some of the data from the database in unencrypted form is stored in volatile memory associated with the server. The wildcard search is performed on the representation. Search results are displayed to the user to allow the user to select database contents to be retrieved. The user's selection is retrieved from the database and decrypted. Finally, the unencrypted selection results are provided to the user. | 03-14-2013 |
20120311392 | AUTOMATED REGRESSION TESTING INTERMEDIARY - An automated regression testing intermediary configured to accept a first set of automated test instructions from an application testing tool. A data structure comprising predefined fields is configured so when a test instruction is received from the application testing tool, a command will be used to identify at least one field of the data structure that will be populated with a parameter test instruction. A library of generic target automated test instructions is provided. Each generic test instruction has a form and format different from the received test instruction. The intermediary is configured to select generic target automated test instructions from the library and populate selected generic target automated test instructions with parameters obtained from the data structure such that the resulting created target-specific automated test instructions can be used to regression test the application under test. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311117 | Object Pipeline-Based Virtual Infrastructure Management - A computer-implemented system and method for managing a virtualized infrastructure including receiving an input including a string of multiple commands and arguments, which will cause a transformational action to be performed on the virtualized infrastructure. Based on the string, instructions are retrieved which will implement actions called for by the commands in combination with the arguments associated with the commands. The retrieved instructions are executed to populate a partition of an object pipeline with virtual infrastructure entities based upon a first of the commands. Based upon a second of the commands and an argument, at least one entity is removed from the partition. Based upon a third of the commands, the transformational action is performed on the reduced population of the entities in the partition. | 12-06-2012 |
20120265571 | MATCHING RESOURCES OF A SECURITIES RESEARCH DEPARTMENT TO ACCOUNTS OF THE DEPARTMENT - Systems and methods for allocating limited resources of a securities research department to accounts of the department are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the system includes an account scoring module and a resource matching module. The account scoring module is for generating a score for each account, and the resource matching module is for matching the resources of the department to the accounts based on the scores for each account. | 10-18-2012 |
20120047112 | RECORDS ARCHIVE DISPOSITION SYSTEM - A system and method for record archive disposition is implemented with a computer system comprising one or more computer processors operatively connected to memory. Archival records are stored in memory, each archival record being associated with at least one metadata attribute. At least one or more legal holds are stored in memory, each legal hold having legal hold metadata attributes. A deletion candidate list is generated with at least one of the processors for at least one record type by including on the deletion candidate list archival records identified as having one or more archival record metadata attributes corresponding to the at least one record type, and excluding from the deletion candidate list identified archival records if a selected set of legal hold metadata attributes for at least one legal hold corresponds to at least a subset of metadata attributes for the identified archival records. Archival records included on the deletion candidate list are deleted from memory. | 02-23-2012 |
20120042354 | Entitlement conflict enforcement - Various embodiments are directed to entitlements clearance. For example, an entitlement clearance request may be received from a provisioning application. The entitlement clearance request may comprise an indication of a subject entitlement and an indication of a subject user. An indication of user characteristics describing the subject user and an indication of existing entitlements held by the subject user may be received. A plurality of entitlements conflict rules may be applied to the existing entitlements, the subject entitlement and the user characteristics to determine whether an entitlements conflict exists in view of the subject entitlement. In addition, a completion indication of whether the entitlements conflict exists in view of the subject entitlement may be returned. Provided that the entitlements conflict exists, the completion indication may comprise an indication of at least one entitlements conflict rule selected from the plurality of entitlements conflict rules that would be violated by the subject entitlement. | 02-16-2012 |
20110071933 | System For Surveillance Of Financial Data - A system and method is disclosed for surveillance of financial data, comprising initiating a financial data surveillance module executable on a processor of a financial data surveillance computer system. Source data is retrieved from one or more data sources of a remote data server on which the source data is stored, the source data including transactions for a specific date and identification of the entity and account that each transaction is associated with. A metrics summary packet is generated for a particular account and the specific date, the metrics summary packet including one or more transaction classifiables that satisfy a predefined set of metric definition rules. A subjects packet is generated for the particular account that identifies the entities associated with the particular account, and a subjects-metrics packet is generated for the particular account by combining subject classifiables and metric classifiables within the subjects packet and metric summary packet. An aggregation packet is generated for an entity associated with the particular account, the aggregation packet including subject and metric classifiables of the subjects-metrics packet that satisfy a predefined set of aggregation rules. An evaluation score is generated for the entity by passing classifiables of the aggregation packet through a rules engine including a predefined set of scenario rules to determine if the aggregation classifiables are indicative of suspicious financial activity. A work item is generated if the evaluation score is indicative of suspicious financial activity. | 03-24-2011 |
20100262439 | System And Method For Pricing Default Insurance - A system for modeling a basket of securities containing a plurality of securities is provided and includes a default/recovery model database for storing default/recovery data regarding the plurality of securities. Also included is a default simulation engine for calculating a default time for at least one of the plurality of securities based on the default/recovery data. Finally, a cash flow engine is included for generating cash flows for the basket of securities based on the default times. | 10-14-2010 |
20100217772 | COMMODITIES FRAMEWORK - Various embodiments are directed to methods and systems for presenting an interface to a user. For example, a computer may receive a request for content originating from a browser application executing on a client machine in electronic communication with the at least one server. The request may identify a first commodity and a first event associated with the commodity and may comprise a Universal Resource Locator (URL) identifying the first commodity. The computer may parse a commodity descriptor file to identify a first service associated with the first commodity and the first event. The commodity descriptor file may comprise definitions of a plurality of commodities and wherein the plurality of commodities comprises the first commodity. In addition, the computer may generate a service call requesting the first service, and execute the at least one service associated with the first commodity and the first event. The at least one service may query the data source to retrieve data describing the commodity and construct a model of the commodity according to the data. | 08-26-2010 |
20100145757 | MATCHING RESOURCES OF A SECURITIES RESEARCH DEPARTMENT TO ACCOUNTS OF THE DEPARTMENT - Systems and methods for allocating limited resources of a securities research department to accounts of the department are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the system includes an account scoring module and a resource matching module. The account scoring module is for generating a score for each account, and the resource matching module is for matching the resources of the department to the accounts based on the scores for each account. | 06-10-2010 |
20100138664 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE PLACEMENT DOCUMENTS - Methods of providing a private placement document to a potential investor in a private placement. The methods may comprise the step of generating the private placement document in an encrypted electronic format. The private placement document may include a unique identifier. The methods may also comprise the steps of providing the private placement document to the potential investor, and recording the unique identifier. | 06-03-2010 |
20100094743 | LOW LATENCY TRADING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for transmitting trade orders from a client trading engine to an exchange where the trades are executed. The system may comprise a low latency system in communication with the client trading engine and the exchange server(s). The low latency system is for receiving trade orders from the client trading engine, performing one or a limited number of pre-order risk checks on the trade orders, and, when the trade orders pass the risk checks, transmitting the trade order to the exchange server(s). The system also comprises a post-order risk checking data center in communication with the low latency system via a network. The post-order risk checking data center is for performing post-order risk checks on the trade orders after the low latency system transmits the trade orders to the exchange server(s). | 04-15-2010 |
20090327924 | INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING CORRELATION - Methods and systems described herein may comprise determining, for each of a plurality of potential related companies, a correlation factor of a related company metric of the potential related company relative to a focal company metric and selecting at least one related company having a correlation factor relative to the focal company within a first range. The methods may also comprise displaying a focal company field listing an identifier of the focal company and displaying a correlation field listing identifiers for the at least one related company, where certain of the identifiers comprise a hyperlink. When one of the hyperlinks is activated, the company corresponding to the activated hyperlink may become the new focal company. The correlation field may list identifiers for at least one new related company having a related company metric with a correlation factor relative to the focal company metric of the new focal company within the first range. | 12-31-2009 |
20090326973 | INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING CORRELATION - Methods and systems for providing a user interface to a user may comprise finding a degree of similarity between each of a plurality of potential similar companies and a focal company. From the plurality of potential similar companies, at least one similar company may be selected having a degree of similarity with the focal company that is greater than a first threshold. An identifier of the focal company may be listed in a focal company field. Identifiers for the at least one similar company may be listed in a similar company field. Certain of the identifiers listed in the similar company field may include a hyperlink which, when activated by a user, causes a computer system to list the company corresponding to the activated hyperlink as a new focal company in the focal company field; determine at least one new similar company having a degree of similarity with the new focal company that is greater than the first threshold; and display the at least one new similar company at the similar company field. | 12-31-2009 |
20090222385 | System and methods for modeling a multiplicative index - Computer-implemented methods for valuing a derivative based on the BMA rate: the methods may comprise generating a model of the BMA/LIBOR ratio as a function of the LIBOR index, a stochastic noise function, and a seasonality process. The methods may also comprise solving the model for at least one value of the LIBOR index, and estimating a value of the derivative given the solution of the model. The value of the derivative may then be stored. | 09-03-2009 |
20090172518 | METRIC PORTAL - Various aspects are directed to a computer system for implementing an interface for presenting metric data to a user, the computer system may comprise a storage medium, which may, in turn, comprise a sitemap. The sitemap may define an organization of portal pages and wherein each portal page comprises at least one region defining a metric data type and a metric data presentation. The computer system may also comprise at least one processor configured to implement a controller unit. The controller unit may be configured to query a data source to retrieve a first data collection, where the first data collection comprises metric data of a first business context. The controller unit may also be configured to render a first portal page selected from the organization of portal pages according to the first data collection. In response to a request for a portal page change, the controller unit may be configured to render a second portal page selected from the organization of portal pages according to the first data collection. Also, in response to a request for a business context change, the controller unit may be configured to query the data source for a second data collection comprising metric data of a second business context; and render the second portal page according to the second data collection. | 07-02-2009 |
20090157545 | FACILITATING THE OWNERSHIP OF SOLAR-POWERED ELECTRICITY-GENERATING SYSTEMS - Methods of facilitating a party's purchase of an electricity-generating solar power system are disclosed. The methods may comprise entering into, by the lender, an agreement with the party whereby, in exchange for a payment amount paid by the lender to a seller of the solar power system, the lender owns and is to sell up to 100% of the electricity generated by the party's solar power system after installation for a contract time period defined by the agreement. The methods may also comprise paying, by the lender, the payment amount to the seller for the solar power system. The contract time period may extend, for example, until sales of the electricity by the lender after installation generate an aggregate payment amount that meets or exceeds a specified level. The contract time period or unit quantity might also be fixed. The lender may also receive renewable energy certificates and any other environmental attributes from the party. | 06-18-2009 |
20090132412 | Price improvement crossing system - A method provided for matching a buy order having a buy order price and a sell order having a sell order price that includes the step of determining if the buy order price is not less than the sell order price. Next, an NBBO price range is identified and it is determined whether the buy order price and the sell order price are within the NBBO range. A midpoint between the buy order price and the sell order price is then calculated. Finally, the buy order and the sell order is matched at the midpoint if the buy order price is not less than the sell order price and the buy order price and the sell order price are within the NBBO range. | 05-21-2009 |
20090119312 | Taxonomy tool - In one general aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a system for describing information. This system may comprise at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to receive a taxonomy that may comprising a metric hierarchy and a plurality of entity hierarchies. The at least one processor may also be configured to display an indication of a metric selected from the metric hierarchy. In addition, the at least one processor may be configured to display a representation of at least a portion of a second hierarchy selected from the plurality of entity hierarchies. The representation may comprise an indication of a branch of the second hierarchy and an indication of a relationship between the branch of the second hierarchy and the metric. | 05-07-2009 |
20090077089 | COMPUTER OBJECT TAGGING - Methods for classifying computer objects. The methods may comprise receiving a tag for a first computer object. The tag may comprise at least two nested categories describing the first computer object. The methods may also comprise updating a hierarchy of categories for computer objects to include the at least two nested categories describing the computer object. In addition, the methods may comprise displaying a graphical representation of the hierarchy of categories, and displaying an indication of computer objects having tags comprising a first category when an indication of the first category is received. | 03-19-2009 |
20080222022 | Pair trading system and method - A method is provided for fulfilling a pair trade request and includes the steps of receiving a plurality of pair trade requests; executing a transaction for a first portion of one of the plurality of pair trade requests and matching a second portion of the one of the plurality of pair trade requests against another of the plurality of pair trade requests. | 09-11-2008 |