Efficient Markets Corporation Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140188525 | SYSTEM FOR APPRAISING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES - A method and system of appraising a life insurance or annuity product includes receiving a request for a life insurance or annuity product and information about a party requesting the life insurance or annuity product; preparing a bid solicitation for the life insurance or annuity product based on the request and information and transmitting the bid solicitation to a plurality of product carriers; a plurality of product carriers submitting initial proposals for providing the life insurance or annuity product; generating ratings for the initial proposals, respectively; and generating appraisals for the initial proposals; and informing the product carriers of the decision. | 07-03-2014 |
20140172469 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING INSURANCE PRODUCTS - A method for evaluating and scoring insurance products by interfacing with illustration engines relating to insurance products. The method includes calculating a series of cash flows for the proposed policy by applying a decrement factor to the set of values; calculating an internal rate of return for the proposed policy from the series of cash flows, and a statistical distribution of a plurality of internal rate of returns of a proposed policy for each of the one or more insurance products; determining a value for a quantitative scoring component for the proposed policy based on a comparison of the internal rate of return for the proposed policy to a quantitative factor; and obtaining an over score for the proposed policy by combining a plurality of values for each of a plurality of scoring components. | 06-19-2014 |
20130117049 | SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING AND SOLVING FOR INSURANCE PRODUCTS - A system for evaluating and scoring software products in which illustration engines relating to insurance products are run based on a common set of inputs. The illustration engines output a set of output metrics which are common to all illustration engines. The output metrics of products selected for comparison or evaluation are mathematically combined with each other and with the corresponding metrics of from all other illustration engines to determine a score which can be used to compare quickly and accurately the selected product against all other products in the database. The score may be determined by a weighted average in which the weights assigned to output metrics are adjustable at the user's discretion. | 05-09-2013 |